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Making Food into Plastic Death
Propaganda Alert: BASF is brown nosing the EU in an attempt to
infest all of Europe with mutated life, as once the seeds blow around,
the game is OVER. A very clever ploy similar to war. Once the attack
begins, it all but over. All organic farmers and their crops could be
destroyed forever from unknown genetic mutations that carry from plant
to plant and to boot, this GMO technology has no oversight, and seems to run
free stemming from mega-hogs like Monsanto and other big power dogs.
This would be called "hot death".
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BASF calls for EU
approval of "hot potato"
11 December 2007 - By Jeremy Smith - guardian.co.uk
BRUSSELS, Dec 11 (Reuters) - German chemicals group BASF
aims to secure European Union approval in the next few weeks for
farmers to grow its genetically modified (GMO) potato in
April, the first EU approval for GMO cultivation in a decade.
EU governments have not managed to agree on biotech foods and crops
for many years and repeatedly clash on the issue. No new GMO crop
has received an approval for growing since 1998.
The European Commission -- the EU's executive arm -- has authorised
a series of GMO products for import since 2004, but only thanks to a
legal procedure that gives it the legal power to issue a
rubberstamp approval when EU states fail to agree.
GMO cultivation is far more controversial and the EU now stands on
the brink of approving BASF's potato for growing, by that same legal
procedure. The problem is, the EU's environment chief, in charge of
the dossier, seems unwilling to approve it.
For BASF, that rubberstamp approval must come quickly if farmers are
to be able to plant its potato for the 2008 harvest.
Normally, the Commission acts fairly quickly in such cases. But the
company has been waiting since July, when EU ministers failed to
agree either to approve or reject its application.
"We still look forward to approval next year in time for commercial
cultivation," Hans Kast, president and CEO of BASF Plant Science,
told reporters in Brussels on Tuesday.
"April is the time when we need to get it into the ground. Our
farmers need to make up their minds soon after Christmas," he said.
Potatoes are usually harvested in Europe in September or October.
Known as Amflora, the potato is engineered to yield high amounts of
starch, eliminating the viscous gel-like substance amylose so it
contains only one starch ingredient: amylopectin.
It is not intended for human consumption but rather for industrial
use; for example, in the paper industry to make glossy magazine
coatings, in textiles for yarn sizing and as an additive in adhesive
or sprayable concrete.
The main markets for Amflora were likely to be France, Germany and
the Netherlands, Kast said.
LEGAL ACTION
The biotech industry, which insists that its products are as
safe as non-GMO equivalents, has long vented its frustration over
what it sees as the EU's delay in approving GMOs, saying it loses
time and money in not being allowed access to EU markets.
| Comment: Even though they scream safe,
they are lying outright, as the mutations spread, all previous
species die, it is well known. And they use the excuse as if
they are important, when they are actually very greedy. |
That frustration has been expressed in legal challenges, which
have also encouraged the European Commission to re-examine its
internal policy on biotech crops and foods.
| Comment: Looks like the EU should continue a
full 100% ban! |
The most famous example was when Argentina, Canada and the United
States filed against the EU executive at the World Trade
Organisation over the EU's de facto moratorium on new GMO
authorisations, which ran for some six years and ended in 2004.
The WTO found that the EU's effective blockade on new GMO imports
constituted "undue delay" and violated trade rules.
| Comment: Excuse me, undue delay? Fascists! |
More recently, in May, Pioneer Hi-Bred International -- a
subsidiary of DuPont Co -- filed a lawsuit against the Commission
over its alleged delay in submitting the company's application for
EU approval of its modified 1507 maize product.
Kast declined to be drawn over whether BASF might pursue a similar
path if the Commission delayed further in authorising the potato and
effectively prevented a 2008 harvest of Amflora.
"If we don't get it (authorisation) in time, we will review the
situation," he said.
"It would be a tremendous loss to BASF and to farmers. And the
starch industry is very competitive."
(Editing by Michael Roddy)
| Comment: Assuming a loss to farmers is
hypocritical at the least. |
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