P-04-583 Ban all Growing and Selling of all GM seeds / Foods and Animal / Fish Feed in Wales
P-04-583 Ban all Growing and Selling of all GM seeds / Foods and Animal / Fish Feed in Wales
We
call on the National Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to
establish, as far as that is consistent with EU law, an Act banning all GM
food, plants and seeds from being grown and sold in Wales, as well as GMO used
in all animal, game and fish feed. Food sovereignty and health is a crucial
issue to the future of Wales and the world and is something that will further
positively distinguish Welsh food products in the worldwide market. As
presented by the great work done by GM Free Cymru and by key scientists such as
Irina Ermakova, Professor Vyvyan Howard and Malcolm Hooper, Dr Stanley Ewen, Dr
Arpad Pusztai, Manuela Malatesta and colleagues at the Universities of Pavia
and Urbino in Italy to name a few, there is now overwhelming evidence available
about the inherent dangers of GM foods.
Additional Information:
GM
Cymru’s Dr Brian John states that "The European Commission appears to be
intent upon issuing one contentious GM authorization after another, basing its
decisions upon highly selective and biased research by the applicants
themselves, and taking guidance from a despised European food safety authority
which has lost the confidence of NGO’s and consumer groups across Europe".
Politicians are blindly promoting the merits of the large biotechnology
companies such as Monsanto in spite of massive opposing public and scientific
voices. Patenting nature and intervening through genetic engineering is also an
act against nature itself and brings in to question morality, ethics, natural
and human rights. An increasing number of countries such as Hungary, Austria,
Bulgaria, Greece, Japan, Switzerland, the Basque country and Peru, to name but
a few, are now expelling the chemical and bio tech giant Monsanto and
eliminating all GM crops, seed, plants and foods from their country.
Petition raised by: Gruffydd Meredith
Date Petition first
considered by Committee:
23 September 2014
Number of signatures: 13
Business type: Petition
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
Status: For consideration
First published: 16/09/2014