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French annul ruling against planting modified corn
France’s highest administrative body has annulled rules suspending the planting of genetically modified corn, but two key ministries quickly said the government is still looking for ways to block such crops.
The Council of State, acting on a complaint from U.S.-based agricultural company Monsanto and other interested parties, on Monday annulled two Agriculture Ministry rulings from 2007 and 2008 that suspended the planting of Monsanto MON 810 modified corn.
Monday’s ruling cited a failure to establish not only the urgency of suspending genetically modified corn but also the existence of a health risk to humans, animals or the environment.
The Agriculture and Ecology ministries “took note” of the decision, but voiced continued opposition to having GMOs on French soil because of what the agencies said were dangling questions about their environmental impact.
“These persistent uncertainties lead the government to maintain its opposition to cultivating MON 810 corn on French territory,” the statement said. The government “is studying, as of now, the means to attain this objective.”
France is the European Union’s agricultural powerhouse and opposition to GMOs is traditionally strong here.
Others also criticized Monday’s ruling.
EU lawmaker Corinne Lepage, former French environment minister, said she “deplores” the decision, contending that it reduces any room for maneuver nations have on the GMO issue. She wants European laws to be adapted to give countries a “solid juridical basis to ban GMO cultivation.”
For Greenpeace “judicial procedures must not mask the true fundamental problem.”
Monsanto has said its engineered MON 810 corn seed has been approved as safe for human consumption and been used commercially around the world for 15 years.
Source:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/2011/11/french-council-annuls-ruling-against-modified-corn/1954271
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All Genetically Modified food should be stopped immediately. But then there is a lot of money involved and that is what the world is about —- money —– forget good health.
At least all food produced in this manner must be labelled as so – then we can pick and choose what we put into our bodies
France is screwing up. Monsanto must be stopped. GM food plants are very dangerous to all humans and animals and are an impending disaster. GM food and vaccines are good for one thing only: massive population reduction! Anyone who partakes in them has been victimized by PTB that want us “useless eaters” dead or at least sterile.