You can go online to place your vote for or against the motion. The opportunity is available until Friday afternoon (12/11/10). We would strongly encourage organics and natural food supporters to go online to vote against this proposition and to pass this opportunity on to as many like-minded friends as you can. To vote just requires one click and no sign up, name or email collected.
The reality IS that GM is NOT in any way compatible with or complimentary to organic, biological and therefore sustainable food production. Why?? Well despite what the people getting financially wealthy from this technology say - i.e. multi-national companies such as Monsanto and BASF and the scientists they back to spruik for them - the very presence of GM crops in an open space means that organic and other non-GM crops will inevitably be contaminated via cross-pollination. This is happening wherever GM crops are grown, and is well-documented. American farmers who were sold on GM ten years ago are now turning against it and non-GM farmers who have had their farms contaminated by GM have been sued for 'using' the patented products!
You can listen to an interesting podcast by Phil Chandler from Biobees for evidence regarding this farmer backlash and the associated issues against GM usage. Phil is well know as the "barefoot bee keeper", an innovative chemcial-free bee keeper, who through his work is helping save the bees from demise as a result of factors such as GM crops, non-organic farmings' extensive spraying of insecticides, other air pollution chemicals and a highly destructive virus destroying bee populations in many countries in Europe, the U.S.A. and others. Australia is holding on 'by a thread' against that virus invading here, but we already have all the other problems.
Just because the natural balance Mother Nature bestows isn't always convenient for us, it doesn't mean it's wise for us to mess with her complicated, synergistic ecosystem in an aggressive or forced manner on several levels simultaneously, which results in a relatively fast acting and complex set of interactions, which have not evolved gradually by natural selection (i.e plants and animals) and cannot be fully anticipated or understood.
This is why we think GM is possibly the most dangerous technology of all, because NOBODY understands or can possibly predict the potential ramifications of interfering with natural process at that level.
Another major issue at stake here, is freedom of choice, i.e. your choice to have access to fully natural, uncontaminated, organically grown foods and to knowing exactly what is in processed foods you buy (lobbying the Govt. to uphold mandatory, full disclosure labelling of GM ingredients on foods is highly important if you want continued informed choice on what you eat).
Though this is not a definitive survey, it is run by The Economist and will
be used by the media as 'evidence' one way or the other.
It is important your freedom of food choice and biological food production gets well represented in these debates!
It is important your freedom of food choice and biological food production gets well represented in these debates!
So please, if you care about keeping our food and our bees GM-free -
VOTE AGAINST THIS MOTION at http://tinyurl.com/3yk4xj6 - they
don't need your name or email address, and it only takes a second.
There's some very interesting, informative commentary to be read from the "Comments From The Floor" section to the right of the online page.
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