Anti-GMO
Day - April 17 Thus, GMO were found in fodder intended for animals sold under the organic label, the Swiss Federal Office of Agriculture announced March 11. FAO and WHO, who published on April 12 recommendations concerning the risk of allergic reactions caused by certain GMO to people suffering from food allergies, bring a heavy caution to "anti-GMO" French who are organizing on April 17 a day of action against GMO and the "patenting of life". This world day, launched by the network of country organizations Via Campesina (Country Way), based in Honduras, is relayed in France by a "Collective of 17 April" joining together the Farm Confederation (member of the network), ATTAC, Doctors of the world, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Ecoropa, Chiche and GMO:Dangers. It intends to sensitize the general public to the concerns caused by a technology for which no one, not even the scientists who preach it, can in the long term certify the effects on human health, emphasizes the collective. Debates, forums and consumer information activities are in particular envisaged in several towns in France, in particular in front of big companies selling products containing GMO. A "remarkable deed" must be aimed Tuesday at the scientific interest group Genoplante at Evry which is supported 70% by public... But the largest charge made against GMO by the collective, beyond the potential health danger, is the state of deep dependence in which the agrochemical multinationals place the farmers who use them, especially in developing countries. The seeds of GMO being "sterile", the farmers are "captive" customers, obliged to repurchase their seeds each year with "associated products", knowing that to use a weedkiller or pesticide running on a culture of GMO would destroy it at once, explains the farm Confederation.
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