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ORGANIC WORLD NEWSFLASH

Genetic Engineering 

" ORGANIC WORLD is fundamentally opposed to genetic engineering and excludes the use of genetically modified organisms (GMD'S). In organic agriculture this is in alignment with International standards for organic agriculture, in particular the IFOAM (INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE MOVEMENTS) guidelines." The reason for exclusion include:

Genetic systems which prevents seeds from germinating in the next generation. Farmers who buy such seeds will be able to produce a crop, but will not be able to sow seed saved from their harvest in the next year. This "Terminator technology" threatens farmers independence and the food     security of over a billion resource-poor farmers in Third World countries. This is an immoral technique that robs farming communities of their age-old right to save seed and their role as plant breeder’s.

 

Environmental threats if the genetic systems cross-pollinate with neighboring conventional crops. These farmers might find yields drastically reduced, due to non-germination of seeds. Research in Denmark has shown that genetically-manipulated genes (transgenes) in crops can make their way into nearby weeds under field conditions. This is already a serious concern for those which have been put into crops by design, the threat from genetic errors are even harder to quantify and may well be impossible to correct.

 

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The risks to human and animal health has not yet been established over long   term and the dangerous effects might be detrimental for future generations. Animal rights and ethical standards for the treatment of animals are infringed.

 

Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture.

 

Long term economic sustainability of GMD'S not tested.

  

Genetic engineering is a new system for preventing farmers re-planting seed  and its invention only serve the profit making biotech giants.  

 

Please circulate this information amongst your colleagues and friends to increase awareness of genetic manipulation for the sake of human mankind and his environment. Lets hope we can bring this technology to a halt and may man strive to regain his spiritual consciousness to lead him back to the source of divine oneness with all living beings.

 

 

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