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Interestingly in the UK it seems a lot of the fuss over GM is beginning
to
blow over.

On the contrary! No supermarket will dare to put GM ingredients in its
products for fear of losing customers...

regards
Marcus

funny that

I was at a feed meeting with a compounder with several representitives for
buying groups.These buying groups supply several different dairies and
therefore several different supermarket chains
The compounder pointed out he couldn't put in non-gm soya without jacking
feed prices a lot. Did we need non-gm soya.
Everyone just shrugged and said that the supermarkets aren't going to pay
for it so they don't want it, so the soya is just going in on price and so
will be ordinary commodity soya



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - News from gmfoodnews.com

UK Supermarkets maintain strict GM free policy for 2003

6 January 2003

gmfoodnews.com has completed its annual survey of UK supermarkets for
their position on genetically modified (GM) food and ingredients for
2003.

The results show that opposition to GM foods is as strong as it was in
1999, when supermarkets removed GM foods and ingredients from their
shelves. Just as in 1999, no UK supermarket includes GM food or
ingredients in their own-brand products. Increasingly, supermarkets
are also specifying GM-free feed for animals producing their meat,
milk and eggs.

ooops, pity about that. Except they don't actually pay any extra to cover
extra costs, so what do they get?
Put it like this. If they want guaranteed gm free milk then they will have
to pay a premium, either to have it produced in the UK or imported from
abroad.
They are not willing to pay that premium, so it isn't going to happen


but then if you do believe major multinational corporations, then fine

Jim Webster