GM-FREE IRELAND

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NON-GM ANIMAL FEED

Introduction
GM soybeans: Latin America's new colonizer
More information on non-GM animal feed
How to source non-GM conventional and organic animal feed
Non-GM feed for horses
Non-GM pet food
The EU market for non-GM-labelled food
Register of Irish exporters of non-GM animal produce
Register of Irish retailers of meat and dairy produce from non-GM fed animals


More information on non-GM animal feed

Environmental and health concerns of GE crops in animal feed

Greenpeace Briefing, September 2006. (20-page 1.4MB PDF file).


Presentation to the UK Freeze retailer meeting

(3-page 138k MsWord document). Summary of a presentation by FARM - the independent voice of UK farmers - in July 2005 to representatives of UK supermarkets and food processors looking at the costs of a GM-free policy for the UK dairy industry. The author Peter Lundgren can be reached in the UK on + 44 1526 398 309 or + 44 7751 112 303. His email is peter@lundgren.wanadoo.co.uk.


GM and the Food Chain

(17-page 704kb PDF file). Report on a meeting held in January 2006 by a coalition of consumer, public interest, environment and farming groups in the UK who want to explore the challenges involved in maintaining a GM free supply chain. The meeting was funded by Waitrose Ltd.

This document includes:

an overview of GM decision making in 2006;

implications of the EU labeling and traceability regulations for the food industry;

a Greenpeace report on the availability of non-GM soya from Brazil, and

an update on the implications of non-GM feeds for poultry and pig producers, by Dr. Richard Baines, Principal Lecturer in Management Systems for Food Safety and the Environment at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK.


GM and dairy cowfeed: Steps to a GM-free future for the UK dairy industry

Detailed overview of the problems and solutions. May 2004, Greenpeace. (20-page 1.4MB PDF file).


Volumes of available South American Non-GMO soy meal and other soy products

Statement by Cert ID Certificadora Ltda, Porto Allegre, Brazil. (1 page 56KB PDF file).


Animal feed: a key Common Agricultural Policy issue

Report by the European Farmers Coordination, March 2003. (4 page 64KB Word document).


The Blair House Agreement: context and background

Presentation by Helena Paul of ExoNexus to the GMO-free animal feed workshop held at the second European conference on GMO-free regions, biodiversity and rural development, Berlin, 14-15 January 2005. (3 page 48kb Word document).


The implications of the end of the Blair House limits on EU oilseed production

Presentation by Helena Paul of ExoNexus to the GMO-free animal feed workshop held at the second European conference on GMO-free regions, biodiversity and rural development, Berlin, 14-15 January 2005. (1 page 32kb Word document).


L'alimentation animale

Une question centrale de l'agriculture européenne et un enjeu majeur entre l'Union Européenne, les Etats-Unis et des pays du Sud. Report (in French) by the European Farmers Coordination, member of Via Campesina, August 2001. (39-page 204kb PDF file).


Greenpeace International web pages on GM food and feed:

GM food: www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering/food .

GM animal feed:
www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering/food/ge-crops-in-animal-feed.

Sainsbury's trials of GE-free milk:
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/ge/archives/001372.html.

GE animal feed is sneaking into the food chain:
www.greenpeace.org/international_en/multimedia/download/1/9960/0/sneaking.pdf

Movie: Something Scary in the Dairy:
www.greenpeace.org.uk/Templates/template3_view.cfm?UCIDParam=20030930123313.


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