DEMAND ALTERNATIVES

While many supermarkets and biotech companies are claiming it is impossible to segregate GM from GM free soya, here is proof that it is not!

* Paul Lang, general manager of Natural Products Inc. in Grinnell, Iowa, makes a marketing to-do of the fact that hiscompany's flour comes only from soybeans that haven't been tinkered with by genetic engineers. The response from his customers - food companies - is so promising that Natural Products is building a second plant.

* Canadian soybean growers plan EU sales of more than a million bushels of soy grown under special identity-preservation rules to ensure that no GM varieties are included. Farmers received an extra 15 cents a bushel to compensate for the identity-preservation measures.

* In December one of the world's top grain traders, Central Soya, announced it had already imported into Europe two shiploads of segregated traditional soya which had been segregated in North America. Central soya said it could satisfy presently known demand for GE-free soya. For more info call Jan Hulevad, Greenpeace Denmark on ++ 45 33 93 8660.

* FoE has been informed that virtually all the UK bread and baking industry will be made from Identity Preserved (IP) soya (i.e. non-GM soya) from 1998.

* A supplier of GMO-free lecithin is: Santista Alimentos in Brazil, email; moliveir@santista.com.br