Tell India To Take A Stand Against GMOs
- by: Care2.com
- recipient: President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee
Peru banned Monsanto's genetically engineered crops. Hungary kicked Monsanto off its soil. Russia, Poland, and France all cut ties with Monsanto's dangerous corn strain.
Now India's national government has the opportunity to do its environment justice by banning GMO crop field testing in India for the next 10 years.
An expert committee appointed by India's Supreme Court called on India's national government to ban GMO crop field testing for 10 years to prevent herbicide-resistant crops, the contamination of non-GMO crops with GMO genes, and environmental damage.
Monsanto's monopolization of India's cottonseed market left farmers in debt by forcing them to purchase only Monsanto's expensive and unreliable seed variation--linking Monsanto to an estimated 200,000 farmer suicides. Now, fierce sustainability issues are adding to India's already problematic relationship with GMOs.
Tell India's government to listen to the experts! Halt GMO crop field trials before it's too late.
Dear President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee,
Please take the advice of India's top experts and implement a 10 year moratorium on all GMO crop field trials. Testing GMO crops on India's soil makes India dangerously vulnerable to unsustainable herbicide resistant crops and the contamination of organic crop strains.
Monsanto's GMO seeds have already made a destructive footprint in India's agricultural market by displacing local farmers in the name of big business. Now, these same seeds are threatening the livelihood of India's crop fields.
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Give experts the time they need to safely assess the impacts of GMO crops before moving forward with an environmental wildcard. Choose sustainability and halt GMO crop field testing!
Sincerely,
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