Resource List:
information for action about genetic engineering
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General Information and Advice
- Tips for setting up a local group - and handy contacts - UPDATED
- "What to do if there's a GM test site near you" - step by step guide to different campaigning methods - UPDATED
- "My first little book of GM crop decontamination" - excellent guide to covert crop actions, available from 01803 866406 - NEW!
- Dates for your Diary - a monthly list of calendar dates - NEW!
- The GEN List of Damaged Trial Sites in the UK - a regularly updated list of sites which have been deliberately damaged or withdrawn - NEW!
- Legal advice and briefings on procedure is available from Activists Legal Project: 01865 243772; activistslegal@gn.apc.org
- Earth First Action Update - a monthly round up of ecological and other direct action from around Britain. Costs £5 for 10 issues, from efactionupdate@bigfoot.com/ 01603 219811
- Schnews - a weekly round up of news and activities of ecological and social issues. Available from schnews@brighton.co.uk.
Newsletters
- Genetix Update - quarterly newsletter: news, dates and contacts. £5 a year from TOGG; 01803 840098; mailto:info@togg.org.uk
- Splice - produced 6 times a year, costing between £20 - £85 from Genetics Forum: www.geneticsforum.org.uk
E-mail lists
- gm-action - focussing on rapid ideas for action, e.g. letters; meetings. To subscribe e-mail majordomo@foe.co.uk and put subscribe gm-action in the subject
- ngin@icsenglish.com - news and information on companies
Campaign Materials/Resources
- Banners - the banner you want might already be painted, or we can give advice on painting them yourself
- Lifecycles - pedal powered genetics roadshow, costumes and cinema. www.lifecycles.uk.cf or 07050 618445
- Images - from biohazard symbols and cartoons to photos of past actions, if there's a specific image you need for a leaflet, there's a chance we'll have it on the GEN computer
- Genes on Toast - outline for street theatre
Stickers
- No Patents on Life - four designs - miffy; leaf; barcode; DNA strip
Bookmarks
- Primal Seeds - untangling ourselves from the monocult - launch for the website; explains its content
Postcards
GEN postcards,
based on well known paintings.- Put your foot down for real food and farming - joint leaflet and postcard to Tony Blair - NEW!
- GM coffee: We don't want it; Don't sell it - postcard to give to retailers, from Action Aid; 0207 561 7561 - NEW!
- GM Inside - GM animal feed postcard to store managers
- Five Year Freeze - postcard to MPs asking for a moratorium
- Who's involved in GMOs near you? - launch postcard for GM info website
Tapes
- Genetic Engineering and the Patenting of Life - a talk by Luke Anderson, available from TOGG; 01803 840098; info@togg.org.uk
Videos
- Stop The Crop - an inspiring summary of crop action in the UK by Undercurrents. Copies available from GEN for cost price plus p+p
Leaflets
- Genetic Engineering Network - an introduction to the GEN office, what it does, and key contacts - NEW!
- "GM foods: the jury is still out" - introductory leaflet from Five Year Freeze - NEW!
- Human Genetics Alert - introduction to the issues and the organisation - NEW!
- Genetic Engineering Under Scrutiny - General GeneWatch leaflet - 01298 871898
- MORI/GeneWatch Poll Results - Details of the June 1998 opinion poll - 01298 891898
- Genetic Hazard! At a Supermarket Near You
- TOGG Leaflets - Useful, easy introduction to the key issues. Four subjects: Farm Scale Trials; Veg and Freedom; GM Animal Feed; Life, the Universe, and Genetic Engineering
- Don't let the Scientists bring out the Animal in you - BUAV leaflet about GE and xenotransplantation
- Genetic Engineering: Don't Swallow It! - myths and facts about GM. Slightly out of date but a good intro
- Beware: Hazardous Food Ahead - introductory leaflet on GE Foods, how to avoid them and what you can do about it
- Look what the Gene Dictators are growing just for you - leaflet by the soil association
Books
There are many books available, see your local bookshop, or ring GEN for advice. These are five new books, all available from Zed Books, 0207 837 4014, apart from the last two - ring GEN for how to get hold of a copy or try your local bookshop
- Redesigning life - summary of the worldwide challenge to GE (edited by Brian Tokar) - NEW!
- Brave New Seeds - the threat of GM crops to farmers (Bob Brac and Franck Seuret) - NEW!
- Stolen Harvest - the hijacking of the global food supply (Vandana Shiva) - NEW! vFrom the Ground Up - rethinking industrial agriculture (Norberg Hodge, Goering and Page) - NEW!
- Trust Us, We're Experts - How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future (John Stauber) - NEW!
- Genetic Engineering, Food and the Environment - a good introduction (Luke Anderson)
Websites
There are many useful websites, too many for this list, so here's a few of them. Try their links pages for more.
- www.geneticsaction.org.uk - Genetic Engineering Network, with full list of GM trial sites in UK
- www.togg.org.uk - Totnes Genetics Group
- www.animalfeed.org.uk - issues and action ideas about GM animal feed
- www.gm-info.org.uk - Corporate Watch, briefings and map of GM sites in UK
- www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cahge - Human Genetics Alert campaign
- www.groundup.org - ASEED Europe's excellent links and introduction
- www.genewatch.org - briefings galore!
- www.primalseeds.org - biodiversity, seed saving guides, guerilla gardening, news and discussion
- www.geneticsaction.org.uk/testsites - the UK test site list, regularly updated
- www.ukabc.org - websites with great briefings on trade, IPR's and agricultural biodiversity
- www.grain.org - websites with great briefings on trade, IPR's and agricultural biodiversity
- www.rafi.org - websites with great briefings on trade, IPR's and agricultural biodiversity
Information about Alternatives
- What's wrong with supermarkets? - critique leaflet about supermarkets and what you can do
- 10 Reason's to grow organic fruit and vegetables - part of HDRA's grow your own campaign; leaflet
- The Seed Search is on! - introduction and guide to seed saving; leaflet
- The Cook's Potato Guide - fold out poster on different varieties and how to grow your own
- The Cook's Garden Planner - fold out illustrated chart on what to grow and when
- Guerilla Gardening - you don't have to have a big garden to grow your own: check out www.primalseeds.org for a guide
Briefings and Reports
Many of these briefings are also available from GEN
- Action Aid: 0207 561 7561
- Syngenta: Switching off farmers' rights?
- Citizen's jury (report on citizen's jury on GM in India)
- Crops and robbers (exposes patents on life)
- World Trade Organisation: prescribing food insecurity
- AstraZeneca and its genetic research: feeding the world or fuelling hunger?
- Robbing coffee's cradle - GM coffee and it's threat to poor farmers
- Corporate Watch: 01865 791391
- Animal Feed & GE: Other major animal feed manufacturers
- Animal Feed & GE: BOCM Pauls
- Animal Feed & GE: Dalgety Agriculture
- From test tube to tummy - GMO supply chain
- Archer Daniels Midland - supermarket to the world
- Cash cows and Bull markets - finance behind GM crops
- Aventis
- Cargill - arrogance incorporated
- The industry strikes back- functional foods good for Monsanto's health
- Control freaks - the GMO exporters
- Apocalypse later? - who's winning the biotech battle?
- Friends of the Earth: 0207 490 1555
- Critique of SCIMAC guidelines for GM Crops
- Farm Scale Trials of GM crops; in Depth
- GM Animal Feed
- GM Crops and Food
- Genewatch UK: 01298 871898 / www.genewatch.org
- Farmscale Trials of GM Crops:Answering the safety questions
- Genetically Modified Foods: Will Labelling Provide Choice?
- Genetic Engineering: A Review of Developments in 1998
- Leaking from the Lab? The contained use of GM Micro-Organisms in the UK
- Genetically Engineered Oilseed Rape: Agricultural Savior or New Form of Pollution?
- Privatising Knowledge, Patenting Genes
- Human Gene Therapy: A Cure for all ills
- GM Crops in the UK - Farmers Info Series
- GE A review of Developments in 2000
- Human Biocollections: Gene banking
- GM crops currently being field trialled in the UK (2001)
- Genetic Testing in Insurance and Employment: A new form of Discrimination - NEW!
- Syngenta - Switching off Farmer's Rights?
- Biotech, the Next Generation. Good for Whose Health?
- Overview of the Farm Scale Trials and factsheet on each crop
- Biological Weapons and the New Genetics
- Genetic Engineering: Can it feed the World?
- Patenting Genes - Stifling Research and Jeapordising Healthcare
- Designer Forests - The Development of GM Trees
- Greenpeace: 0207 865 8100
- Record Harvest - describes how GE technologies have increased poverty and hunger in Argentina. Record Harvest: 500k, pdf format.
- Supermarkets and Animal Feed - NEW!
- Non-GM Seed for Farmers - NEW!
- GM Farm Scale Trials - two versions, one two pages, one nine pages
- GM Wine - a guide (only available on website; www.greenpeace.org.uk)
- Shopper's guide to GM - informs shoppers what animal produce in which brands is GM
- GE Fish: Swimming against the Tide (only available on website; www.greenpeace.org)
- Pulp Fiction - GE Trees (only available on website; www.greenpeace.org)
- Green Party: 0207 272 4474
- Keep the Genetic Experiment out of out Schools - briefing and campaign pack
- Human Genetics Alert: 0207 704 6100
- Why should I be concerned about human genetics? - NEW!
- Non-reproductive Cloning
- The Sunshine Project: +1 512 494 0545
- The Biological Weapons Convention
- Risks of Using Biological Agents in Drug Eradication
- Biological Weapons and Genetic Technologies: Set of Three Briefings
- The Corner House: 01258 473795 / http://cornerhouse.icaap.org
- Briefing 10: Food? Health? Hope? Genetic Engineering and World Hunger
- Briefing 16: If Cloning is the Answer, What was the Question? Power and Decision-Making in the Geneticisation of Health
- Briefing 21: Genetic Dialectic: The Biological Politics of Genetically
Modified Trees
- Women's Environmental Network: 0208 481 9004
For individual Briefings, contact GEN. For a full pack, contact WEN - Genetic Engineering and the Threat to Farm Animals
- UK Addresses of Biotech Industry and Government
- What is Genetic Engineering
- Out of Control: Threats from Patents
- The Giant Green Salmon - Cautionary Tales
- Gene Foods
- Terminator Technology
- Other Briefings
- GE Cotton
- Feeding the Hungry Transnationals
Corporate Watch
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/genetics/genetics.htm
ETC Group
http://www.etcgroup.org/publications.asp
Five Year Freeze
http://www.fiveyearfreeze.org/indexb.htm
Friends of the Earth
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/real_food/resource/campaigners.html
Greenpeace UK
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/contentlookup.cfm?SitekeyParam=D-I&CFID=351999&CFTOKEN=95088536&MenuPoint=D
Genewatch
http://www.genewatch.org/
GM Watch
http://www.gmwatch.org/
Human Genetics Alert
http://www.hgalert.org/briefings/
Pesticide Action Network
http://www.pan-uk.org/pub31.htm
Polaris Institute
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/polaris_project/bio_justice/bio_justice_index.html
Greenpeace International
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/reports/index?campaign_id=3942
Totnes Genetics Group
http://www.togg.org.uk/resources.html
Women’s Environment Network
http://www.wen.org.uk/gen_eng/gmf.htm
Action Aid
http://www.actionaid.org/resources/foodrights/gmcrops.shtml
Soil Association
http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/Library?OpenForm