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Dr Ramadoss, ban unsafe GE food: Greenpeace

Press release | June 23, 2008 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — Greenpeace knocked on the doors of Health Ministry today to remind Dr Ramadoss, the Health Minister about the health risks of GM foods. The activists piled up the illegal GM chips packets in front of the Ministry while...

Farmers rise up against Genetic Engineering, ask TNAU to stop open air field trials

Press release | February 22, 2008 at 5:30

COIMBATORE, India — More than hundred farmers, consumers and environmental activists belonging to Thamizhaga velan kappu kuzhu today protested against a Genetic Engineering field trial of BT brinjal being conducted by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural...

Safety of our food under threat: GM Brinjal to escape scrutiny and enter our plates

Press release | June 13, 2006 at 5:30

DELHI, India — Three 'cows' and three 'sheep', on behalf of 1600 dead cattle, sought an audience with the Minister of Agriculture Mr. Sharad Pawar this morning to present a memorandum (1) drawing his attention to the mysterious deaths of cattle...

GM Crop Trials Shrouded in Secrecy

Press release | February 27, 2006 at 5:30

NEW DELHI, India — The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee [GEAC] and the State Governments today accepted that they are not kept informed by the companies on where the GM crop trials are happening. This was revealed at a meeting convened by...

UN World Food Day - Asians Call for Ban on GE Rice

Press release | October 14, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — A coalition of 17 organisations from across Asia today issued a World Food Day statement calling for a global ban on the introduction of genetically engineered (GE) rice.

Say No to Bt Cotton

Press release | March 1, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — .

The cotton farmer or the greedy corporation. Who does the GEAC represent?

Feature story | May 12, 2005 at 5:30

The GEAC in its current avatar has been in existence for about fifteen years now. It is feared that it will morph into a new impotent regulatory body if the new biotech policy is adopted sometime later this year.

The GEAC - Still Silent On A Damning Report

Feature story | August 16, 2005 at 5:30

BANGALORE, India — Here’s how the public-private partnership goes about its work these days.

Theni Farmers Join Greenpeace in Fighting Pesticides

Feature story | August 28, 2004 at 5:30

CHENNAI, India — 28th August 2004: About one hundred and seventy farmers from seven villages in Theni, Tamil Nadu attended the third public hearing of ‘pesticides and its effects on health’ conducted by Greenpeace and SIRPI (our project partner...

Celebrating safe food on World Food day

Feature story | October 28, 2011 at 15:16

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food,” George Bernard Shaw.

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