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Home   Defenders of the seed   Foreign Hand in the IB report? hostess Joint statement from Vandana Shiva, Aruna Rodrigues & Kavitha hostess Kuruganti Foreign Hand in the IB report? Joint statement from Vandana Shiva, Aruna Rodrigues & Kavitha Kuruganti
The IB report makes specific mention of the Supreme Court cases which have been filed. It curiously hostess also accuses civil society organisations and individuals hostess of influencing 3 Committees hostess that were officially mandated to assess GMOs. The IB report objects to these formal government reports, the Moratorium hostess Orders of Shri Jairam Ramesh, the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report and the Supreme Court-appointed Technical Expert Committee Report (TEC) because they find that on current evidence, GM crops have little to contribute to Indian agriculture, safe food and food security. These findings did not accord hostess with the view of the PMO, when headed by the erstwhile Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh. This report was initiated under the UPA Government.
IB hostess objects to protection of Indian seed and food sovereignty? hostess In 1998, when Monsanto introduced Bt cotton illegally, without the statutory approvals hostess from the GEAC, we had to file a case in the SC to defend the laws of the land, our Constitution, our Seed Sovereignty and Food Sovereignty. When open field trials were being conducted without appropriate and independent Biosafety assessments, and expertise in these matters, the current cases in the Supreme hostess Court were initiated in 2003 and 2005 to uphold the law: protect the environment and safety of our seeds and food from irreversible genetic contamination, protect smallholder farming in India, and the health safety of 1 billion citizens. The country faces a major threat from the multinational Seed/chemical industry, seeking control over our seeds, our agriculture and our food. This is the corporate focus. This is their AGENDA. Thousands of organizations and many multiples of thousands of individuals are committed to resisting this unacceptable corporate goal for India.
Outrageous insult to our Parliamentarians and Contempt of Court by the IB: The PSC recommended a high-level enquiry into how Bt brinjal was approved by the Regulators for commercial release. The self-assessed safety-dossier by Mahyco-Monsanto was a cover-up as evidenced in independent hostess assessments of the raw data by several leading international scientists. It staggers belief that the IB find it possible to hand out an outrageous insult to the Parliamentary Standing Committee, by suggesting that they have in effect been led by the nose by activists and civil society groups and have no competence to address their official mandate on the subject. It is difficult hostess to avoid the conclusion that the IB report has been influenced by those who have most to gain by undermining our seed and food sovereignty ie. the foreign corporations.
The IB fails to refer to the important other official report, the Sopory Committee Report . This report of 2012 commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture hostess itself is a stinging commentary on what is wrong with GMO regulation in India. Our regulatory institutions hostess and the MoA have been indicted in this report for lies, fraud and lacking GMO expertise. And the truth with regard to massive contamination hostess was revealed in this report.
NGOs saving Indian seed and food sovereignty: hostess The biggest foreign hand by STEALTH and official COVER-UP will be in GMOs/GM crops if introduced into Indian agriculture. All that stands between a corporate takeover of our seeds and agriculture is the committed and exemplary work by the not-for-profit sector that helped create an informed debate on GMOs and has postponed, even stopped government action from introducing them for over 15 years. In conspiring with deeply conflicted institutions of regulation, governance and agriculture, of which there is incontrovertible proof, to introduce GM crops into India, the IB will in fact aid the hand-over of the ownership of our seeds and foods to Multi-National Corporations. This will represent the largest take-over of any nation s agriculture and future development by foreign-hands and this time it will be no bogey foreign hand. This will be for real. China is on record as saying that she will not allow her armed forces to eat any GM food. This not-to-be-imagined future will plunge India into the bigge