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GM Fields burned in France
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GM Fields burned in France

Date:   7/5/2008 7:39:19 AM ( 16 y ago)

5:34 AM
July 5, 08


Dialogue is my method of choice.
Making friends my approach.
increasing understanding, the hope.
Made numbers of friends at BIO,
Biotechnology Industry Organization International Convention
a few weeks ago.

There are good uses of Biotech around the world.
We need to sit down and explore what is good, and what
potentially harmful.

The prevailing understanding is that GM ag and organic cannot exist
side by side. The pollen from GM takes over and infiltrates organic seeds.
your EG


Got this through Liora Leah:
--- On Tue, 7/1/08, Danelia Wild wrote:
From: Danelia Wild
Subject: Activists Destroy Three GM Fields in France
To: "Danelia Wild"
Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, 9:23 PM


http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/49106/story.htm


REUTERS
July 2, 2008

Activists Destroy Three GM Fields in France
PARIS - Three fields of genetically modified (GM) maize were destroyed over the weekend in southwest France, the farm ministry said on Tuesday, calling the acts illegal and irresponsible for France's research sector.

Attacks on GM tests have become common practice in France, Europe's largest grain producer, where the use of biotech crops is widely opposed on fears they could harm humans and wildlife by triggering an uncontrolled spread of modified genes.

The attack, on Sunday night, was the first of the season.

French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier, along with Research Minister Valerie Pecresse, condemned the action.

"For the two ministers, this destruction of experiments aimed at testing new GMOs irresponsibly sap (France's) research capacity," the farm ministry said in a statement.

The experiments were carried out by Swiss agrochemicals company Syngenta and Pioneer, a unit of DuPont Co, near the city of Condom and another test, near Mauroux, was owned by US biotech giant Monsanto, it said.

The attacks came only a few days after the promulgation of a new law governing the growth of GM organisms in France, which promises a jail sentence of up to three years and a fine of 150,000 euros when an experimental GM field is destroyed.

Although France banned in February the sole GM crop grown in the European Union, a maize developed by Monsanto, the cultivation of GM seeds for scientific purposes is still legal, provided companies respect rules aimed at limiting dissemination of pollen to conventional fields.

Activists, including France's most famous GM opponent, Jose Bove, say these rules are not sufficient and argue the test fields being grown were sown before the new law.

The new law creates a body, called High Authority on GMOs, due to evaluate seeds before being authorised in the country.

"The ministry should have asked that these tests be halted while waiting for new evaluations (by the High Authority). It has a part of responsibility," Bove, who went to jail several times for ransacking GM fields, told Reuters.

The biotech industry insists its products are safe.

(Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide and Laure Bretton; editing by Christopher Johnson)

Story Date: 2/7/2008

WHAT IS THIS MAN,
JOSE BOVE, SAYING:


http://www.semcosh.org/Jose%20Bove.htm


GREEN BIO ARTICLES:

http://greenbio.checkbiotech.org/news/2007-03-30/Marked_increase_of_GM_planti...


BIO NOTE ON HIM:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/jose_bove.shtml

Food Fight Article:

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/01/28/FoodFight/


NEW YORK TIMES ARCHIVES:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/jose_bove/index....




 

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