(en) Anarkismo.net: We will continue to ensure that the rules
in force, as in Italy and in Friuli prohibit transgenic crops, to be
enforced! by FVG - Friuli Venezia Giuli (it) [machine translation]
The issue of GMOs in agriculture, in our region, shamefully, recurs regularly for several
years. ---- To be found and destroyed all crops GMO present in our territories and farms
involved should be punished and placed under precautionary seizure. ---- We will continue
to ensure that the rules in force, as in Italy and in Friuli prohibit transgenic crops, to
be enforced! ---- These days we followed with suffering a succession of news about the
usual question of GMOs in agriculture that, in our region, shamefully, recurs regularly
for several years. ---- Shamefully because we believe it is now time to lasciarcela behind
once and for all and start a serious run to return a sense to an agricultural system that
has lost all connection with the core values of agriculture, which are those of nurturing
healthily and adequate living beings (humans, animals and plants) in balance with the
resources and diversity and environmental protection and preservation of the same,
starting from the local to the global reach.
Industrialization increasingly pushing the agricultural sector, characterized by the
production monoculture and started with the so-called "green revolution", has proved a
complete failure in every respect: nutritional, environmental, economic and social.
Fame (in poor countries) and malnutrition (in rich countries), groundwater pollution from
pesticides and nitrates, greenhouse effect and climate change (18% of total farm only),
desertification and soil depletion, loss of biodiversity, culture, cultural and
environmental (deforestation, land re-orders, etc.), neolatifondismo, abandonment of
farming, urbanization and urban sprawl, loss of bargaining power of farmers in favor of
financial market speculation on food, ... and we could go on and on in ' list the negative
effects of the agri-food model.
We have already stated several times, transgenic crops are not innovative but represent
the evolution of a system more boost agricultural and food wrong and failed with GMOs that
brings with it a serious risk of irreversible consequences on the environment, health,
economy and society.
And let us not be fooled by the false propaganda "scientistic" paladins of transgenic!
In the United States, among the largest producers of GMOs, are coming to light many issues
related to these crops:
The phenomena of resistance of pests and parasites to the active ingredients of the plants
are more and more uncontrollable GMO, to the point that were produced and authorized new
transgenic varieties tolerant to the use of several pesticides, such as the infamous
"Agent Orange" used in Vietnam .
The rivers and aquifers are contaminated by pesticide residues present in transgenic
crops, for this reason, in the US, the maximum values of contaminants allowed in drinking
water are much higher than those in Europe (up to 7000 times for some of them)
Traces of pesticides and herbicides used in transgenic crops are detected in the urine and
blood of the rural and urban populations.
In 20 years, 90% of Monarch butterflies have disappeared, victims of industrial crops GMOs
and their pesticides. To protect them is underway for the inclusion of these insects to
the list of species in danger of extinction.
Finally, with regard to the recent legislative changes, we believe that, while introducing
the freedom to ban GMOs for member states to the European level and demonstrating a
certain degree of opposition to their use in agriculture with the new decree and the
national ' current regional law, they nevertheless are the big gaps for which the
multinational biotech, directly, through international trade agreements (see TTIP) or
indirectly, through their "hit men" local, will always try to get around to avoid limits
on their profits. This requires that the institutions respond firmly!
Even before being a tangle of laws, agricultural and food choices of the peoples are an
inalienable right that must be developed in balance with environmental and cultural
resources. The land and food are common goods and not the goods!
So to be found and destroyed all crops GMO present in our territories and farms involved
should be punished and placed under precautionary seizure.
We will continue to ensure that the rules in force, as in Italy and in Friuli prohibit
transgenic crops, to be enforced!
Coordination for the protection of biodiversity FVG
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