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Independent Science Panel Briefing Parliament

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Special Parliamentary Briefing

The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World

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Damning new evidence that GM is unsafe

Stanley Ewen, Mae-Wan Ho, Brian John, Lim Li Ching,

Michael Meacher, Peter Saunders

The Independent Science Panel

 

29 April 2004

Time: 10:00h to 12:00h

Venue: Jubilee Room, House of Commons

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Provisional Programme

 

10:00 Welcome and Introduction

Alan Simpson MP

 

10:05 Michael Meacher MP

Why I oppose GM Crops for Britain

 

10:20 Peter T. Saunders

Prof of Applied Mathematics, King’s College London

The Case Against GM

 

10:35 Stanley Ewen

Consultant Histopathologist, Grampian University Hospitals Trust

Why I Won’t eat GM food

 

10:50 Mae-Wan Ho of ISIS, Editor & Art Director of Science in Society

GM Crops Not Fit for ‘Man or Beast’

 

11:05 Brian John

Geomorphologist, environmental scientist and coordinating group of GM Free Cymru

Approving GM Crops is Anti-Science

 

11:20 Lim Li Ching

Researcher in sustainable agriculture, ISIS and Third World Network

How GM Crops Destroy the Third World

 

11:35 General Discussion

 

12:00 End

 

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