Biotech Industry Pushes to Release Suicide Gene in Plants

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http://organicconsumers.org/un.htm

 

Consumer, farmer, and environmental organizations across the globe are

mobilizing to stop the legalization and commercialization of the

controversial Terminator Gene Technology, whereby seeds are genetically

engineered to commit suicide after one growing season. The biotech

industry and seed companies support the Terminator Technology, because

it prevents farmers from saving their seeds and forces them to buy seeds

every year.

 

In addition, scientists are concerned that this could lead to killing

off a wide range of crops and plants, as pollen from plants with the

Terminator gene spreads unpredictably in the wind. After a massive

international campaign in 1998, Monsanto Corporation announced they were

shelving plans to commercialize the Terminator, while the United Nations

(UN) called for a global ban. But on February 11, 2005 renewed efforts

to overturn the worldwide ban were launched at a UN conference in

Bangkok.

 

Learn more and sign the Organic Consumers Association's petition to the

UN to terminate the Terminator Gene.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/un.htm

 

Please also forward this message to interested friends and colleagues.

(source: Organic Consumers Association http://www.organicconsumers.org)

 

Thank you!