European Environment Ministers meet on December 4 to debate what safety checks are needed to assess genetically modified food before it can be cultivated or sold in the EU. Clearly stronger checks are needed, if you read (PDF in English) an explosive new report about fertility rate decline in mice fed with Monsanto GE maize from the Austrian government!
The European Food Safety Authority is like America's Food and Drug Administration. Under the current regime EFSA, like the FDA, runs inadequate checks and often just rubber stamps what agro-chemical industry experts say.
December 4 could be the day we turn it around -- If we can convince Ministers meeting that day to vote for strict controls. You can take action too.
Kevin says:
Genetically engineered foods and seeds need much more research before establishing approval of the existing. Of prime concern is providing underd...
Genetically engineered foods and seeds need much more research before establishing approval of the existing. Of prime concern is providing underdeveloped countries with seeds that cannot reproduce (from Monsanto). This is totally unaccepable. Western countries cannot appear to be helpful and then in fact take what nature provides, the ability to reproduce. Thank you, Patrisha Thomson USA
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