[Naturopaths] PRESS RELEASE: GM Food Exempted From Regulatory Approval.

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India is not a Democratic country..Period. Voices of people do not matter to insensitive and thoroughly corrupted bureaucrats and leaders who are selling the nation to vested corporate interests and playing with health and lives of a billion people. Just to appease their corporate Masters and get their palms greased in the process, the powers that be in Indian Government can resort to any such regulations. Money matters to them more than public health. Do we have any recent example when Indian Government corrected its fault and cancelled the regulations in public interest. When they have not even considered appropriate to have a country wide discussion and open debate on such crucial matter when majority of our people, if correctly informed, would disagree for GM crops, producs and seeds to be snapped over civil society, where then is any chance that

they would listen. Once the considerations change hand it becomes " Deal is a deal". It is wrong to assume that interest of our people matters to them. Be it SEZ, GM Seeds that have reached almost every village now or GM Products, government is only interested in Deal ! Ashok Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01 wrote: I received this today. This is a very disturbing development

and should be opposed by one and all - Jagannath. Orissa Coalition for Food Safety & Sovereignty, Bhubaneswar . PRESS RELEASE Dt: 27.09.07 Sub: New GEAC notification

exempting GM food from regulatory approval will make India a dumping ground for GM foods. The Ministry of Environment and Forest has issued a notification on September 11 that seeks to exempt GM food, whose end products are not Living Modified Organisms (LMOs), from regulatory approval. Thus the Indian food processing industry will now be free to market processed foods containing GM ingredients. It is obvious that the changed interpretation of regulations is meant to offer an opportunity to biotech food manufacturers to import untested and

unreliable GM foods into the country.The importers had all along been doing this on the sly taking advantage of lax supervision. The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) was set up by the Ministry of Environment and Forests as an inter-ministerial body to regulate the research, testing and commercial release of genetically modified (GM) crops, food and organism. The 1989 Rules under the Environment Protection Act clearly spell out that the GEAC is supposed to take care of all aspects of GM crops and foods, including health implications of GM foods which may be imported into the country, whether raw or in a processed form. However this notification sets aside, by an amendment, the responsibility of the GEAC to involve itself on health safety aspects of GM foods and confines its activity to environmental concerns alone. This is totally unacceptable and goes against the very grain of the 1989 rules of the Environmental Protection Act that sets the mandate of GEAC to be "bio safety" which includes environment, nature and health. It is a matter of great concern that while the public outcry over the safety aspects of GM food is forcing countries all over the world to put in place stringent anti-GM regulations, the Indian regulatory mechanism should suddenly throw its doors wide open

to this menace. The GM ingredients that the country will have to face as a result are from GM corn, maize, soya, cottonseed, rapeseed, tomato, aspartame manufactured using GM technology by Monsanto, and what is little known in India, contaminated meat, milk and poultry products as cattle and poultry too will be fed food containing GM ingredients. Thus food ranging from soups, sauces, oils, fries, milk, ice cream, yogurt, infant formula, breads, biscuit, soya nuggets and a host of other widely used products will carry an unknown and unstudied risk. This decision will also endanger the status of India as an exporter of non-GM organic food. This seems to be fallout of India's recent bonhomie with the US. The USA, which violates the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol to promote the use of GM food and crops wishes to open up the Indian market to its own products. India too is a signatory to the same protocol but, under pressure from industries and politicians, has shamelessly buckled down as expected. Till now there were protests against lax

labelling laws that allowed unrestricted imports of food containing GM ingredients. But now the protests will fall flat as the government machinery will not be able to keep an eye on the huge turnover of contaminated food that will result. The Indian citizen is no longer being guarded by the watch dogs of security but the wolves of greed. Protection from the hazards of GM food will now become a daunting task that every health conscious citizen has to personally supervise. This is in spite of paying thousands of crores as taxes to pay government servants who are supposed to do their jobs. Studies have revealed the health dangers from GM foods. Scientists from CRIIGEN, France, have found GM maize to cause organ damage and weight

loss in rats. As per the study, "There were "signs of toxicity" in the liver and kidney of the test animals. Analysis of blood, urine, liver and kidneys showed signs of disruption to kidney/liver function." The liver and kidney are the body's most important detoxification agents. Recent studies from Russia (in 2006 and 2007) show that Monsanto's Roundup Ready GM-soy used during tests on rats and mice caused serious mutilations of their internal organs (liver, kidneys, testicles) and in histological and cellular construction.

Besides, it influences the number of babies in a litter, caused increased death rates among descendants, and results in increased aggressiveness and loss of maternal instinct, it was found. A January 2001 report from an expert panel of the Royal Society of Canada said it was "scientifically unjustifiable" to presume that GM foods are safe. A 2002 report by the UK's Royal Society said that genetic modification "could lead to unpredicted harmful changes in the nutritional state of foods," and recommended that potential health effects of GM foods be rigorously researched before being fed to pregnant or breast-feeding women, elderly people, those suffering from chronic disease, and babies. The dangers from the widespread proliferation of GM food on the malnourished and largely sick population of India are a risk that should not be taken. A government that cannot provide safe and nutritious food to a substantial majority of its citizen should refrain from poisoning them. We, at OCFSS, strongly condemn this move to introduce GM foods into India's food chain without rigorously testing their effects on health, nature and environment. Yours faithfully, Members: Orissa Coalition for Food Safety & Sovereignty."In conclusion, vaccines are a perfect manifestation of everything that is satanic. They represent an adulterous and arrogant tampering with divine creation, based on the intellectual conceit of "perfecting" creation. They are poisonous, containing derivatives from metals such as mercury and aluminum, and from formaldehyde. They are made from the cell lines and viruses of biblically unclean animals such as monkeys, cats, etc. Worst of all, they are made from the cell lines of premeditatedly murdered children. " Bob Sperlazzo Christian Digest 11/29/2002 Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. Reach out and touch someone with your Love & Gratitude.. ~Ashok

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