FW: Action Alert: GE rice threat in India

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ACTION ALERT

GE rice in India

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Please write to India's APEDA and forward this mail.

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Hi friends,

 

India is at a critical juncture. Food regulatory authorities there have

approved field trials of genetically engineered (GE) rice. India's Supreme

Court has delayed the trials with a number of conditions, but they won't be

enough to stop field trials for long.

 

It's time to act. India's food regulatory authorities need to receive a

blast of messages from around the world - from people in countries which

currently import Indian rice - to understand how costly and unwise these GE

field trials would be.

 

Please

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message to the food-for-export regulatory authority (APEDA).

 

Global rice traders and marketers could reject GE contaminated rice products

from India, costing farmers dearly. Greenpeace's recent report on the

economic impacts of last year's US rice contamination scandal shows that GE

field trials can cause massive economic losses.[1]

 

GE contamination spreads, and they should know it. While basmati growing

areas in India are GE free, non-basmati rice growing areas aren't.

Non-basmati rice is also a major export crop. GE field trials in non-basmati

growing areas may contaminate both types of rice which are frequently grown

near or next to each other.

 

Naturally, there are Indian farmers who also oppose field trials of GE rice.

Our message to the food regulatory authority is also addressed to the

farmer's group, the All India Rice Exporters' Association, to show them our

solidarity.

 

This is the second time this month we're writing to you about GE. You've

been fantastic! The European Commission's ears are ringing with the sound of

over 35,000 messages sent in under 10 days. Sometimes the Commission's

servers bounced/returned protest emails because there were just so many

coming in at once. Can you forward this message to friends and help us beat

that target?

 

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ACTION NOW

 

Thanks,

Matthias, Rajesh, Eoin and everyone at Greenpeace

 

 

 

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