The Welsh Assembly had been battling to keep Wales GM free and this latest development has been welcomed by Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Carwyn Jones.
There is so little knowledge of GM foods here that a leading Canadian supermarket chain says it cannot call a new range of fresh vegetables GM free because few consumers would know what the term means and it might even put them off.
They insist any rejection or doubt of the GM-free status of Indian rice in the global market could threaten their trade.
It was consumer fears that led the supermarkets to declare themselves GM-free.
Up to now, food manufacturers and retailers, and thus their customers, have not had to pay a big premium for GM-free ingredients.
They urged the government to ensure that Indian rice remained GM-free.
Some governments are trying to keep GM plants out of their country, in the belief that there will be a long-term market for produce from guaranteed GM-free sources.
For him, the global food crisis and America's apparently trouble-free GM experience change nothing.
As a short-term fix, GM announced it would provide free loaner cars for Chevy Volt owners.
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General Motors is also introducing the Cadillac ELR, similar to the extended-range plug-in Chevy Volt, that GM describes as guilt-free motoring in a high-performance luxury car.
The Free Press reports that GM made a similar shift of engineering staff that was working on development of gas-electric hybrid technology in 2003.
For GM to recover, it must break free from the legacy of strong-arm unions, crippling cost structures and onerous commitments to its ex-workers.
The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press both reported Friday that GM is moving the engineers -- who have been working on the fuel-cell technology in the company's advanced development laboratories division -- to the company's core production engineering division, which designs vehicles to be brought into production.
To market its BuyPower.com auto-shopping site, GM chose to ally with AOL--but also with free-service provider NetZero.
Today GM announced that 52 percent of its worldwide facilities are landfill-free.
Earlier this month, GM announced that 52 percent of its global facilities have achieved landfill-free status.
Yesterday I spoke to Jeff Goodsill, GM of Stomp Games, about Robot Rising, Facebook games and the Free-to-Play movement in general.
Above all, the task-force will want to see evidence that GM can repair its balance-sheet and become capable of generating positive free cashflow in a car market somewhat bigger than today's, but smaller than in the past.
"We don't build cars in research labs, " Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research, development and strategic planning, told the Free Press.
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