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Food Freedom Action Items
Dear Health Freedom Supporter,
Right now, as you can read in detail below, the Uber-Cartel, Big Pharma, Big Agribiz, Big Chema, Big Biotech and Big Medica, which are all the same industry, at base, is planning to take away the right of speech questioning or criticizing GMO food in India, just as the FDA has tried so hard to take away our right to know what food and food components can do for us, gagging free speech. What happens in one country will be globalized rapidly. Devious and dangerous laws and regulations are typically enacted in a vulnerable country, then quickly globalized rapidly to “HARMonize” through the WTO, WHO, UN and other unelected non-representational bodies whose policies are set by the Uber-Cartel, not by us.
If we believe that freedom of speech, freedom of the press or other Constitutional rights assert themselves, then we have already lost. Every independent study of GMO food or feed shows that GMOs are dangerous, expensive, increase the use of dangerous agricultural chemicals, degrade the environment and cause a host of increasingly serious health problems as every cell in the body (and the body of fetuses) is permeated by foreign DNA causing totally unpredictable results. There is no scientifically defensible excuse for GMOs, yet their very existence in our food supply is hidden from us since the FDA makes it illegal to label them as is required in nearly every other country in the world.
“Don’t tell and the people won’t ask” seems to be the FDA watchword. That is not good enough for me and I am sure that it is not good enough for you.
Please take the Action Steps below calling for an immediate ban on GMOs, and help to push back the total industrialization of the food supply, which will be the law of the land if S. 510 is passed.
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After you take these Action Steps, and take the survey, then it’s time to use your Freedom Mouse to share these items and these issues with your contacts, asking them to take the actions and forward them to their contacts in turn, sending this information around the internet as fast and as far as we Mouse Warriors can do.
Thank you for your activism. Your genes and your future are at stake here.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
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Bill For a Biotech Authority: It’s Draconian and Full of Scientific Absurdities
by Pushpa M. Bhargava
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2010/20100502/edit.htm#3
When Mr Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister for Environment and Forests, put an indefinite moratorium on the release of genetically modified Bt brinjal on February 9, he actually made a far more important statement that India is not tied down to the apron strings of any multinational corporation or country, specifically, the United States.
This came as a surprise to the rich and the powerful, the politicians and the bureaucrats (exceptions granted), who benefit by India’s being an appendage of MNCs and the US. A lot of what has happened in the country in the last few years had made the above clan fully complacent about Mr Ramesh’s decision — that irrespective of the enormity of the evidence and public opinion against Bt brinjal, he would permit its commercialization and thus open irreversibly the floodgates for US control of Indian agriculture, of our food security and sovereignty, farmers’ security and the security of the rural sector.
And whosoever controls Indian agriculture, de facto controls India. The unpleasant fact is that the above clan, comprising a minuscule proportion of Indians, believes it stands to gain enormously by such a sell out. However, Mr Ramesh disappointed them. We congratulated him for his bold decision but also realised that we have only won the battle and not the war. So, Nina Federoff of the US who was here when Mr Ramesh announced his decision, almost certainly to influence his decision in favor of Bt brinjal, did not return to the US empty-handed.
Nina was probably told by Mr Ramesh’s opponents in the government, “Don’t worry. We have ways and means of legally reversing Mr Ramesh’s decision. We will pass a Bill to set up a National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority (NBRA) under the Department of Biotechnology which will take away the power of decision-making in regard to GMOs from the Ministry of Environment. We would thus be able to do what you want us to do”.
It has not been their concern as to what happens to 99 per cent of the “less fortunate” Indians. The Bill must be the most draconian Bill. Consider some of its provisions.
*Section 63 says, “Whoever, without any evidence or scientific record misleads the public about the safety of the organisms (GMOs) and (their) products, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to one year and with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees or with both”. And who will decide whether there is “evidence or scientific record”?
A three-member authority which will be chosen (probably in consultation with Monsanto and its supporters in India) by a selection committee that would be easy to influence, as it would have no nominees of the civil society that will bear the brunt of the failure of a GM crop or the harm caused by it.
No matter how strong the evidence is or how good the scientific record is and no matter how flawless the reputation of the person criticizing the release of a GMO is, the regulatory authority can brush all that aside and put the person in jail.
This writer wonders what it will do to foreign critics with an impeccable scientific record and reputation. Ask for their extradition?
The National Biotechnology Regulatory Authority (NBRA) will work under the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) in the setting up of which this writer had a significant role and which this writer has known reasonably well as a member of its first Scientific Advisory Committee.
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) is today the most ardent vendor of GMOs in the country. Thus, the vendor will be the regulator which would be against the principle of natural justice. The Appellate Tribunal proposed in the Bill is an eye-wash as it will also work under the DBT. Strangely, it shall not be bound by rules of evidence contained in our Evidence Act.
Agriculture is a State subject and well over 10 states, cutting across political affiliations had, de facto or de jure, expressed opposition to Bt brinjal. The Bill (Section 34) now envisages only an advisory role for the state government in regard to release of GMOs. They cannot oppose it, even though agriculture is a State subject.
The Bill is full of scientific absurdities. Thus, it calls “transformation, polyploidy induction and mutation breeding” as “natural processes”. They are all human-controlled processes to bring about genetic changes.
The Bill’s definition of “modern biotechnology” is ridiculous and highly restrictive. It is like saying that by “modern science” we mean “modern biology”.
The Bill does not encourage a totally independent laboratory to do all the required tests, to be controlled jointly by all the stakeholders as stated in the proposal for such a laboratory that this writer had submitted to the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) at their request, which proposal Mr Ramesh has supported in principle.
No reasons are given as to why a new authority. It is not stated as to what is wrong with the present system.
The Bill is against any kind of transparency (Section 27.1). Given the situation in the country in respect of, for example, corruption and unqualified commitment of the government to MNCs and the US, it is most likely that GMOs will be released without any test whatsoever or just face-saving tests done superficially.
If the Bill is passed, there will be only two alternatives for our countrymen: to make sure that the Bill is not notified or is repealed in a reasonable time; or to begin the Third War of Independence!
The writer is a former Vice-Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission and founder-director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
