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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Oppose the trial planting of GM Potatoes by BASF in South Cambridgeshire. More details
Submitted by Cambridge GM Concern of Cambridge Friends of the Earth – Deadline to sign up by: 20 May 2007 – Signatures: 106
More details from petition creator
Our grounds for opposing the trials are:
1. The possible safety impacts of Genetically Modified crops.
2. Contamination of non-GM crops by cross fertilisation with GM crops and the possible impact on organic farming.
3. The lack of demand for GM products, giving further impetus to adopting the Precautionary Principle.
4. The lack of need to genetically modify potatoes for Blight resistance, conventional plant breeding techniques having already developed Blight resistance in 20% of potato varieties.
5. The lack of care shown by DEFRA who defined much weaker conditions for the trials compared to the Irish government who rejected such trials.
Current signatories
Cambridge GM Concern, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Barbara Maidment
- Philip Glover
- Noemie DeGazio
- Stephen Forrest
- connery seery
- Paul.E
- Linda Kilpatrick
- Keith Garrett
- Vicks Luckie
- Fiona Tomlins
- Chris McLean
- Nadia Ming
- Rob Carlyle
- Eva Novotny
- Neil Ford
- Matt Clowes
- Ben Palmer
- Hamish Downer
- Tom Lord
- julie crick
- Joy Rutherford
- Chris McCabe
- matt lingley
- Ian Ralls
- sarah curtis
- Martin Haggerty
- Pam Bochel
- Graham Lingley
- Richard Stokes
- Chyarlotte Woodley
- tina macdonald
- Oliver Vowinckel
- Hiltrud Hall
- Joanne Whitehead
- Will Cooke
- Catherine Broome
- Nicholas Lajos Laszlo Kovacs
- Jill Marsden
- Jacqui Woodward-Smith
- Sarah Jenkins
- Adrian Jenkins
- Merrill Hardy
- Lee Matthews
- Fiona Riggall
- Cllr Philip Booth
- Evan Bowen-Jones
- Kaya Holcroft
- Nick Langley
- Emanuela Moreale
- David Malcolm Leck
- Celia Jane leck
- Victoria Sanderson
- Stephen Tame
- William Mortada
- Emma Wilkes
- Briidget Pemberton
- Desi Fradgley
- Angela Sturt
- David Fradgley
- Jennifer Bell
- David Brooks
- Emma Fordham
- Sarah-Jane Saint
- Tom Pettersen
- Samuel Saint-Pettersen
- Judy Masters
- Duncan Livermore
- DAVE OGDEN
- Eurgain Mai
- Hannah Nunn
- jane nightingale
- Hilary Chadwick
- Brigitte Meile
- Heimir Salt
- Isabella Smith
- Pipa Frederiksen
- Emma Andrews
- richard britton
- Sal Bullimore
- Juliet Wilkinson
- brian acton
- Andrew Brown
- olivia Foley
- m struthers
- Dave Wickham-Jones
- Lizzie Evans
- Gunta Andressen
- Patricia Frederiksen
- Deborah Jones
- Nicki Smith
- Sam Kuper
- Aaron
- Alistair Clark
- Joanna Hordern Curzon
- Dario Gerchi
- Steven Keith
- John Shave
- Tom Burt
- Thomas Pursey
- S Rees
- Tamara Galloway
- G Y Shin
- David Penn
- Sheila Young
- chris smart
