Posted
24th May 2001
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Join the GE-Free Environment Postcard Campaign! From the Coalition
for a GE-Free Environment Aotearoa/NZ The Royal Commission into
Genetic Modification will be reporting back to
the Government July 27. It is very important that the Government
makes the right decision about the future place of genetic engineering
in our country. o this end, a number of groups have joined together
for a postcard
campaign to 5 of the key governmental decision-makers.
They are:
· Helen Clark,
· Marian Hobbs (Minister for the Environment),
· Annette King (Minister of Health),
· Pete Hodgson (Minister of Research, Science and Technology
and
Minister for CRIs),
· Jim Sutton (Minister of Agriculture).
50, 000 postcards have been made for each Minister, and will
be distributed around the country for the public to sign and
send back to the Ministers. The postcards can be viewed at http://nzgefree.nelson.org.nz.
The essential demands to the Ministers are not to release GE
into the environment or the food chain.
We have asked each minister to:
§ ban all field trials and commercial releases of GE
§ keep GE foods out of the country
§ restrict GE to contained laboratories
While these demands do not cover all of the issues of concern
to the public or even to our organisations, these are the fundamental
themes that we all agree on.
The 'Coalition' is made up of groups sharing a number of concerns
around the release of genetically engineered organisms into
the environment and the food chain. It has been called solely
for the purposes of this
postcard campaign. To find out who we are, go to nzgefree.nelson.org.nz/groups
The postcard campaign is just one of the activities being organised.
The postcards will need to reach the government before August.
We
invite your organisation
1. to be an official supporter of the above-stated demands of
this campaign
AND/OR
2. to distribute these cards among your members/networks AND/OR
3. to contribute to production and distribution costs of the
campaign.
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