Top Stories and Blog Review – 17th Nov


by Jennie Rigg    
November 17, 2008 at 11:17 am

Secret GM crop trials planned

Nationwide
Ministers look to widen role of post offices
Tories to make it harder to divorce
John Reid: the internet is a threat
The pornographer who wants to challenge govt.
Ubuntu is coming to Mobile Phones.

International
Obama: Whose president is he anyway?
First interview with Obama post election
Japan officially in recession
Refund for UK savers as Iceland seeks rescue

DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Jennie Rigg

Miss Edith publicises a nasty little bit of ID legislation that the government have snuck through.

Scholars and Rogues on the dark side of recycling.

MushKush is angry about the results of the Barnardo’s survey.

Amused Cynicism discusses the difference between intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals.

Jonathan Calder and Love and Garbage bid a fond farewell to Reg Varney.

Stephen Glenn is patriotic about Scottish production of renewable energy. Smash Boredom is talking about British renewables too. Must be something in the water.

Spirit of 1976 discusses last night’s I’m a Nonentity. Everybody hates Kilroy, Brian seems to be going down quite well, and everybody loves George, apparently.

And if you crave more links, there’s the Britblog Roundup and the Scottish roundup. Both focus heavily on Baby P. PC Bloggs has the best entry I have seen on the matter. And if you need cheering up after that, take 15 seconds out of your life to watch Malcolm Bruce have a little dig at Mandelson….


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Excellent, hopefully they’ll manage to keep these crop locations secret so we can actually progress. But the top news story link doesn’t work.

You can always buy organic food, then you’ve got the certainty that it isn’t GM.

Misspelt my website’s URL on the above. Now rectified. I’m sure you’ll all be stampeding over there now.

I refuse to buy organic food unless there is no alternative, it’s bullshit wrapped up in hypocrisy.

Oh, and of course the stupid argument, asquith, would be that you can’t protect organic food from the plague of GM modified seeds and spores that will infect all “holy” crops, thus needs to be stopped no matter the cost

There has been a lot of nonsense written about GM foods. We’ve always been tampering with food.

My problem is the desire by GM designers to claim intellectual property over basic food stuffs.

Reports that crops have spread to adjoining farms, and then Monsanto – or whoever – has sued the unknowing farmer for use of their licensed IP, scare me.


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