The GMO situation in Europe culminated with a petition Dec/07   submitted to 
the German Government
_http://itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/Bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=603
_ (http://itc.na
pier.ac.uk/e-Petition/Bundestag/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=603) 
The following is a rough translation .
Is this matter dead in North America or what's happening?
 
 
 
     
Biotechnology - genetic engineering: Cultivation and new  permission of 
genetically changed organisms
Submitted through: Bernhard  Kletzenbauer on Monday, 17 December 2007    
With the Petition it is to be achieved that genetically  changed organisms 
(GVOs) are not patented and are not without exception  legally forbidden in the 
land and forestry. 
With the Petition it is to  be prevented that the biological variety is lost 
in of Germany soils and  agricultural products through pollution with GVOs 
always. The sensitive  ecological equilibrium of all natural organisms must 
remain preserved.  

Reason: 
Incontestable fact is that set free organisms are  completely backgetable 
from nature never more; also not GVOs, which later  prove as large danger. They 
remain limited not to the place of origin, but  increase inexorably.
Past, genetic changes in organisms show that the  results are unforeseeable, 
and genetic manipulation in the agriculture no  reliable method represents.
Poison manufacturers and large seeds  companies aim at a world-wide 
monopolistic position. By means of patented,  genetically changed seeds, which are to 
become dependent on these  companies only once out-germinated (terminator 
technology) farmers.
The  genetically changed plants cross with related wild plants and with  
kind-same plants from biological cultivation. Thus soon the entire  existence of 
this kind is contaminated by foreign genes with unknown  consequences. Release 
of genetically changed kinds makes breeding work for  many decades worthless.
Follow a genetic pollution are unforeseeable  and often unfavorable for 
humans and nature. Genetic changes can be made  purposefully, but work after the 
method of trial and error.
Since an  unimpaired coexistence of natural and for genetically is not 
possible  changed kinds, German citizens at the end would be forced to eat  
exclusively genetically changed agriculture products. A freedom of  election does not 
exist no more, as soon as all disappeared genetically  unchanged products.
Past purity requirements of the food cannot be kept  no more.
By unforeseeable education of new protein materials into the  GVO it can come 
to the occurrence of new allergies.
The combination of  total herbicide and resistant useful plants does not 
produce ever  dagewesene mono-kulturen. The susceptibility of these monokulturen  
opposite diseases and parasits one will try to adjust with more poisons  and 
for genetic manipulation - a vicious circle develops.
Nature will  form fast resistant kinds against new poisons, to near-breed so 
that one  new superweeds, instead of reducing it.
Genetic manipulation in the  agriculture produces no lasting values for later 
generations, but destroys  their irreplaceable natural bases of life.  




   

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