"Campaign to cancel GM
trials"
Dorset Echo, June 15, 2000
(Dorset Echo web site - click here)
Campaigners are calling on planners to halt genetically modified crops trials in Dorset.
The Wessex branch of the Natural Law Party says West Dorset District Council should act over the GM maize growing at Over Compton, in the the north of the county.
The party claims that because the trials constitute research and not agriculture, planning consent is needed.
Mark Griffiths, a former Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the party in West Dorset, said: "People are angry that the crop has been planted before they have had a chance to express their views. People want to see a GM-free Dorset".
More
details - original NLP Press Release
Download
briefing paper on Chardon LL - the GM maize being grown
at Over Compton - PDF format
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to NLP Wessex GM page
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