|
|
GM-FREE BRAZIL
Almost an open door for GMOs in Brazil
Congress gives the green light for the replication of
modified seeds in this country
The Provisory Measure (PM) approved by the Brazil´s
Chamber of Deputies on November 12th confirmed a pro-transgenics
trend at the very heart of President´s Lula Government.
The MP paved the way for the commercialization of
genetically modified soya in 2004. At the same time, the
government sent to the Parliament a bill proposal (PL)
that, theoretically, accepts most of the anti-transgenics
movement.
Both proposals confirm that Lula and his government's
decisory nucleus decided to put apart Minister of the
Environment Marina Silva, the main allied of the anti-transgenics
movement.
With the authorization for replication of modified seeds
and the liberation of the commercialization of genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) in 2004, both measures found in
the PM, president Lula's government sent an important
signal for the pro-transgenics deputies in the Parliament:
that he forgot his electoral commitments. He guaranteed in
his government program that would apply the precautionary
principle and even reised the possibility of running a
five moratorium for OGM. By doing so he paved the way for
the defenders of the transgenics in the Congress to change
the PL (actually, they are majority in the commission that
analyzes the PL in the Chamber).
The government also nominated federal deputy Paulo Pimenta,
of the Worker´s Party (PT), to report on the PM. Pimenta
is one of the main voices of the big landowners and soya
producers of Rio Grande do Sul State, through which
entered the illegal transgenic seeds smuggled from
Argentina.
Pimenta is also one of the deputies of PT who in
April visited the facilities of Monsanto in the USA and
South Africa, in tour funded by the American embassy.
Pimenta now plans to authorize the companies licensed by
Monsanto in Brazil to multiply transgenic seeds - even
before the liberation!
By authorizing the multiplication of GM seeds Monsanto and
its deputies eye at reinforcing the "de facto" they have
been putting in practice in Brazil.
The bill in the Chamber will runs under the regime of
constitutional urgency, suggested by the government, what
forces the voting by December 14. In this period, it will
be fundamental we have your support. Please, send deputies
the following message:
"We members of the social movement organized
internationally, from different parts of the world, ask
the Brazilian Congressmen who are now discussing a
national Law on Biosafety to take into account:
1. that Brazil will become by the end of 2003 the largest
world producer and exporter of soy due to the country´s
condition of genetically modified organisms free;
2. the scientific principle of precaution, already adopted
by the Constitution of the French Republic, when dealing
with such strategic subject;
3. that in any place of the world nor defenders of the
transgênicos nor its opponents developed conclusive
scientific studies on the safety of those organisms for
the consumers and for the environment;
4. that the Brazilian biological diversity is possibly the
largest of the planet, what demands successive mechanisms
to guarantee its integrity against the contamination by
non natural organisms.
Yours,
---
Send to:
Dep.SilasBrasileiro@camara.gov.br
Dep.DarcisioPerondi@camara.gov.br
Dep.KatiaAbreu@camara.gov.br
Dep.YedaCrusius@camara.gov.br
Dep.FernandoFerro@camara.gov.br
Dep.JoaoGrandao@camara.gov.br
Dep.JosePimentel@camara.gov.br
Dep.JosiasGomes@camara.gov.br
Dep.lucichoinacki @camara.gov.br
Dep.pauloPimenta@camara.gov.br
Dep.AbelardoLupion@camara.gov.br
Dep.CelcitaPinheiro@camara.gov.br
Dep.KatiaAbreu@camara.gov.br
Dep.OnyxLorenzoni@camara.gov.br
Dep.RonaldoCaiado@camara.gov.br
Dep.DarcisioPerondi@camara.gov.br
Dep.MarceloCastro@camara.gov.br
Dep.MoacirMicheletto@camara.gov.br
Dep.AntonioCarlosMendesThame@camara.gov.br
Dep.HamiltonCasara@camara.gov.br
Dep.NilsonPinto@camara.gov.br
Dep.YedaCrusius@camara.gov.br
Dep.DilceuSperafico@camara.gov.br
Dep.LeonardoVilela@camara.gov.br
Dep.LuisCarlosHeinze@camara.gov.br
Dep.DrFranciscoGonçalves@camara.gov.br
Dep.IrisSimoes@camara.gov.br
Dep.ChicodaPrincesa@camara.gov.br
Dep.PauloGouvea@camara.gov.br
Dep.BetoAlbuquerque@camara.gov.br
Dep.NelsonProenca@camara.gov.br
Dep.DrHelio@camara.gov.br
Dep.AldoRebelo@camara.gov.br
Dep.VanessaGrazziotin@camara.gov.br
The Consumers’
Association appeals to you to
Act now!
|
|
