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<blockquote data-quote="Celeriac" data-source="post: 926388" data-attributes="member: 188243"><p>As a former Friend of the Soil Association I did take part in an EU consultation process since the date of that PDF. I would advise that if you really want the nitty gritty you contact one of the organic certifying bodies in UK. Secondly, farms have to go through a conversion process to become organic.</p><p></p><p>It is possible to eat grass-pastured non-GM fed lamb cheaply, you only have to look for New Zealand lamb. To get the New Zealand rosette it has to be grass-pastured and New Zealand doesn't allow GM feed for Quality Mark lamb. It's easier to find during autumn/winter as that's their spring/summer.</p><p></p><p>New Zealand beef for the domestic market cannot use growth hormones, but it can be used for the export market. I've not come across NZ beef in UK, only lamb and venison.</p><p></p><p>Not having learned lessons from the low fat debacle, governments are making potentially bigger mistakes now with GM food. In the EU, that has to labelled, but farmers are able to feed GM feed to animals and poultry and these and their products don't need to be labelled.. There are studies now which show that GMOs can be transferred to humans. A study in Newcastle tracked one GM soya bean though a volunteer and noticed that it mutated gut bacteria. </p><p></p><p>Since 2012 most supermarkets have caved and let farmers feed GM feed. Only organic food is non GM now. Even M&S no longer guarantees that non-organic food is GM free although their non-organic food is often more expensive than organic food in Ocado, Waitrose or Sainsbury's.</p><p></p><p>Monsanto's Roundup glyphosate weedkiller, allied to GM maize etc was declared in March as a probable carcinogen, by the World Health Organization's cancer research agency, IARC.</p><p></p><p>Having fallen victim to the low fat fiasco, including 3/4 of my life on skimmed milk and trans fat margarine, I'm just not prepared to be an experiment again</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celeriac, post: 926388, member: 188243"] As a former Friend of the Soil Association I did take part in an EU consultation process since the date of that PDF. I would advise that if you really want the nitty gritty you contact one of the organic certifying bodies in UK. Secondly, farms have to go through a conversion process to become organic. It is possible to eat grass-pastured non-GM fed lamb cheaply, you only have to look for New Zealand lamb. To get the New Zealand rosette it has to be grass-pastured and New Zealand doesn't allow GM feed for Quality Mark lamb. It's easier to find during autumn/winter as that's their spring/summer. New Zealand beef for the domestic market cannot use growth hormones, but it can be used for the export market. I've not come across NZ beef in UK, only lamb and venison. Not having learned lessons from the low fat debacle, governments are making potentially bigger mistakes now with GM food. In the EU, that has to labelled, but farmers are able to feed GM feed to animals and poultry and these and their products don't need to be labelled.. There are studies now which show that GMOs can be transferred to humans. A study in Newcastle tracked one GM soya bean though a volunteer and noticed that it mutated gut bacteria. Since 2012 most supermarkets have caved and let farmers feed GM feed. Only organic food is non GM now. Even M&S no longer guarantees that non-organic food is GM free although their non-organic food is often more expensive than organic food in Ocado, Waitrose or Sainsbury's. Monsanto's Roundup glyphosate weedkiller, allied to GM maize etc was declared in March as a probable carcinogen, by the World Health Organization's cancer research agency, IARC. Having fallen victim to the low fat fiasco, including 3/4 of my life on skimmed milk and trans fat margarine, I'm just not prepared to be an experiment again [/QUOTE]
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