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Greenpeace volunteers dressed as vegetables meet Pawar; protest against GM
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Tuesday, 09 April, 2013, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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Our Bureau, New Delhi
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fiogf49gjkf0d Greenpeace India volunteers dressed as vegetables went to meet agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday, but as he was not present, the volunteers submitted the online petition, which represented the feelings of the Indian public to his office.
Meanwhile, the organisation conducted a nation-wide online poll and 97% of the people polled felt that going in for GM crops was not the answer for food security.
The growing demand for ‘No to GM crops’ is getting louder by the day as more and more scientific evidences point towards the adverse impacts of GM crops on human health, environment, farming and socio-economic framework of the country, states Greenpeace.
Last month, the Coalition for GM Free India, released a compilation of mounting scientific evidence on the adverse impacts of GM crops / foods, this comprised of more than 300 independent reviewed papers.
Reports by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture and the Supreme Court appointed Technical Expert Committee have questioned the regulatory mechanism in India and have suggested that it is inefficient and insufficient.
“Given the controversial nature of the technology and the lack of regulatory structure in the country to assess this technology, India should be taking a precautionary approach to GM crops. Instead minister of agriculture is promoting GM crops under the fallacious argument that it is needed to feed the starving billions in this country,” said Neha Saigal, campaigner, sustainable agriculture, Greenpeace India. Greenpeace’s report “GM crops: No panacea for food security” has exposed the false argument.
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