Monsanto takes legal action against Germany
Here's another example of how giant agri-chemical corporations are using every means possible to impose their products without respecting the rights of consumers who do not want their risky products.
Following the decision by German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner to ban the cultivation and sale of Monanto's MON 810 genetically modified (GM) maize - Monsanto is now taking legal action to end this German ban in time for the seeds to be sown for this year's harvest.
A Monsanto spokesman said Germany's action to restrict Mon 810 was an "arbitrary ban" that violated EU rules.
This goes to show that Monsanto does not respect scientific warnings for possible impacts on the environment and uncertainties regarding the effects on human health. And it demonstrates that they do not respect governmental decisions aiming to protect citizens and the environment from GM crops under EU law.
Minister Aigner decided to issue the ban as information showed there was a justifiable reason to believe GM maize presented a danger to the environment.
>> Read more about the GMO maize ban in Germany and the science behind it.
UPDATE!
From Bloomberg on May 5th 2009:
Germany’s prohibition on a strain of genetically modified corn made by Monsanto was justified because “a preliminary assessment” showed the plant raises a potential danger, the Braunschweig Administrative Court said in an e-mailed statement today.
Monsanto's unscrupulous attempt to still get this hazardous GE maize on fields has for the moment failed. We're welcoming the court's decision. Here environmental and consumer concerns have been put before the interests of industrial corporations. The decision is also a success for the majority of consumers, who reject GE plants being cultivated.
We are now calling on German Minister, Ilse Aigner, to vote against authorisations of similar GE maize varieties for agricultural cultivation at EU level too. Genetic engineering is not a technology for the future, it is obsolescent. Research findings are showing increasingly often that ecological dangers stem from GE maize.
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Comments
Something to think about, corn/maize is a windblown pollinator. If I am not mistaken that means no matter who has grown monsanto's pattented maize it will REMAIN there.
It's gone wild, and NO LONGER in their control, yet how can they say they have patent rights when their precious patents is LITERALLY blowing in the wind? They can't.
What they can and do seem to control, is the suppression of evidence to the single LARGEST biological attack on the worlds food supply to date!
Posted by: Anon | May 6, 2009 2:12 AM
hi,
i m keen supporter of the green peace but the mail u r sending right now.. abt GM rice ,i can say is a Hoax created by some well dveloped european countr which can afford to ignore this vareity of rice and can simply spend few extra pounds or euroes to get the all natural and even the so called Organic rice. so they need not consume this so called Poisnous, unnatural GM Rice . this not for them... This vareity is BOON for the the people and farmers of poor world countreis, especially for the farmers of african continent, which pay the highest prices in the world for the fertilizers and pesticides. and who dont hv subsides like the european farmer enjoys.. due to which an average african farmer WHICH IS USUALLY A POOR WOMAN WID FAMILY OF FOUR USES ONLY 10 Kgs OF FERTILIZER PER HECTARE or even nothing at all as when compared to 200Kgs OF IT USED BY AN EUROPEAN FARMER, is that fair?? if the genes could be tranferd so easily like just by eating GM food.. then we would hv turned into some chloropyhll producing beings by this day.
so plz cut this crap, we need to produce enough food for 10 billion people by 2025.. n we r already at saturation point of available land.
only GM crops can and WILL give us the solution to that..
U GREEN PEACE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO R SENDING THIS HOAX GM RICE MAIL, ALONG WID THE SCIENTISTS(GOD KNOWS WHY THEY SHUD BE CALLED SCIENTISTS), WHO DO NOT SUPPORT GM CROPS, CAN AFFORD TO BE SORRY LATER WHEN U WILL BE PROVED WRONG BY TIME.AS U HV THE RESOURCES NOW,BUT POOR WORLD PEOPLE DO NOT AFFORD TO IGNORE THEM NOW AND WILL NOT BE THERE TO BE SORRY LATER.
Posted by: RIPPENJEET | May 27, 2009 12:26 PM