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Come make history with us at a special conference

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The Institute of Science in Society

Science Society Sustainability

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Come make history with us at a special conference

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GM Crops: Do We Need Them? Are They Safe?

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Launching

 

***** Independent Science Panel on GM *****

 

And publication of their report

 

The Case for A GM Free Sustainable World

The Panel includes Britain's best-loved botanist, broadcaster, writer and

campaigner for Mother Earth, David Bellamy OBE among dozens of other prominent

scientists in eight countries around the world. Their report is the strongest,

most extensive dossier of evidence to support their call for a ban on GM crops

and a comprehensive shift to organic sustainable agriculture

 

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GM Crops: Do We Need Them? Are They Safe?

 

May 10, 2003

 

Franklin-Wilkins Building, Auditorium B5, King's College, Waterloo, London

 

Programme

 

13:30 Welcome and Introduction Edward Goldsmith Founding Editor, The Ecologist

Why an Independent Science Panel?

 

13:40 David Bellamy OBE Botanist, Broadcaster, writer and campaigner for Mother

Earth " Ah! How terrible is knowledge to the man whom knowledge profits not " ,

Tiresias, circa 500 BC

 

14:10 Arpad Pusztai Private consultant; formerly Rowett Research Institute,

Scotland What can Science Say on the Safety of GM Foods?

 

14:40 Stanley Ewen Consultant Histopathologist, Grampian University Hospitals

Trust Eating Growth Factors? No Thanks

 

15:10 Malcolm Hooper Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University of

Sunderland Eating Pesticides too, with GM Foods

 

15:40 Tea break

 

16:00 Gundula Azeez Policy Manager, Soil Association Can GM co-exist with

Non-GM?

 

16:30 Vyvyan Howard Toxico-pathologist, University of Liverpool

Anti-Precautionary Risk Assessment

 

17:00 Brian John Geomorphologist, environmental scientist and part of

coordinating group, GM Free Cymru Fit for Public Consumption?

 

17:30 Mae-Wan Ho Director, Institute of Science in Society and Visiting

Professor of Organic Physics, Catania University The Scientific Myth that

Launched a Thousand Companies

 

18:00 General Discussion

 

18:30 Close

 

Sponsored by The Ecologist, Institute of Science in Society, Scientists for

Global Responsibility, The Soil Association, Third World Network and GM Free

Cymru

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King's College Waterloo Campus & St. Thomas Campus, London

 

Full details plus map here http://www.i-sis.org.uk/temp/GM-ISP.php

 

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