ALERT - Online Petition against GM Food

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Good Day Brothers and Sisters,

Its Tuesday, 1st December 2009

 

 

 

 

If you strongly oppose genetically modified food, that contains genes splicedwith those of bacteria and other virus organism, write to the PM

Dr. Manmojan Singh and register your protest

 

Go to http://iamnolabrat. com/ to sign the online petition or

post/fax/email the attached petition (also included here for your reading). Here is where you should post/fax/email the petitions to:Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India,

# 7, Race Course Road, New Delhi 110001.Phone: 011-23018939/ 23011156;Fax: 011-23015603, 011-23019545, 011-23016857, 011-23014255Email: pmosb. in, pmindia (AT) pmindia (DOT) nic.in, manmohan (AT) sansad (DOT) nic.inSmt Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, UPA, # 10, Janpath, New Delhi 110011Phone: 011-23014161; 011-23012656Fax: 011-23018651; 011-23017047Email: 10janpath (AT) vsnl (DOT) net, soniagandhi@

sansad.nic. in ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- - Dear Dr Manmohan Singh, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India: I write to you to raise a matter of the greatest importance to our health, environment

and the state of our world – Genetically Modified (GM) foods/crops in general and

Bt Brinjal in particular. Given that thousands of citizens of this country including

eminent scientists like Dr Pushpa Bhargava have already written to you expressing

their strong concerns on this matter, I believe that you would respond to my urgent concern.

 

Your kind self might be aware that on October 14th 2009, the Genetic Engineering ApprovalCommittee (GEAC) has hastily cleared for commercial use the first GM food crop, Bt Brinjal, in a closed-door manner and without sound scientific evidence to prove its safety.

 

Bt Brinjal, if approved, would become the first ever such GM vegetable crop with thetoxic Bt gene in it, anywhere in the world, to be eaten more or less directly.

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the process of Genetic Engineering

alters the nature of our food in unpredictable and irreversible ways.

 

During animal studies including ones conducted by GM companies themselves,

evidence linked GM food with infertility, organ and tissue damage,

adverse effects on growth and development, decreased immunity and even

ill effects on children.

 

The nutritional composition of foods is also known to have changed.

Despite such evidence and despite the fact that a majority of countries in the world

do not allow/grow GM crops/foods, Bt Brinjal has been cleared by our regulators

and now awaits the decision of your government.

 

The bio-safety of Bt Brinjal is questionable and there is no independent research

to prove its safety. Independent analyses of the crop developer's data has shown

that it is unsafe for human consumption, animal feed or for a release into the environment,

concerns the Expert Committee of the GEAC has refused to adequately and

scientifically address.

 

They disregarded the fact that we are the Centre of Origin/Diversity for Brinjal

and no GM crop has hitherto been allowed in its Centre of Origin/Diversity anywhere.

What is more, there is also enormous positive evidence on the ground of viable

ecological alternatives where neither chemical pesticides nor GM seeds are needed for pest

management in farming. The question about the very need for GM crops/foods is therefore

unanswered even as many GM seeds are being developed.

You have the power and responsibility, as the head of the Union Cabinet,

to prevent an irreversible health and environmental catastrophe by stopping

Bt Brinjal and disallowing GMOs in our food & farming and through the promotion

of sustainable agricultural technologies.

 

You can do, if you choose to, what is right for the millions who have vested

their trust in your chair. Mr Prime Minister, do not test this technology on me.

 

I AM NO LAB RAT and I refuse to eat Bt Brinjal and any other GM food.

 

If Bt Brinjal is allowed, my right to choose what I eat and my right to safe food

will be violated forever. Further, farmers will be entrapped into perpetual dependency

on profit-hungry corporations, even as farming becomes unviable with ever-increasing cost

of cultivation. I therefore urge you to disallow Bt Brinjal from entering my plate

and the fields of Indian farmers.

FULL NAME:_______ _________ _________ _________ _________ _______ OCCUPATION:_ _________ _________ ______PLACE: _________ ________ EMAIL ID:_________ _________ _________ __PHONE:_ _________ _______

 

Yours sincerely, CC: Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Hon'ble Chairperson of the UPA

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