GM wheat planted in Australia, in your food and on shelves by 2015 says Government

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  1. PeterD

    PeterD Junior Member

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    not happy news this time to report, sorry....

    his year's GM wheat trials have begun, with plantings in the ACT, NSW and WA and claims by the Federal Government that Australians will be eating GM bread by 2015.
    GM wheat will be planted in field trials across Australia this year, and our government science body, the CSIRO, plans to have GM bread on supermarket shelves by 2015. This year's field trials are scientific scale trials, which means most are under one hectare in size. But if CSIRO succeeds with their plan for Australia to become the first country in the world to approve GM wheat, we could be facing large-scale commercial field trials of GM wheat within the next two years.

    That means two things; global biotech patents on our daily bread, and inevitable contamination of Australian farmers' conventional and organic wheat crops.

    While Australia’s GM wheat trials have been dressed-up as 'objective', scientific research, a Greenpeace investigation has revealed that global GM companies including Monsanto, Limagrain and BASF are the money behind the trials and are partnered with our so-called public research bodies to push GM wheat approval in Australia.

    One of the clearest signs of the power of GM company dollars is the flimsy excuse for a risk assessment that the Australian Government performed before giving the all-clear for corporate scientists and their global biotech partners to release experimental GM wheat into the field. The Government recognises that "Gene technology has the potential to cause unintended effects due to random insertion of the introduced genetic material", but they go on to dismiss the risk of genetic pollution as negligible.

    They also dismiss any risk of contamination of non-GM crops from this year's GM wheat field trials, even though all local and international evidence shows that GM can't be contained in the field. The biggest GM contamination event in history started with a small scale field trial of Bayer's GM rice. The single contamination event cost the rice industry $1.2 billion.

    If you don't want GM bread and pasta, if you don't want our farmers to have to fight to prevent contamination of their wheat crop from Monsanto's patented GMOs, tell our Agriculture Minister that you don't want to eat GM bread and will hold his government responsible for any contamination from the GM wheat trials he has approved. Click here to email the Minister, or call his office on (02) 6277 7520.
     
  2. matto

    matto Junior Member

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    Everyone who wants GM ingredients in their daily bread (if you dont already) raise your hand.
    This is where the line should be drawn for untested genetically manipulated food. Not only is their a danger of cross contamination with traditional varieties, the process of GM research will tie up any breeding lines available. With Monsanto buying into WA's Intergrain and having been allowed access to all their seed, this will effectively stop any traits they have from being bred by traditional plant breeders. Not what we need in this time of climate shift.
     
  3. Young Permy Couple

    Young Permy Couple Junior Member

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    PeterD,

    thanks for the heads up. Can u repost the email link? It didn't work. cheers
     
  4. matto

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  5. milifestyle

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    Might as well start eating plastic... fake food is just around the corner...
     
  6. Terra

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    Of course the likes of Monsanto cant have large scale grain production countries GM free , countries that dont want it eventually will have no GM free supply
     

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