FYI - America's masterplan is to force GM food on the world

March 7, 2006

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Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:24:46 -0800 (PST)

America's masterplan is to force GM food on the world

February 13, 2006, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers)

Three judges emerged after years of secret deliberation to rule

that Europe had imposed a de facto ban on GM [genetically modified]

food imports between 1999 and 2003, violating WTO rules. The court

also ruled that Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Luxembourg

had no legal grounds to impose their own unilateral import bans.

Actually, the judges said much more, but in true WTO style no one has

been allowed to know what. A few bureaucrats in the US, EU, Argentina

and Canada have reportedly seen the full 1,045-page report, and an

edited summary of some of its conclusions has been leaked.

But no one, it seems, will take responsibility for the ruling, which

may force the EU to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate

some of the world's most heavily subsidised farmers, and could change

the laws of at least six countries that have imposed GM bans. I

t is now clear that the real reason the US took Europe to the WTO

court was...to make it easier for its companies to...open regulatory

doors in China, India, south-east Asia, Latin America and Africa,

where most US exports now go. This is where millions of tonnes of US

food aid heads, and where US GM companies are desperate to have

access, buying up seed companies and schmoozing presidents.

Note: For an excellent summary of the dangers of genetically

modified foods that Americans are already eating without their

knowledge, see

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