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News Alerts | Appeal to stop Bt brinjal before it is too late!

Appeal to stop Bt brinjal before it is too late!

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published Published on Oct 14, 2009   modified Modified on Oct 14, 2009

Greenpeace, in collaboration with several civil society organisations, has launched a peoples’ campaign against ‘genetically contaminated food.’ The idea is to get thousands of citizens to write and send faxes to the Union Environment Minister Jairam Raesh before a high-powered government committee called the GEAC approves commercial cultivation in India of Bt brinjal.

 

The activists believe that urgent action is required before the process of contaminating our food supply forever kicks off with the government help. Following is the text of the letter sent to the citizens to fax to the minister after marking their signatures. (if you wish to send the fax directly to the minister, go to fax directly to Jairam Ramesh , or go to Please take action or Click here to stop them before it's too late , according to the appeal issued and backed by several citizens’ organisations)

 

The text as received by im4change.org is as follows:

 

Dear Minister,

 

I am one of over 41,000 Indian citizens who have joined the campaign against genetically-contaminated food.

 

As a result of our campaign, three Indian companies have already committed to a GE-free policy.  More than 10 other major companies have indicated their willingness to become GE free. Time, and my efforts, will tell whether we can get other companies to move as well.

 

While I continue to pressurize corporate India to adopt a GE-free policy in perpetuity, I am shocked to learn that my own government is essentially paving the way for widespread and irreversible contamination of our food supply by allowing GE food crops into the market.

 

I am aware that the GEAC – a department that reports to your Ministry – is meeting tomorrow to decide on commercialization of Bt Brinjal. Should the GEAC go ahead with this decision, it will have militated against your own stated opposition to GE food crops.

 

More importantly, any such decision will be at odds with the aspirations and preferences of consumers across the country.

 

I am part of a large and rapidly growing community of people who are opposed to genetically-contaminated food per se – whether this is advocated by the corporations that operate in our markets, or our own government – as such food poses grave and irreversible risks to both human health and the environment.

 

As an elected representative of the people and a public official with a reputation for accessibility to the electorate, I call on you to protect public health and respect consumer choice by not giving the go-ahead to any GE food crops at your GEAC meeting tomorrow.

 

How future generations of Indians view your environmental legacy depends entirely on your taking the right stand on this issue. I trust you will act in the interests of  the consumers and farmers of India, rather than in the interests of the few.

 

Sincerely,

 

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