GMO rice on its way - help stop Bayer

[Guest guest]

Rice is daily food for half of the global population. It has been grown

around the world for over 10,000 years and is cultivated in 113 countries.

For millions of people rice is not just a food - it's a way of life.

 

 

Bayer, the German chemical giant, has created a genetically engineered

(GE) variety of rice that will put our health, our agriculture and our

biodiversity at risk.

 

The European Union (EU) will soon decide whether or not Bayer's GE rice

can end up on European dinner plates. But this will not only affect

Europeans. If the EU approves the import of Bayer's GE rice, farmers in the US

and

elsewhere may soon start planting the manipulated crop.

 

Stopping GE rice is not just about consumer choice or the environment -

it's a lot bigger than that. It's a matter of global food security, human

rights and survival.

 

 

You can tell the EU to keep Bayer's hands off your rice - _sign the

petition_

(http://links.mailing.greenpeace.org/ctt?kn=4 & m=32255228 & r=MTExMjgyMTg1NgS2 & b=0 & \

j=NDcyMTE1NTkS1 & mt=1 & rt=0) .

Thanks for your help saving the world's most important food. Please send

this onto your friends today - we don't have much time before the decision

is made.

 

With best wishes

Jan, Natalia, Lisa and everyone on the rice team at Greenpeace

 

P.S Ecological farming is the safest solution to the food crisis and

looming climate change disasters. _By signing the petition_

(http://links.mailing.greenpeace.org/ctt?kn=4 & m=32255228 & r=MTExMjgyMTg1NgS2 & b=0 & \

j=NDcyMTE1NTkS1 &

mt=1 & rt=0) you're adding your voice in support of global sustainability

in the face of climate change.