GE action kit

Help your school tuckshop, university canteen or local council go GE-free. Find out why GE foods are a threat to our farmers, our health and our environment. Download our DIY action kit with all the information and tools you need, to build a GE-free future.

You can download the whole kit in zipped format or if you have a slow connection just download the chapters you need.

GE action kit
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1. Introduction - About this kit
- Genetic engineering - a recipe for disaster
- Frequently asked questions
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2. GE in Australia - GE in the Australian environment
- The new law governing genetically modified organisms, Warren Kalinko, EDO
- Economic and environmental risks of introducing GE canola into Australia
- Labelling and approval of GE food
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3. Getting active - Help your local council become a GE-free zone
- Stopping GE in your own backyard
- GE-free Universities
- Contacts for others active on GE in Australia

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4. The True Food Campaign - A GE-free future starts in your trolley!
- GE-free food services
- GE animal feed
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- Supermarket Activist Kit
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5. More detailed information: 5.1 General - A user guide to GE terms and abbreviations
- Websites and books on GE
- Genetic Engineering: A Costly Risk
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5.2 Science - Genetic Engineering and Biological Complexity - Prof Peter Wills
- Unravelling the DNA Myth. The spurious foundation of genetic engineering - Prof Barry Commoner
- Roundup Ready Soya: incomplete data, missing evaluation and insufficient controls
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5.3 Environment - The End of the World as we know it: The environmental costs of genetic engineering
- Genetic pollution - a multiplying nightmare
- Environmental Dangers of Insect Resistant Bt Crops
- Bt Cotton in China - executive summary
- GE Canola - out of control in Canada
- Corn Under Threat - Mexico, centre of diversity, has been contaminated
- Glyphosate Fact Sheet
- Pulp Fiction - Genetically engineered trees
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5.4 Health - GE Foods and Human Health Safety Assessments - Dr Judy Carman, Public Health Association of Australia
- GE Food: Safe to Eat?
- Antibiotic Resistance in Genetically Engineered Plants
- Health and environmental risks of genetically modified soy
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5.5 Agriculture - GE crops - increasingly isolated as awareness and rejection grow
- Seeds of Doubt - Soil Association Report Briefing
- Recipes against Hunger
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5.6 Corporate Control - GE rice is fool's gold
- Food Dictators won't feed the world - they're part of the problem
- Stop Biopiracy and Tricky Patents
- Biopiracy.
- Genetic engineering, life patents and the manufacturing of scarcity - Rayyar Farhat, Aidwatch
- Colonising the seed. Genetic Engineering and Techno-Industrial - Agriculture - Gyorgy Scrinis, Friends of the Earth
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