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GM and Dairy Cow Feed: Steps to a GM-free Future for the UK Dairy Industry

GM and Dairy Cow Feed: Steps to a GM-free Future for the UK Dairy Industry illustrates how the UK dairy industry can be both GE-free and independent of imports in the future by growing protein-rich crops such as lupins for cattle feed.

The Dugong, or Sea Cow

The Dugong, or Sea Cow

The Dugong, or Sea Cow

Steller's Sea Cow – driven to extinction

The Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was a large sirenian mammal, which grew up to 10 metres long and weighed between 6 and 8 tonnes. It was discovered in 1741 near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea by German biologist Georg Steller, who was travelling with the explorer Vitus Bering. Just 28 years later, the species was extinct. It is the first recorded example of humans driving a marine species to extinction.

Detail view of organic potatoes grown in Peter Nilsson's farm. He and his family have a dairy herd of about 80 cows and 125 hectares of grazing and cropping land. Since 2002, all their farm produce is certified as organic under KRAV (the Swedish organic label). They grow potatoes, maize, broccoli, beans, lettuce, carrots, and squash.

The farmers

In the Ukraine, 18,000km2 of agricultural land was contaminated, but the forests were hardest hit. Forty percent of the woods are contaminated, totalling 35,000km2. Many of the inhabitants of the area cotinue to eat fruits and vegetables from their own gardens and they also continue fishing and gathering mushrooms and berries. This is what they are used to doing, even if it means that their intake of radioactive elements is two to five times higher than is acceptable.

Cattle and Soya

When we think of the Amazon, most of us picture lush tropical forest and an abundance of wildlife. The last things we imagine are vast plains of soya and pastures of grazing cows.

British GM maize plan 'disaster'

Planting genetically modified (GM) crops is a risk that isn't wanted or needed anywhere in the world. The general public in the UK and even the UK Government's own scientists and economists have all said no to GM.

GE soya imports to Italy exposed reject as part of Greenpeace global action against GMOs

The Greenpeace ship "Esperanza" this morning intercepted the Panama-registered bulk carrier, Keoyang Majesty, carrying 40,000 thousands tonnes of Argentinean Genetically Engineered (GE) soya to demand an end to the massive contamination of the Italian food supply by GE soya imports.