Posted on 30-5-2003
GM
Moratorium Lifting Opposed
Newsroom reports that Radio New Zealand says the Rural Women
New Zealand
organisation is opposed to the Government lifting its moratorium
on genetic
modification in October.
Rural Women says it wants the hold on the release of genetically
modified
products kept in place until a robust biotechnology strategy
has been
developed. The president, Ellen Ramsay, told the Rural Women
Conference the
strategy currently proposed does not cover the concerns of its
members and
is not strong enough to manage the potential consequences of
early GM
release. She says the Rural Women's organisation is concerned
with the
sustainability of rural communities environmentally, economically
and
socially and genetic modification has major implications across
all those
areas.
Ms Ramsay says it would not be responsible to lift the restrictions
on GM
release when the proposed strategy is too weak to be effective.
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