submitted by: Sandra Finely/Canadian correpondent
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Bill C-474 will require: “an analysis of potential harm to export markets be conducted before the sale of any new genetically engineered seed is permitted.”
The industry is putting an all-out effort into defeating the Bill.
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BACKGROUND FOR NEWCOMERS:
This is pretty simple and pretty much common sense. Europeans will not accept shipments of wheat or flax (for example) if it is contaminated with GE (genetically – engineered) seeds.
Buyers of Canadian grain get angry when they buy contaminated product, witness the recent case of “Triffid” GE flax. Farmers lose big markets. The GE contamination is now a huge on-going cost to everyone.
It isn’t a widely-known issue in Canada because we lost the battle to require labeling of GE food products. The money of the chem. – biotech industry bought, among others, the Consumers Association in that battle.
The Europeans won the labeling battle. But the chem-biotech corporations do not respect the wishes or the interests of the population. Instead, they have been trying for years now to force GE crops into Europe.
Nor does the Govt of Canada respect the wishes of the Europeans (or of Canadians). The Govt of Canada launches legal actions through the WTO (World Trade Organization) against the Europeans, on behalf of the industry, claiming unfair trade practices. More
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