Special European Parliament Briefing – Preliminary Announcement

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> ISIS Press Release 28/07/04

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> Special European Parliament Briefing – Preliminary

> Announcement

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> Scientists for a GM-Free Sustainable Europe

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> An international panel of scientists will call on

> Europe to

> ban all environmental releases of genetically

> modified (GM)

> crops and instead to promote and adopt sustainable

> agricultural practices as a matter of urgency.

>

> Invited speakers include:

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> Dr. Tewolde Egziabher, distinguished agronomist and

> director

> of Ethiopia's Environment al Protection Authority,

> who will

> tell Parliament why his country is going organic to

> feed the

> poorest; an important policy decision based on the

> remarkable increase in crop yields subsequent to the

>

> introduction of a simple composting package in the

> State of

> Tigray since 1996

>

> Edward Goldsmith, founding editor of The Ecologist ,

> who

> will present evidence on why sustainable agriculture

> must be

> adopted to ameliorate climate change

>

> Michael Meacher, MP, former environment minister of

> the UK,

> who will call for changes in science research and

> other

> policies that are needed to shift away from GM in

> order to

> support and invest in sustainable agriculture

>

> Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, director of the Institute of Science

> in

> Society, who will tell Parliament that genetic

> modification

> is based on the discredited science of genetic

> determinism

> and hence unlikely to deliver its many promises; and

> that

> the new genetics of the ‘fluid genome' demands a

> thoroughly

> ecological approach to health and agriculture.

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> Jill Evans, MEP Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales

> (Greens/EFA), will be chairing and hosting the event

>

> organised by the Institute of Science in Society,

> the

> Independent Science Panel, GM Free Cymru and Third

> World

> Network.

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> The English, French and Spanish editions of the

> Independent

> Science Panel Report, The Case for a GM-Free

> Sustainable

> World , will be released on the occasion. This

> Report is a

> comprehensive dossier of evidence on the problems

> and

> hazards of GM agriculture and the proven successes

> of all

> forms of sustainable farming systems around the

> world.

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> 20 October 2004

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> Venue: European Parliament

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> Time: 13:30 – 17:00

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> Organised by Institute of Science in Society,

> Independent

> Science Panel, GM-Free Cymru and Third World Network

> in

> conjunction with Jill Evans MEP

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> Spaces are limited and participants must register by

> 1st

> October, 2004

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