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 Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: Brown pushes EU to allow more modified animal feeds |
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| Quote: | By Andrew Grice, Political Editor in Brussels
Friday, 20 June 2008
Leading article: There is no reason for a blanket ban on GM crops
Gordon Brown is calling on the European Union to relax its rules on importing genetically modified animal feed in a further sign of the Government's willingness to embrace the controversial technology. Mr Brown believes GM crops are vital to the attempt to cut spiralling food prices.
His proposal comes the day after The Independent revealed that the Environment minister, Phil Woolas, has held private talks with the biotechnology industry about relaxing Britain's policy on the use of GM crops.
The Prime Minister also signalled that he is happy to see a public debate over whether GM crops should be grown commercially in Britain to reduce global prices by boosting production. His spokesman said last night: "His view is that we must be guided by the scientific evidence."
Ministers who support GM crops believe there are no convincing arguments against them. They want to turn the tables on environmental groups who campaigned successfully against widespread GM production in Britain during the last government review in 2004. Although there is no ban, the ministers want the rules changed in light of the food crisis, as no GM crops are currently being grown commercially in this country.
At a two-day summit in Brussels which began last night, EU leaders were urged to "bite the bullet" and embrace GM products as a solution to rocketing food prices. The plea came from Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. Several EU countries, led by France, are unconvinced that "Frankenstein foods" are safe.
At the meeting, Mr Brown suggested allowing more GM animal food into the EU. The move may raise safety fears because contaminated feed was blamed for the outbreak in Britain of BSE in the 1990s.
The Commission fears that Europe could run short of animal feed because of its strict licensing regime, which could further raise food prices. Europe is heavily dependent on imports as it does not have enough land to both farm animals and grow the feed they need. The other elements of the Brown plan are a global trade deal; further reform of the Common Agricultural Policy; a review of the role to be played by biofuels; and a plan to use aid for poor nations for new technology farm products.
The Independent revealed yesterday that ministers believe Britain's cautious approach to GM should be relaxed because of current global food problems. But the Government's rethink provoked a furious backlash from opponents of GM crops.
Tricia O'Rourke, a spokeswoman for Oxfam, said: "The present food crisis needs more than a technology fix. More focus is needed on sustainable technology that 400 million smallholders can use to improve their productivity."
Caroline Lucas, a Green Party MEP, added: "There are no guarantees that GM crops are safe, sustainable or the solution to the problem of hunger. Over 70 per cent of citizens and several governments in the EU have expressed concerns over the negative effects that such crops may have on human health, biodiversity and the environment."
Friends of the Earth accused ministers of falling for "hype" by GM firms. Its GM campaigner Clare Oxborrow said: "GM crops do not increase yields or tackle hunger and poverty."
In response, a Downing Street said: "As Phil Woolas has reiterated, it is... our position that safety is the top priority and that GM crops are to be considered on a case-by-case basis, based entirely on the science." |
Just picked this up I had no idea we were this close to eating "Roundup ready" food in the EU 
It seems to me that the whole GM food thing is at best a huge monopoly creating scam for monsanto and at worst some kind of end game depopulation check mate move by our psychotic overlords,
Full article with comments here
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/brown-pushes-eu-to-allo w-more-modified-animal-feeds-851020.html
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| it's just sick, is nothing sacred to these control freaks? why do they feel the need to mess with our food - and make it so underhand that we don't know whether we're eating GM or not? To my mind it is an absolute perversion of nature to have these so-called 'terminator' seeds so that the farmer is dependant on the corporation for the seeds every season. Food is fundamental to life and any corporation or body that wants to mess about with it should be treated as the enemy. As usual our so-called public servants are in bed with these scum. |
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They want to control the genetics in our food so that they can control ours in a fashion. It ties in with the creation of a universal DNA database.
They want to weaken the health of the population so that we either die fairly young or have to be maintained from as young an age as possible to as old an age as possible on patented drug cartel products.
Apart from the coming attack on our health, they intend to attack our means of supporting ourselves outside of the predominating medical system by limiting the amounts of vitamins and minerals in supplements to way below therapeutic levels, and also by severely restricting herbal supplements and flower essences, requiring them to put through the testing requirements for synthetic drugs
The Codex Alimentarius is due to be enacted throughout the EU by the end of 2009.
They must be stopped
A one page flyer giving a brief outline of the Codex is here
Please print and distribute
Read more on the anh website http://www.anhcampaign.org/
Get hold of copies of the DVDs from the alternative perspectives conference held in Totnes, paricularly those of Robert Verkerk and Phillip Day, http://www.ianrcrane.co.uk/index.php
This must be a top of the agenda issue
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