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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171203
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URL:https://breakingtheframe.org.uk/calendarofevents/big-gene-gathering-20
 -london-2nd-december-2017/
SUMMARY:Big Gene Gathering +20 - London - 2nd December 2017
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate 20 Years of Defeating Corporate GM Food!\n December 2
 \, 2017\, (9.30am to 6pm) \n(With socialising/celebrating in the evening o
 f Dec 2nd and follow-up campaign planning on Dec 3rd\, 10am to 3pm)\n\nFRE
 E/donation\nBook now\n\n\nAre you eating GM food?\n\nThe fact that you are
  mostly* not is down to 20 years of inspiring direct action and pressure b
 y anti-GM activists. In 1997\, sparked by the threatened invasion of Monsa
 nto’s GM soya\, the anti-GM food campaign erupted into the fields and st
 reets of Britain. Five years of frenetic campaigning persuaded the British
  public that GM crops were an unacceptable threat to nature\, farming and 
 health. The supermarkets were forced to ban GM ingredients and repeated 
 ‘decontamination’ of trial sites blocked GM crop development. By 2003 
 trials had stopped and there was a Europe-wide de-facto moratorium on grow
 ing new GM crops.  The myth that ‘you can’t stop technology’ was de
 ad.\n\nThe Big Gene Gathering +20 is a chance to learn lessons about how t
 o win on food and environment issues\, and how to keep going for the long 
 haul after the initial success and excitement fade.  Despite our victorie
 s\, scientists and corporations are threatening a comeback with much more 
 powerful new technologies that they claim are not GM and so don’t need r
 egulating. Brexit may force GM crops and imported GM foods on us\, while t
 he new ‘synthetic biology’ aims at completely rewriting nature and eve
 n creating GM babies. So come and meet some of the hero(in)es of the anti-
 GM food campaign and discuss ways forward to combat the new threats to nat
 ure and people.\n\nSpeakers from: GM Freeze\, Genetic Engineering Network\
 , Beyond GM\, GM Watch\, Biofuel Watch\, Econexus\, Breaking the Frame\, H
 uman Genetics Alert and others.\n\nProgramme\n\n10.00 - Introduction\n\n10
 :15 - Panel on anti-GM campaign 1997-2003 - Jim McNulty\, Olaf Bayer\, Dav
 e King\n\n11.00 - Break\n\n11:15 - 2004-2017\n\n 	Liz O'Neill – EU De fa
 cto moratorium and Brexit\n 	Lawrence Woodward – co-existence/contaminat
 ion\, the organic movement\n 	Claire Robinson – scientific evidence on f
 ood safety and pest resistance\n 	Linda Kaucher – GM and trade treaties\
 n\n12.30 - Panel with all above speakers on 20 years of anti-GM campaignin
 g\n\n1.00 - Small groups on current and future campaigns\n\n1.30 - Lunch\n
 \n2.15 - Introduction to new technologies - Michael Antoniou\n\n2:45 - Syn
 bio biofuels and other products - Pete Deane\n\n3:15 - Regulatory issues w
 ith new technologies - Helena Paul\n\n3:45 - Break\n\n4.00 - Gene drives -
  Jim Thomas\n\n4:30 - GM babies - Dave King\n\n5.00 - Break into small gro
 ups on campaign plans\n\n5:30 - Closing\, decision on further meetings on 
 Sunday 3rd\n\nWe're encouraging everyone to stay for the evening of Saturd
 ay Dec 2nd for socialising and celebrating\, after the main event has fini
 shed.\n\nDec 3rd (10am to 3pm) will be devoted to planning new and existin
 g campaigns.\n\nFacebook\nBook now\nPlease help us publicise the event by 
 sharing this on social media and within your networks.\n\n\n\n*Products fr
 om animals fed on GM crops are still not banned or labelled.
LOCATION:LARC (London Action Resource Centre)\, 62 Fieldgate Street\, White
 chapel\, London\, E1 1ES\, United Kingdom
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