ORC are proud to be members of GM Freeze, the UK’s umbrella campaign on GM food, crops and patents.
The latest issue of Thin Ice, GM Freeze’s newsletter features a Member’s Profile of the Organic Research Centre with an interview with our Director Lucy MacLennan.
“Our stance on genetic modification arises from the Organic Principle of Care, and the Precautionary Principle. Organic agriculture should prevent significant risks by adopting appropriate technologies and rejecting unpredictable ones, such as GM.” Lucy MacLennan
In ‘New faces at GM Freeze’ there is a thankyou to Charlotte Bickler who has stepped down from the GM Freeze Board of Directors and a welcome to Giulia Kessous who will continue ORC’s representation on the Board.
In November, the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations became law. This opens the gates for new GMOs to enter our food and farming systems without having been assessed for environmental, health or socio-economic risks. GM Freeze have detailed all of the problems with the newly deregulated system in their report A disaster by design: the UK’s new rules for new GMOs.
Also in Thin Ice GM Freeze unpack the problems and expose a regulatory regime that is not fit for purpose. But on the hopeful side, they also highlight the movements for Food and Seed Sovereignty: alternatives that reject technocentric fixes to systemic problems, bought to life by small and medium-scale food producers across the world.
https://www.gmfreeze.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GMF-Thin-Ice-Issue-69.pdf
