GM CROPS - Feeding or Fooling the World?
Event Date: 2010-10-30
http://www.springheadtrust.org.uk/articledetail.php?article_id=41

Are GM Crops really the answer to.. WORLD HUNGER AND CLIMATE CHANGE?

Two One-day Conferences to be held at Springhead (in Dorset, UK) on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st October

10.30am - 3.30pm each day

Admission by pre-booked tickets only

Organisers: GM-Free Dorset, South West Genetic Engineering Network & GM Freeze

Sponsored by: The Wessex Organic Movement (WORM) Ace Energy & Lloyd Vine Insurance

Tickets GBP10.00 includes drinks and lunchtime buffet

Come and learn how to avoid GM in your diet. Listen to 6 of the UK’s leading experts set out a clear case as to why GM will NOT feed the world, highlighting better and more sustainable alternatives.

Learn how your local school or catering business can join 'FOOD FOR LIFE PARTNERSHIP' (www.foodforlife.org.ok)

There will be plenty of opportunities for audience interaction. The event will be chaired by Farmer and Blackmore Vale Magazine food and farming columnist Oliver Dowding.

SPEAKERS and AGENDA

Admission by pre-booked tickets only

Open 10am - tea and coffee will be available

10.30am - 10.35am Chairman's introductory speech

10.35am - 11am Pete Riley, GM Freeze Campaign Director - What is GM and summary at all levels including an update on the recent unlicenced GM contamination incident in the South West

11am - 11.30am Dr Brian John, Spokesperson for GM - Free Cymru - Why we should be concerned about the safety of GM crops

11.30am - 12 noon Lawrence Woodward OBE, former Director of the Organic Research Centre - Agro ecological solutions and how to 'feed the world' sustainably

12 noon - 12.15pm Break - drinks and snacks

12.15pm - 12.45pm Helen Wallace PhD, Executive Director of GeneWatch UK - Nutritionally 'Enhanced' GM Crops - A False Hope?

12.45pm - 1.15pm James Cleeton, National Delivery Manager for the Big Lottery funded, Food for Life Partnership (FFLP) - educating children to ask the right questions and FFLP in Dorset

1.15pm - 2pm Light Buffet - catering by the Picnic Cafe

2pm -2.30pm Michael Hart, Co-ordinator of ’The Small and Family Farm Alliance will talk about the launch of his new film 'Farmer to Farmer' which documents his recent visit to the US to talk to farmers about their experiences after growing GM crops for around 10 years

2.30pm - 3pm Audience questions to the panel and Chairman’s closing remarks.

Michael Hart will then show his film for those wanting to stay and answer questions. Free copies of his DVD will be available.