GM Nation? - The Public Debate - Official government site for the country's first nationwide public discussion around GM issues taking place in June 2003. Offers information about genetic modification and how to participate in the debate until the 18 July deadline.
GM Science Review - Official government site about genetic modification. The national dialogue on GM includes three main strands: this science review, a public debate and an economics study. Includes topic areas, transcripts and papers from earlier Open Meetings, and papers and links as the Review progresses.
Defra: Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) - An independent group composed of leading scientists whose main function is to give statutory advice to UK Government Ministers on the risks to human health and the environment from the release and marketing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
The Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission - Strategic advisory body on biotechnology issues affecting agriculture and the environment. Information about the Commission and its work, with downloadable copies of reports.
The Royal Society: GM Plants - Includes oral evidence and papers from their independent study, including the final report on 4 February 2002: Genetically Modified Plants for Food Use and Human Health - An Update.
Defra: Farm-Scale Evaluations of Genetically Modified Crops - Information about the three-year programme allowing independent researchers to study the effect of Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerant (GMHT) crops: oilseed rape (both spring and autumn sown); beet (fodder and sugar varieties); and maize.
National Centre for Biotechnology Education: GM Food Information - NCBE, an independently-funded part of the University of Reading, provided educational materials and training courses. Includes extensive links including regulations, analysis, reports and publications, organizations and agencies.
i-bio UK: Information Biotechnology - A government-led site provides a rapid and comprehensive breakdown of relevant material and where to find it. Includes industry, investment, research, government, general knowledge and the UK biotech regulatory atlas.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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- George Bernard Shaw The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson GM Food
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
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-- Anonymous GM Food Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) GM Food
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe GM Food The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche GM Food
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins GM Food I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
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-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw GM Food
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins GM Food A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) GM Food
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell GM Food Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh GM Food
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Love is friendship set on fire.
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- Henry Kissinger GM Food
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous GM Food Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard GM Food An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) GM Food
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils GM Food [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley GM Food
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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-- Kingsley Amis GM Food Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student GM Food
