1.Need distracting over Xmas?
2.Need distracting from GM?
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1.Need distracting over Xmas?

Don't forget there are some great films you can watch online:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B97FA36D17428A0F&page=1

This year's film/DVD of the year, of course, was 'The World According to Monsanto'.

Watch a trailer for the film
http://www.bangmfood.org/films/22-films/10-watch-the-world-according-to-monsanto

Read Jeffrey Smith's excellent review
http://www.bangmfood.org/films/22-films/4-film-review-the-world-according-to-monsanto
   
Purchasing details for the DVD
http://www.bangmfood.org/films/22-films/10-watch-the-world-according-to-monsanto

Press comments:

"Devastating exposé . . . Will freeze the blood in your veins" - The Gazette

"Scrupulous, thorough, and damning" - Montreal Mirror

"Presents a cogent and horrifying enough picture of the world's leading seed manufacturer to warrant concern and fury." - Hour

"The charge sheet is horrifying, inexorable and convincing. The multinational firm Monsanto, which sells 90 per cent of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), lies on a massive scale to many people and even the whole planet with great success. That's the power that money and the apparently unlimited support of the United States government bestows. You already know all that if you've watched Marie-Monique Robin's extraordinary documentary, 'The World According to Monsanto'." - Le Monde
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2.Need distracting from GM?

In a world where the "audacity of hope" amounts to appointing a biotech shill as your Farmer in Chief, why not cuddle up with a hedgehog this Xmas?

Hugh Warwick, the former editor of 'Spliced', and an ecologist, journalist and photographer, has a new book out on the remarkable creature.

According to The Guardian, "Warwick's book is not an all-encompassing study of the hedgehog and its habitat... But it is a useful and unfailingly entertaining compendium of all the salient points. Do they have fleas? (Yes, special hedgehog fleas that are not interested in you or your pets.) Should you put milk out for them? (No.) And most importantly, how do they mate? (On which sensitive subject Warwick has this to say: "Hedge hog courtship is an understandably cautious process, for the male in particular. This is a species where no really does mean no.")
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/15/prickly-affair-hugh-warwick-review

Hugh's book's been published in the UK under the title, 'A Prickly Affair', and in the USA as, 'The Hedgehog's Dilemma - A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal'.

It can be got for a good discount via Amazon marketplace.

And check out Hedgehog Hugh's website: http://www.urchin.info/

It includes some great GM related protest pictures:
http://www.urchin.info/gallery/v/genetics+web/