Monthly Online Updates on GE

2007 DECEMBER

• Dec 18th Thailand the plight of the dying farmer was being forged by Greenpeace activist in front of the Government House to hand in a petition to the Government House for the dangers posed by genetically modified organism open field trial. Thai will face environmental and agriculture threat if the military installed cabined continue to allow the open field trial without lifting up a ban.   read ...
  Source: GM Watch
• December 11th Japan The NO! GMO campaign of Japan strongly opposed of the decision to cancel GM Crops Moratorium by the Government of Australia. The request was signed by 2.9million consumers which are from 155 different organizations. Japanese are one of the major consumers for Canola Oil produced by Australian this was the reason why Japanese Consumers are very unsatisfied with the canceling of the moratorium.   read ...
  Source: Consumers Union of Japan
• December 17th Sify the Ministry of Environment gave up the responsibility for the labeling of GM food due to the increasing confusions and delays caused by both the domestically produced and imported food product.   read ...
  Source: Sify
• December 12th Penang food security campaigners from around the world gathered for PAN's 25th anniversary to express concern that farmer are turning the dependency on large multinational corporations for seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. These farmers are increasingly becoming more vulnerable to produce GE crops. The predatory corporate agriculture wants to control the entire food chain from the farm to the food.   read ...
  Source: GM Watch