Genetically Engineered Crops are "False Miracles"
World Health Day: Genetically Engineered
Crops are “False Miracles”, Warn Global
Experts With “Food Safety” being the theme
for this year's World Health Day, 37 Laureates of the Right
Livelihood Award from across the world have endorsed a
declaration on the future of nutrition, denouncing Golden
Rice and GM Bananas as “false miracles”. On 8
March 2015, Vandana Shiva, 1993 Right Livelihood Award
Laureate, and her organisation Navdanya, along with a
coalition of women’s groups in India, began to call for
signatures to a declaration on the future of nutrition. As
many as 37 Right Livelihood Award Laureates have since
endorsed this declaration adding support for the global
movement against Golden Rice and GM Bananas. The declaration
states that Golden Rice has not in fact proven to be more
nutritious than indigenous varieties and that natural food
sources like turmeric provide much more iron than GM
bananas. For the
complete text of the declaration, please
see For a list with Right Livelihood Award
Recipients’ signatures to the declaration, among
them also many men who support the women’s initiative, see
here:
“As a source of nutrition for the Global
South, Golden Rice has no real benefits. But considering the
precedents set by soya, corn, canola and cotton, introducing
Golden Rice as a way for large companies to gain control
over entire food cultures based on rice, makes perfect
sense,” states the declaration. It also reveals the
environmental costs, potentially damaging health impacts and
consequences for small-scale farmers of GM crop production,
and calls for support for sustainable agro-ecology systems
with crop diversity and seed sovereignty.
http://seedfreedom.info/campaign/declaration-for-international-womens-day-8-march-2015/
A
summary is provided below this release.
www.rightlivelihood.org/biodiversity_gmo.html
, Warn Global Experts
With “Food Safety” being the theme for this year's World Health Day, 37 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award from across the world have endorsed a declaration on the future of nutrition, denouncing Golden Rice and GM Bananas as “false miracles”.
On 8 March 2015, Vandana Shiva, 1993 Right Livelihood Award Laureate, and her organisation Navdanya, along with a coalition of women’s groups in India, began to call for signatures to a declaration on the future of nutrition. As many as 37 Right Livelihood Award Laureates have since endorsed this declaration adding support for the global movement against Golden Rice and GM Bananas. The declaration states that Golden Rice has not in fact proven to be more nutritious than indigenous varieties and that natural food sources like turmeric provide much more iron than GM bananas.
“As a source of
nutrition for the Global South, Golden Rice has no real
benefits. But considering the precedents set by soya, corn,
canola and cotton, introducing Golden Rice as a way for
large companies to gain control over entire food cultures
based on rice, makes perfect sense,” states the
declaration. It also reveals the environmental costs,
potentially damaging health impacts and consequences for
small-scale farmers of GM crop production, and calls for
support for sustainable agro-ecology systems with crop
diversity and seed sovereignty.
For the
complete text of the declaration, please
see
http://seedfreedom.info/campaign/declaration-for-international-womens-day-8-march-2015/
A
summary is provided below this release.
For a list with Right Livelihood Award
Recipients’ signatures to the declaration, among
them also many men who support the women’s initiative, see
here:
www.rightlivelihood.org/biodiversity_gmo.html