Rainbow Warrior arrives in Sydney

Australian food icon Margaret Fulton welcomed the Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, when it sailed into Sydney harbour today.

The ship is here as part of a our global campaign to promote a future free from genetically engineered (GE) food.

Ms Fulton said that GE threatened the future of our food, not only for us but also for our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. "It's so important that Greenpeace and the Rainbow Warrior are tackling this important issue," she said.

The ship arrives just weeks after all Australian canola growing states rejected the commercial release of GE canola. The debate is now shifting to GE imports into the Australian food chain.

Greenpeace campaigner John Hepburn said that the biggest GE threat to Australian food was from imported GE soya. "Up to 300,000 tonnes of GE soy is imported from the US each year and is contaminating our food by stealth."

Most of this soya goes into feeding chickens - with Inghams being the largest user. Woolworths is Inghams largest customer so most chickens that people buy from Woolworths have been fed a diet of GE feed.

"Most Australian´s don´t want to be part of this genetic experiment and would be shocked to know that their Sunday roast and BBQ chickens have been fed GE," said Mr Hepburn.

More information:

- Visit the Australian True Food website

- Join our Trolley Watch and help rid our supermarkets from GE foood

- VISIT the Rainbow Warrior

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