Police have raided Greenpeace’s Sydney headquarters, seizing evidence relating to last week’s destruction of a genetically modified wheat experiment, according to the industry website Food Navigator. Authorities investigating the destruction of a genetically modified (GM) wheat trial at a farm in Canberra raided and seized property from Greenpeace’s head offices in Sydney, Australia. Greenpeace activists [...]

The debate over genetically modified (GM) food has flared up again recently, after Greenpeace destroyed an experimental CSIRO wheat crop in Canberra on July 14. The Australian Federal Police is now investigating Greenpeace over the incident, which CSIRO scientists claim has set their research back by up to a year. Greenpeace argued the crop posed [...]

ANIMAL feeding trials have already been conducted on Genetically Modified wheat in Australia using rats in the past two or three years, while a pig trial was held earlier this year, according to CSIRO plant industry chief, Jeremy Burdon. Dr Burdon said data from the rat feeding trial had already been published and the pig [...]

AN ORGANIC farmer from Western Australia is preparing to sue his neighbour for contaminating his farm with GM canola. The Safe Food Foundation today announced it would help fund Kojonup farmer Steve Marsh’s legal battle after GM canola contaminated his farm late last year. The contamination resulted in the loss of his organic certification from [...]

Australia’s reputation as an outstanding food producer is at risk. We are proud to be two of Australia’s leading chefs and food industry spokesmen. Making and serving fresh and tasty food is a great pleasure for us. We have built our lives and careers around this passion. But we are disturbed by the prospect that [...]

The crop of genetically modified wheat destroyed by Greenpeace activists in Canberra today was rated by the federal government regulator of genetically modified organisms as posing a “negligible” risk to either people or the environment. This is in contrast to Greenpeace’s claims that the crop consisted of “untested and potentially unstable GM organisms”. The crop [...]

In early June a bill was introduced in the New South Wales parliament to extend the moratorium on genetically modified crops for a further ten years. It passed quickly, facing no opposition in either house. The bill retains the power of the NSW government to block the cultivation of genetically modified crops after they have [...]

A GREENPEACE report on genetically modified (GM) wheat, due to be released tomorrow, will “irresponsibly create fear and undertake scaremongering”, critics say. Agrifood Awareness Australia chief executive Paula Fitzgerald said to those who did not have an understanding of the Australian grains industry the report on GM wheat would appear credible. However, she said it [...]