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The 4th Heart-to-Heart at Penrhos
Sunday 6th June
‘Jack Monsanto and his GM beanstalk’
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Our Heart-to-Heart is an annual seminar focusing on the promotion of small farms and local food producers. It is hosted by the Penrhos Trust as one of the Hay Literary Festival events.
Chair - Alison Craig, The Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK). Terry Jones, Monty Python and Medieval historian, on the trail of destruction left by huge powers throughout history. Mark Measures, organic farm advisor, on the benefits of small local farms and food producers. Bob Kennard, Agriculturist, successful Organic Producer-Retailer, on understanding the practicalities of organic food production. Dr Michael Antoniou, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Genetics, Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Kings College London, on the experience of sitting on a Government Science Review Panel for the GM Debate. Lim Li Ching, deputy editor Science in Society magazine and member of the bio-safety programme at Third World Network a NGO, on the hazards of GM and benefits of sustainable agriculture with particular respect to the implications for developing countries.
Speakers, Heart-to-Heart June 6th 2004
Alison Craig
Alison has provided the telephone helpline at PAN UK since October 1998 for advice and information to those affected by exposure. She refers chemically exposed people onto sympathetic medical help; assists in forming support contacts; maintains a database of pesticide exposure cases, comprising over 1500 entries; liaises between exposed people and researchers, and carries out policy advocacy on the basis of research findings.
Terry Jones
Actor, Film Director, Author, former Monty Python team member and Medieval Historian. Terry is an authority on Chaucer and his contemporary’s, writing books, lecturing around the world and presenting several factual television programmes, notably, the major BBC
Mark Measures
Mark Measures is one of the countries most experienced organic advisers having been advising and helping farmers to convert to organic farming and growing for over twenty years. He formerly worked with Elm Farm Research Centre as Head of the Organic Advisory Service and has recently moved to his farm in the Clun Valley. Mark is Farm Project Manager for Project Carrot, a Herefordshire sustainability initiative run by the Pershore Group of Colleges (Holme Lacy) and Bulmer Foundation and Head of the Organic Systems Development Programme at EFRC.
Bob Kennard
Bob Kennard is an Agriculturalist and successful Organic Producer-Retailer. Bob started Graig Farm Organics with his wife in mid-Wales in 1988, following some 10 years in African agricultural management. Graig Farm Organics’ has won many awards for its quality. The original core of the business is organic meat, sold through independent retail outlets, mail order and the Internet. The range now includes a wide variety of produce in addition to meat, all sourced as locally as possible. Since the early 1990’s Bob has developed Graig Farm Producer Group - made up of some 200 organic farming members across Wales and the Borders who supply Graig Farm Organics with organic livestock as well as the major multiples.
Bob is an active campaigner and was awarded BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme’s “Best Campaigner” 2001 - for his work to save small abattoirs. He is also a member of the Welsh Assembly’s Organic Strategy & Marketing Group.
Dr Michael Antoniou
Senior Lecturer in Molecular Genetics, Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London. Michael’s expertise and research interests are in human gene organisation and control leading to human genetic therapy applications. Michael has been very active in the public debate on the application of gene-based technologies highlighting where we need to draw the line so that the integrity of life is not jeopardised as we seek cures for various ailments. He has acted in an advisory capacity on biotechnology issues to the Soil Association, Greenpeace, Econexus, GeneWatch and Friends of the Earth and most recently he was nominated to represent these joint NGOs to represent their views during the second session of the UK government's GM Science Review Panel. He has also been called upon for advise on applications of genetic modification (GM) in medicine and especially agriculture by members of all major (and some minor) political parties. He has been an invited speaker at public meetings, schools and conferences throughout the UK debating agricultural biotechnology issues. Organisers have included Farmers Weekly Magazine, FWAG, Natural Food Trade Organisations, Soil Association, Organisation of University Caterers, Guild of Food Writers, Townswomen’s Guild and many local societies. Written many articles on the use of GM in medicine and especially agriculture for the lay public. Articles have appeared in Farmers Weekly, The Living Earth (Soil Association), Smallholder (Farming) Magazine, The Independent on Sunday, The Vegetarian and other society magazines. Michael has had extensive interaction with the media over the last 7 years giving interviews on agricultural biotechnology issues. He has been extensively quoted by the press (all national papers and many magazines), has had letters published in all the major national newspapers, participated in numerous (mostly live) radio programmes, TV news programmes and has contributed to several TV documentaries including "Frankenstein's Food" (Close Up West, BBC2 Bristol, "Seeds of Doubt" (First Sight, BBC2 Southeast), Frankenstein Food (Panorama, BBC2).
Lim Li Ching
Lim Li Ching works with the bio-safety programme at Third World Network (TWN), an international NGO based in Malaysia, and its partner organisation, the Institute of Science in Society (ISIS), UK. She is deputy-editor of Science in Society magazine, ISIS’ quarterly publication. She completed her B.Sc. in Ecology in 1994, then worked with WWF Malaysia on marine conservation issues. She graduated from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University in 2001, after completing her M.Phil. in Development Studies. Li Ching’s main interests and areas of work centre on genetic engineering and bio-safety, and sustainable agriculture, particularly with respect to implications for developing countries.
ISIS is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes socially accountable and ecologically sustainable approaches in science. TWN is involved in efforts to bring about a greater articulation of the needs and rights of peoples in developing countries; a fair distribution of world resources; and forms of development which are ecologically sustainable and fulfil human needs.
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