IIf you're interested in biotechnology, genetics and molecular farming, and would like some more information, this page provides a few links to get you started. You don't need to read anything before the first group meeting, its just provided for interest before the second group

A presentation about molecular farming, based on the information handed out at the groups

GM Nation: Website of the 2003 public debate on GM, funded by the government and organised by the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission, an independent public body. The site has summaries of the public's opinions and a copy of the final report. http://www.gmnation.org.uk/

The Guardian GM Special Report http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate

A US report on the risks and benefits of pharmaceutical producing plants from the Pew centre http://pewagbiotech.org/events/0717/ConferenceReport.pdf

Pharming on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharming_%28genetics%29

The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology has some good video interviews about molecular farming/biopharming, although some are a bit dated http://www.cast-science.org/cast/biotech/wbd_topics.htm#biopharming

A good resource for information about the state of molecular farming, what it is and where its grown http://www.molecularfarming.com