Poland: Debate and vote on new GMO Act

The Polish parliament has chosen December 15, 2009 for a debate and vote on the new GMO Act that, if passed, will open the door for planting GM crops on Polish soil, based on EU standards that authorise co-existence between GM and non GM crops on a commercial scale. In spite of more than two years of constant lobbying, demonstrating and letter campaigning, the Tusk government has failed to introduce a ban of the controversial GM maize MON 810 which has now been banned in seven EU Countries, including Germany and France. It has also refused to maintain the previous government’s ban of all import and trading of GM seeds and plants.
 

The International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside has called to prevent this new act becoming law and to show the Polish government that there is serious international resistance to the genetically engineered pollution of the Polish countryside, with its 1.5 million small peasant farmsteads and fine farmhouse foods. They call to join the Polish colleagues in defiance of this attempt to defy the wishes of 70 % of Polish citizens and the majority of Polish farmers, and to write to the chairman of the Polish Parliament – with a copy to them - demanding a veto of this new GMO Act and a ban of both MON 810 and any future GMO seeds and plants that the EU may decide to authorise. The chairman of the Polish Parliament is Bronislaw Komorowski

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