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GMOs > Crop Contamination
 UK Legislate to Allow Crop Contamination.
 Consultation Ends 20th October, 2006
Although the official deadline has passed, I have been told late arrivals, early this coming week, will be accepted. So you still have Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th to email some sort of response.I imagine you can still send responses for a bit longer :)
You can read a personal response, by Roger Lovejoy, that highlights one person's view on the consultation.
- Pages 37 to 44 : Plans for Organic Crop Contamination, at 1000 times detectable level
- Pages 45 to 54 : Plans for compensation.
- Genetic engineering is imprecise and unpredictable.
- Our supermarkets don’t sell GM food
- 18.5 million of us live in self-declared GM-free zones.
- But the big biotech companies are still trying to sneak GM into our food by getting the Government to legalise GM contamination of crops.
Tell the Government
we want our food and farming
GM Free
Farm groups in the United States - the world's leading producer of genetically-engineered crops - have opposed labelling, arguing it is unnecessary because their products have been proven safe.
In the United States, about 80 per cent of the soy crop, half of the canola crop and 40 per cent of the corn crop comes from genetically-engineered seeds. As the acreage has grown, Europe's markets have closed.
U.S. corn exports to Europe plummeted from 3.3 million tons in 1995 to just 25,000 tons in 2002, while Canada has lost all of its oilseed rape (canola) market to Europe since introducing GM crops, according to EU figures. Farmers in both cases have lost an estimated $300 million US a year.
The Bush administration is challenging the EU moratorium at the World Trade Organization, claiming it violates international trade rules. It also opposes the labelling rules, which would do little to remove barriers to U.S. products, which are generally unlabelled.
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