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 Árpád Pusztai's Homepage. Since the affair over GM potatoes has come to light, I have had to resort to the Internet to air my views.Email: A.Pusztai@freenet.co.uk British Beef. The recipe for BSE.Email: info@britishbeef.co.uk Community Composting Network. Providing advice and support to existing and would-be community composting projects across the UK.Community Composting Network, 67 Alexandra Road, Sheffield, S2 3EE Tel/Fax: 0114 2580483, Email: info@communitycompost.org The Food Commission is the UK's leading independent watchdog on food issues. We have been campaigning for safer, healthier food for over ten years.The Food Commission, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF Tel: 020 7837 2250 Fax: 020 7837 1141 Email: enquiries@foodcomm.org.ukt, Oxford, OX4 1BG. Email: pledge@greengloves.org Garden Organic. the UK's leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 yearsRyton Organic Gardens, Coventry CV8 3LG. Tel: 024 7630 3517 Fax: 24 7663 9229 Email: enquiry@hdra.org.uk Genetic Engineering Network. Groups actively exchanging information within the network include Corporate Watch, Earth First!, genetiX snowball, Genetix Food Alert, Five Year Freeze, Green Party, Greenpeace, WomenÕs Environmental Network and Gaia Foundation, as well as retailers in the natural food trade, organic farmers and the numerous local groups and individuals that are springing up around the UK in opposition to genetic engineering.GEN, Archway Resource Centre, 1a Waterlow Road, Archway, London, N19 5NJ Tel: 0207 2721923/0207 2721586 Email: gen@gn.apc.org Genetix snowball. A campaign of non-violent civil responsibility.genetiX snowball, One World Centre, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS. Tel: 0161 834 0295. Fax: 0161 834 8187. Email: genetixsnowball@orangenet.co.uk GM Free Scotland. The site which aims to give you all the help you need to demand your right to natural and safe food.GM Protest Caravan The lay-by near Roskill Farm, Munlochy, Ross-shire, Scotland IV8 8PA. Email: hotlink@gmfreescotland.net GM Watch developed out of the Norfolk Genetic Information Network (NGIN - pronounced 'engine') - a news and research service founded in Norfolk, UK in the spring of 1998. NGIN's mission was to report on the growing concerns about genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification, and about the rapid release of genetically modified (GM) foods and crops into the environment and into our food chain in the absence of either a social or scientific consensus on their safety.GM WATCH, c/o 26 Pottergate, Norwich, UK, NR2 1DX, Tel: +44 (0)1603 624021 (ask for Jonathan Matthews). Email: ngin@gmwatch.org Localfood. This site acts as an information resource and portal for the local food sector. It hosts the FLAIR project and introduces f3, the Foundation for Local Food Initiatives.Localfood, PO Box 1234, Bristol BS99 2PG. Tel: 0845 458 9525 Email: mail@localfood.org.uk Local Food Works. Local Food Works exists to foster sustainable local food systems through the development of local food networks. Make this site work for you: send us your local food case studies, reports, news... and we'll add them here for free. Source local produce: We provide information for schools, hospitals and other groups to help you source local and organic produce direct from local farmers.Local Food Works, Soil Association, Bristol House 40-56 Victoria Street, Bristol BS1 6BY. Tel: 0117 914 2424 Email: lfw@localfoodworks.org McSpotlight, (see corporate control page).The National Pure Water Association is a non profit company pledged to fight fluoridation of drinking water supplies. On the continent fluoride is almost entirely banned.NPWA, 2 Dennington Lane, Crigglestone, Wakefield, WF4 3ET UK. Tel: 01924 25 44 33 The Pesticides Trust, (see environment page). Plants for a Future is a resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. We practice vegan-organic permaculture with emphasis on creating an ecologically sustainable environment and Perennial plants. We have two pieces of land, in Devon and Cornwall, where we demonstrate our agricultural principals and carry out research into interesting plants. We have many leaflets on plant use.Plants for a Future 1 Lerryn View, Lerryn, Lostwithiel Cornwall, PL22 0QJ Tel: 01208 872 963 Sustain. Sustain is born! The National Food Alliance and the Sustainable Agriculture Food and Environment (SAFE) Alliance are now officially one with a new name - Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming.Our purpose: Sustain advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture. We represent around 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level. Tel: 0171 837 1228 Fax: 0171 837 1141 Totnes Genetix Group. ToGG is a diverse group of friends of many ages and perspectives. We all live in or near Totnes and sporadically work together to get tough on genetic engineering and tough on the causes of genetic engineering. The group was formed in 1998 when it was discovered that a test group of GM herbicide tolerant maize was to be planted next to an organic farm on the outskirts of town.ToGG, PO Box 77, Totnes TQ9 5ZJ. Tel: +44 (0) 1803 840098 Fax: +44 (0) 1803 864591 Email: info@togg.org.uk The UK Food Group (UKFG) exists to promote action on global food security through the collective effort of civil society. We represent a unique body of expertise and experience, with members drawn from the UK's leading non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on food and agriculture issues. The Vegan Society (UK) promotes ways of living entirely free of animal products for the benefit of people, animals and the environment...These pages include information on our Society, the ethics and morals behind veganism, the history of the society, local groups and a whole vegan world of information. The Vegan Society is a registered charity No 279228. Donald Watson House, 7 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7AA, United Kingdom. Tel: ++44(0)1424 427393. Fax: ++44(0)1424 717064 Vegetarian Society. At various times throughout the history of humankind, people have registered their opposition to the cruel way in which animals are oppressed, and many have turned to a vegetarian way of life. For both ethical and economic reasons, countless millions of people throughout the world live on a vegetarian diet.Parkdale, Dunham Road, Altrincham, Chesire, WA14 4QG. England. Tel:0161 928 0793. Veggies Catering Campaign (Nottingham) Ltd is a workers' co-operative providing catering services using no animal ingredients whatsoever and gives financial and other support to the animal rights movement.80 Mansfield Road, Nottingham, England, NG1 3HW. Tel: 0115 958 5666. Fax: Phone First. Email: info@veggies.org.uk Wholesome Food Association. The Wholesome Food Association is a campaigning organisation, promoting smaller-scale, sustainable food production. We provide a low-cost, labelling scheme for marketing local, authentic, wholesome food without the expense of Organic certification.Tel: Phil Chandler on (44) (0) 1803 840427 (Totnes, Devon, UK). Email: info@wholesomefood.org.uk |