le 30 juillet, 2010
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Rice
Global Action: We ask all governments around the world to protect consumers and farmers, their crops and fields by rejecting Bayer’s GE rice, and to stop GE rice field trials. (April 2009)
Greenpeace has launched a cyberaction against GE rice - take action here
Rice is daily food for half of the world's population. Genetically engineered (GE) rice, on the other hand, is a threat to our health, our agriculture and our biodiversity.
Most countries have shied away from allowing risky experimentation with the world’s most important staple crop and at present, no GE rice is grown commercially anywhere in the world. But Bayer, the German chemical giant, has genetically manipulated rice to withstand higher doses of a toxic pesticide called glufosinate, which is considered to be so dangerous to humans and the environment that it will soon be banned from Europe.
April 2009: In the coming weeks, the European Union will also decide whether or not this GE rice can enter EU countries, appear on supermarket shelves and end up on our dinner plates. If the European Union approves the import of Bayer GE rice, farmers in the US and elsewhere may soon start planting the manipulated crop.
Golden Rice (Vitamin A Rice)
Scientists Denounce "Unethical" Use Of Children in GM Feeding Trials
March 2009
It has been brought to light that three clinical experiments are being conducted which involve the feeding of genetically modified Golden Rice to human subjects (adults and children.).
The feeding trials are being conducted by the Tufts University School of Medicine (US) and information released on the US Clinical Trials web site indicate that Chinese children suffering from varying degrees of Vitamin A deficiency have been used in the feeding trials.
However, a group of senior scientists/academics strongly condemn the experiments saying that the conduct is a severe breach of medical ethics and have called for these GM feeding experiments to be terminated immediately. The three Projects are said to have breached the Nuremberg Code/medical ethics code on a number of counts, such as the use of very young children for the experiments.
They also pointed out that the Golden Rice is an untested and unapproved GM variety which may well harm health rather than improve it. This rice is engineered to overproduce beta carotene, and there is an extensive medical literature showing that retinoids that can be derived from beta carotene are both toxic and may cause birth defects. As such, the concerned scientists believe the use of human subjects (especially children) for the feeding experiments is completely unacceptable and should be stopped.
