The Really Useful GEN Resource List

information for action about genetic engineering

General Information and Advice

• Tips for setting up a local group - and handy contacts - UPDATED
• "What to do if there's a GM test site near you" - step by step guide to different campaigning methods - UPDATED
• "My first little book of GM crop decontamination" - excellent guide to covert crop actions, available from - NEW!
• Dates for your Diary - a monthly list of calendar dates - NEW!
• The GEN List of Damaged Trial Sites in the UK - a regularly updated list of sites which have been deliberately damaged or withdrawn - NEW!
• Legal advice and briefings on procedure is available from Activists Legal Project: ;
• Earth First Action Update - a monthly round up of ecological and other direct action from around Britain. Costs �5 for 10 issues, from /
• Schnews - a weekly round up of news and activities of ecological and social issues. Available from .

Newsletters

• Genetix Update - quarterly newsletter: news, dates and contacts. �5 a year from TOGG; ;
• Splice - produced 6 times a year, costing between �20 - �85 from Genetics Forum: www.geneticsforum.org.uk

E-mail lists

• gm-action - focussing on rapid ideas for action, e.g. letters; meetings. To subscribe e-mail and put subscribe gm-action in the subject
• - news and information on companies
• GEN e-mail lists - three lists of varying traffic. Focuses on UK and international news, analysis and action reports. To subscribe, e-mail

Campaign Materials/Resources

• Banners - the banner you want might already be painted, or we can give advice on painting them yourself
• Lifecycles - pedal powered genetics roadshow, costumes and cinema. www.lifecycles.uk.cf or
• Images - from biohazard symbols and cartoons to photos of past actions, if there's a specific image you need for a leaflet, there's a chance we'll have it on the GEN computer
• Genes on Toast - outline for street theatre

Stickers

• No Patents on Life - four designs - miffy; leaf; barcode; DNA strip

Bookmarks

• Primal Seeds - untangling ourselves from the monocult - launch for the website; explains its content

Postcards

• Put your foot down for real food and farming - joint leaflet and postcard to Tony Blair - NEW!
• GM coffee: We don't want it; Don't sell it - postcard to give to retailers, from Action Aid; - NEW!
• GM Inside - GM animal feed postcard to store managers
• Five Year Freeze - postcard to MPs asking for a moratorium
• Who's involved in GMOs near you? - launch postcard for GM info website

Tapes

• Genetic Engineering and the Patenting of Life - a talk by Luke Anderson, available from TOGG; ;

Videos

• Stop The Crop - an inspiring summary of crop action in the UK by Undercurrents. Copies available from GEN for cost price plus p+p

Leaflets

• Genetic Engineering Network - an introduction to the GEN office, what it does, and key contacts - NEW!
• "GM foods: the jury is still out" - introductory leaflet from Five Year Freeze - NEW!
• Human Genetics Alert - introduction to the issues and the organisation - NEW!
• Genetic Engineering Under Scrutiny - General GeneWatch leaflet -
• MORI/GeneWatch Poll Results - Details of the June 1998 opinion poll -
• Genetic Hazard! At a Supermarket Near You
• TOGG Leaflets - Useful, easy introduction to the key issues. Four subjects: Farm Scale Trials; Veg and Freedom; GM Animal Feed; Life, the Universe, and Genetic Engineering
• Don't let the Scientists bring out the Animal in you - BUAV leaflet about GE and xenotransplantation
• Genetic Engineering: Don't Swallow It! - myths and facts about GM. Slightly out of date but a good intro
• Beware: Hazardous Food Ahead - introductory leaflet on GE Foods, how to avoid them and what you can do about it
• Look what the Gene Dictators are growing just for you - leaflet by the soil association

Books

There are many books available, see your local bookshop, or ring GEN for advice. These are five new books, all available from Zed Books, , apart from the last two - ring GEN for how to get hold of a copy or try your local bookshop

• Redesigning life - summary of the worldwide challenge to GE (edited by Brian Tokar) - NEW!
• Brave New Seeds - the threat of GM crops to farmers (Bob Brac and Franck Seuret) - NEW!
• Stolen Harvest - the hijacking of the global food supply (Vandana Shiva) - NEW!
• vFrom the Ground Up - rethinking industrial agriculture (Norberg Hodge, Goering and Page) - NEW!
• Trust Us, We're Experts - How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future (John Stauber) - NEW!
• Genetic Engineering, Food and the Environment - a good introduction (Luke Anderson)

Websites

There are many useful websites, too many for this list, so here's a few of them. Try their links pages for more.

• geneticsaction.org.uk - Genetic Engineering Network, with full list of GM trial sites in UK
• www.togg.org.uk - Totnes Genetics Group
• animalfeed - issues and action ideas about GM animal feed
• www.gm-info.org.uk - Corporate Watch, briefings and map of GM sites in UK
• www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~cahge - Human Genetics Alert campaign
• www.groundup.org - ASEED Europe's excellent links and introduction
• www.genewatch.org - briefings galore!
• www.primalseeds.org - biodiversity, seed saving guides, guerilla gardening, news and discussion
• geneticsaction.org.uk/testsites - the UK test site list, regularly updated
• www.ukabc.org - websites with great briefings on trade, IPR's and agricultural biodiversity
• www.grain.org - websites with great briefings on trade, IPR's and agricultural biodiversity
• www.rafi.org - websites with great briefings on trade, IPR's and agricultural biodiversity

Information about Alternatives

• What's wrong with supermarkets? - critique leaflet about supermarkets and what you can do
• 10 Reason's to grow organic fruit and vegetables - part of HDRA's grow your own campaign; leaflet
• The Seed Search is on! - introduction and guide to seed saving; leaflet
• The Cook's Potato Guide - fold out poster on different varieties and how to grow your own
• The Cook's Garden Planner - fold out illustrated chart on what to grow and when
• Organic garden's open and events guide 2001
• Guerilla Gardening - you don't have to have a big garden to grow your own: check out www.primalseeds.org for a guide

Briefings and Reports

Many of these briefings are also available from GEN

• Action Aid:
  
  • Syngenta: Switching off farmers' rights?
  • Citizen's jury (report on citizen's jury on GM in India)
  • Crops and robbers (exposes patents on life)
  • World Trade Organisation: prescribing food insecurity
  • AstraZeneca and its genetic research: feeding the world or fuelling hunger?
  • Robbing coffee's cradle - GM coffee and it's threat to poor farmers - NEW!
• Corporate Watch:
  
  • Animal Feed & GE: Other major animal feed manufacturers
  • Animal Feed & GE: BOCM Pauls
  • Animal Feed & GE: Dalgety Agriculture
  • From test tube to tummy - GMO supply chain
  • Archer Daniels Midland - supermarket to the world
  • Cash cows and Bull markets - finance behind GM crops
  • Aventis
  • Cargill - arrogance incorporated
  • The industry strikes back- functional foods good for Monsanto's health
  • Control freaks - the GMO exporters
  • Apocalypse later? - who's winning the biotech battle?
• Friends of the Earth:
  
  • Critique of SCIMAC guidelines for GM Crops
  • Farm Scale Trials of GM crops; in Depth
  • GM Animal Feed
  • GM Crops and Food
• Genewatch UK: / www.genewatch.org
  
  • Farmscale Trials of GM Crops:Answering the safety questions
  • Genetically Modified Foods: Will Labelling Provide Choice?
  • Genetic Engineering: A Review of Developments in 1998
  • Leaking from the Lab? The contained use of GM Micro-Organisms in the UK
  • Genetically Engineered Oilseed Rape: Agricultural Savior or New Form of Pollution?
  • Privatising Knowledge, Patenting Genes
  • Human Gene Therapy: A Cure for all ills
  • GM Crops in the UK - Farmers Info Series
  • GE A review of Developments in 2000
  • Human Biocollections: Gene banking
  • GM crops currently being field trialled in the UK (2001)
  • Genetic Testing in Insurance and Employment: A new form of Discrimination - NEW!
  • Syngenta - Switching off Farmer's Rights?
  • Biotech, the Next Generation. Good for Whose Health?
  • Overview of the Farm Scale Trials and factsheet on each crop
  • Biological Weapons and the New Genetics
  • Genetic Engineering: Can it feed the World?
  • Patenting Genes - Stifling Research and Jeapordising Healthcare
  • Designer Forests - The Development of GM Trees
• Greenpeace:
  
  • Supermarkets and Animal Feed - NEW!
  • Non-GM Seed for Farmers - NEW!
  • GM Farm Scale Trials - two versions, one two pages, one nine pages
  • GM Wine - a guide (only available on website; www.greenpeace.org.uk)
  • Shopper's guide to GM - informs shoppers what animal produce in which brands is GM
  • GE Fish: Swimming against the Tide (only available on website; www.greenpeace.org)
  • Pulp Fiction - GE Trees (only available on website; www.greenpeace.org)
• Green Party:
  
  • Keep the Genetic Experiment out of out Schools - briefing and campaign pack
• Human Genetics Alert:
  
  • Why should I be concerned about human genetics? - NEW!
  • Non-reproductive Cloning
• The Sunshine Project:
  
  • The Biological Weapons Convention
  • Risks of Using Biological Agents in Drug Eradication
  • Biological Weapons and Genetic Technologies: Set of Three Briefings
• The Corner House: /
  
  • Briefing 10: Food? Health? Hope? Genetic Engineering and World Hunger
  • Briefing 16: If Cloning is the Answer, What was the Question? Power and Decision-Making in the Geneticisation of Health
  • Briefing 21: Genetic Dialectic: The Biological Politics of Genetically Modified Trees
• Women's Environmental Network:
  For individual Briefings, contact GEN. For a full pack, contact WEN
• • Genetic Engineering and the Threat to Farm Animals
  • UK Addresses of Biotech Industry and Government
  • What is Genetic Engineering
  • Out of Control: Threats from Patents
  • The Giant Green Salmon - Cautionary Tales
  • Gene Foods
  • Terminator Technology
• Other Briefings
  
  • GE Cotton
  • Feeding the Hungry Transnationals