The Welsh Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans, has announced that the country will take advantage of new EU rules allowing countries to opt out of growing EU-authorized GM crops. Yep – Wales is moving forward with a complete ban on biotech’s seed! [1]
Evans says that the nation plans to ban GM corn as well as 7 other GM crops authorized by the EU. She states:
“These new rules proposed by the European Commission provide Wales with the necessary tools to maintain our cautionary approach by allowing us to control the future cultivation of GM crops in Wales. It will allow us to protect the significant investment we have made in our organic sector and safeguard the agricultural land in Wales that is managed under voluntary agri-environment schemes.”
She continued:
“Farming and food processing businesses remain the driving force of our rural economy. Our emphasis is on competing on quality, strong branding and adding value through local processing. We, therefore, need to preserve consumer confidence and maintain our focus on a clean, green, natural environment. By having the ability to control what is grown in Wales we can have confidence in preserving these values. I have therefore acted now to ban the eight GM varieties from being grown in Wales that are either approved or about to be approved for cultivation in the EU.
These crops have not been developed for Welsh growing conditions and would be of no real benefit to Welsh farmers at this time. I will of course keep this position under review and am keeping an open mind on future GM developments and more advanced genetic techniques.”
Meanwhile, in the US, Food Democracy Now has reported that the Senate Agriculture Committee has scheduled a hearing less than three weeks away — on Wed. Oct 21st, to try to pass its version of the DARK ACT, 1599. The House passed the DARK act in July; the act outlaws states’ rights to label GMOs. Forget bans in the US, we can’t even get correct labeling, thanks to Monsanto!
With the string of EU Countries banning GMOs, soon we’ll have to report on the stragglers who haven’t banned genetically modified organisms.
Sources:
[1] GreenPeace
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Thankfully yet another country will be dependent on us gmo imports!!
Yes the GMO and foods monopoly is rather disturbing.
I truly hope they can break the chain.
Hardly, they will just have to buy from us instead of raising it themselves.
They won’t need GMO’s, unless your going over there and burning their crops. The world has fed itself for thousands of years without corporate agriculture.
Yes we did, and the majority of the people were involved in farming then. Now no one wishes can afford to do such things and they have no desire to work that hard. So what you have today is about 2% of the people feeding everyone. As far as Europe is concerned, if they don’t need us then why do they import so much of our gmos? They don’t seem to be slowing down any. Which is a very good thing considering the massive yields these gmos just keep kicking out.
No one wants to work on farms because of the heavy toxic burden they would assume. No salary would ever compensate enough.
That is one possibility or it could be that lazy Americans just don’t want to work that hard any more.
I’m afraid that is a very telling symptom of today’s society’s disconnect from reality and ability to share concern and work together as a community.
There is a reason for your statement, but there is also a true course of action to remedy the situation.
Perhaps if ‘lazy’ Americans were not poisoned with food that is not food, we would have more energy. Facts are facts man. Genetic modification of any thing by man is wrong.
Then that would include almost everything we eat. Don’t make excuses for couch potatoes as well.
Something is very wrong with people who promote and push genetically modified anything. Leave nature alone. Nature needs to work as it was intended. Not how you think it should be. Quite frankly human thought is flawed when humans think eating anything that has been altered from its natural state to be ok. We are what we eat and I chose to not be genetically altered and I (as the rest of society) has a right to know if something has been modified so I (as well as others) can choose NOT to eat it. Not to mention the fact that people were healthier when they were able to grow their own food. Thank you very much.
Again, man has modified almost everything starting about ten thousand years ago. So I guess you don’t eat much do you.
Wow – a GMO loving specimen, who believes GMO will feed the world. The world has always fed itself! Greed in the form of killing animals for their flesh and dairy is what is starving the world!
Raising meat and dairy requires a LOT of water, energy and land to produce. Land that takes away from the poor to feed grain to the poor animals that are slaughtered to feed the fat and greedy countries! Statistics, on Google and Kathy Freston’s book ‘Veganist’…
Some people NEED meat to ensure that their microbiome and metabolism work optimally. Blood type O people need red meat to cleave calcium from their food intake to make it bio-available. That said, CAFO meats are toxic and I never eat them. I vote with my dollars and opt for pastured meats.
Strange, I have been married to a type O Veggie for years, and he is now 69 and healthier than most meat eating people! The meat eating ones are shrinking in height, probably because meat and dairy make the body acidic which in turn leaches calcium from the bones, it’s a fallacy created by the meat and dairy industry that you need it to survive. Far safer to get your protein from other sources including many green leafy veg like kale and swiss chard,,, superfoods….. tofu, nuts, seeds, brown rice and lentils make a whole protein.
Normally I would agree with you since I used to be (in HS) a vegetarian for philosophical reasons. So it was very difficult for me to go back to eating meats. But I am careful about how the animals are cared for. Tofu and lentils make me ill, as does dairy but sprouted nuts and seeds are very prominent in my present diet.