Cruelty Free Living
Issue 2: July-September 1998

Protect Your Food

Already Unilever, one of the world's largest food companies, are beginning to introduce genetically engineered (GE) food into their product range. They have contaminated Batchelors Beanfest with GE soya and this establishes a dangerous precedent. If this GE ingredient is allowed into our food unchallenged then there are a flood of other GE foods waiting to come on the market that Unilever can easily slip into their other products. These include GE tomatoes, corn, sugar and rapeseed.

Many scientists have voiced their concerns about the safety of GE food. Poll after poll has shown that the public do not want it.

Iceland and smaller food producers have shown Unilever that GE soya can be kept out of food.

Please add your voice to the "Protect your Food" campaign. For more information on safety concerns and how to help protect your food, phone the campaign hotline on (0171) 865 8222.

This campaign is being run jointly by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Genetic Engineering Network.