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IRISH GM CROP EXPERIMENT CANCELED!

Meath Co. Council unanimously passed two motions on 8 May, that are widely

expected

to force BASF to abandon an experiment with GM potatoes which it hoped to launch

this week at Summerhill, Co. Meath.

 

The Council's first motion declares Meath a GMO-free zone. This makes Meath the

sixth county on the island to prohibit GMO seeds and crops, along with Cavan,

Clare,

Fermanagh, Monaghan and Roscommon, and the towns of Galway, Navan, Newry and

Clonakilty.

The Council's second motion calls on the EPA to not allow the experimental

growing

of any GMO seeds or crops in Ireland. Councillors said the EPA's decision would

produce experimental transgenic potatoes that could not be placed on the market

either as animal feed or food, and that the EPA and BASF failed to apply for the

planning permission that is consequently required by law for re-zoning the

farmland

from agricultural to development use.

 

They also said the legal requirement imposed by the EPA for BASF to protect the

site with a high-security electrical fence does not conform with normal

agricultural

practice under Section 5 of the Planning Act. Frank Corcoran, Chairman of An

Taisce

(the National Trust for Ireland), said the Meath Co. Council decisions will

trigger

a lengthy legal procedure that will effectively prevent the release of GMO crops

in Meath for the foreseeable future.

 

Green Party Leader Trevor Sargent said, " Irish farmers join with Irish consumers

in saying we will not stand idly by and watch the green clean GM-free image

which

helps sell Irish food be destroyed by the commercial colonisation of BASF. "

http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6523

 

 

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what are you gonna do

when the oil runs out?