Who is in control of our food? and DEFRA TAP Model

"Many UK farmers are working to very small, or non-existent, profit margins, and so cannot afford to bear the extra cost of non-GM animal feed."

Problem
Solution?

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/gm_animal_feeds.pdf

Genetically modified animal feed Briefing - Friends of the Earth 2006, the problem will now be worse.

GM Freeze have the information relating to the legal issues surrounding the non labeling of foods from animals fed GM

http://www.gmfreeze.org/page.asp?ID=425&iType=1083

There is also an interesting press release:
http://www.gmfreeze.org/page.asp?id=224&iType=1087
European GM crop co-existence recommendations legally flawed

GM Freeze latest Press releases:
http://www.gmfreeze.org/page.asp?id=265&iType=1079

See
http://www.gmfreeze.org/page.asp?id=484&iType=1079
Immediate release       22 February 2011
"EU Votes to Allow Unapproved GM Crops in Imported Animal Feed

Today EU Members States (including the UK) voted in favour of a European Commission proposal to allow low levels of unapproved GM traits in imports of animals feed. [1]

This vote ends the EU's policy of zero tolerance to unapproved traits in imports and follows heavy lobbying by the animal feed and biotech industries for such a move........"

Do we know anything about G Philippidis (more info. in my message 23 April 2011)
http://us.macmillan.com/author/georgephilippidis
Lecturer, Bradford Centre for International Development, University of Bradford, UK

Has he been challenged?

http://www2.cita-aragon.es/citarea/bitstream/10532/196/1/10532-80_169.pdf
"Assessing the impact of GM animal feed restrictions in the UK/EU livestock sectors."

also, http://revistas.inia.es/ojs/index.php/sjar/article/view/1138/0

Abstract

"Over the last decade, much controversy has surrounded the usage of genetically modified organism (GMO) technology in commercial agriculture. More specifically, it is feared that GMOs may introduce new allergens into the food chain or contribute to antibiotic resistance. At the current time, the European Union (EU) adopts a zero tolerance policy toward "non-approved" GMO imports, whilst the approval process has not kept pace with the proliferation of new GMO varieties. In the EU livestock sectors, this apparent mis-match threatens to interrupt supplies of high protein feed inputs (e.g., soymeal) from countries with more relaxed regulations regarding GMOs. Employing a well known multi-region computable general equilibrium framework, this study quantitatively assesses the impact of a hypothetical EU import ban on unapproved GMO varieties of soybean and maize imports on livestock, meat and dairy sectors. The model code is heavily modified to improve the characterisation of the agricultural sectors and land usage, whilst a realistic baseline is employed to update the global database to 2008, the year the hypothetical ban is implemented. In the "worst case" scenario, there are significant competitive losses in EU livestock, meat and dairy sectors. In Spain, the negative impacts are particularly pronounced given the importance of pig production in agriculture. In contrast, all non-EU regions' trade balances improve, with notable trade gains in the USA and Brazil. To conclude, the EU must urgently find a long term strategy for GMOs if it is to reconcile political expediency with pragmatic economic concerns."  !!!!!!!!! 
See GM Freeze Press release 22 February 2011