Monsanto and the rest of the GMO crowd have really done a number on India, and while there is a growing movement fighting back, they are most definitely facing an uphill battle as the industry co-opted the government with wholesale bribes and blackmail decades ago and it's now tied to pretty much any foreign aid monies or even investment monies that India may recieve - or not. A cautionary tale for the rest of us if nothing else.
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original-financialexpressDoes India need GM food crops?Industry is suppressing harmful effects of GM cropsPV SATHEESHSo, there is a “historic” order of the Supreme Court, which has permitted the ongoing GM trials to continue in the country but under severe restrictions imposed. The most important of them are: ensuring a minimum 200 meter isolation distance (between GM crops and non GM crops); ensuring that a senior scientist is in charge of monitoring; before a GM crop is permitted for field trials, GEAC must put all facts before the citizens of this country telling us how toxic is the crop and how much of allergy it can produce in humans and animals; and put up a clear protocol and establish that the contamination will not be more than 0.01%.
This is a tough order and probably must have put the fear of God in the biotech industry. But knowing the way the industry has manipulated law and court orders around the world, one is skeptic whether this order will be followed to the truthful end by the regulators. It is astounding that even before the ink had dried from the order, GEAC had claimed that SC had vacated its earlier interim order banning GM trials. That this was a mischievous interpretation of the court order is not the only crime of GEAC. Highly distressing was the note of glee and triumph in the GEAC press release. While its mandate is to protect environment and not the industry, GEAC has acted as an agent of the biotech industry. One would not be surprised if such a trumpet of triumph had been sounded by the department of biotechnology whose very existence is linked to the spread of biotechnology or the ministry of commerce for whom FDI is more important than food and death
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