France Says No to
Genetically Modified Crops, No to Fracking
ฝรั่งเศสบอกว่า “ไม่” ต่อพืชที่ตัดแต่งทางพันธุกรรม,
“ไม่” ต่อแฟรคกิ้ง (การขุดเจาะหาน้ำมัน/ก๊าซใต้ชั้นหิน)
- Common Dreams staff
- คณะคอมมอนดรีมส์
France will maintain its ban on genetically modified crops
[GMOs] and will ban fracking, politicians announced during an environmental
conference held in Paris Friday and Saturday.
ฝรั่งเศสจะยังคงห้ามพืชจีเอ็มโอ และจะห้ามแฟรคกิ้ง,
นักการเมืองประกาศในระหว่างการประชุมสิ่งแวดล้อมที่จัดขึ้นในปารีส วันศุกร์และเสาร์.
"The government is keeping its moratorium on the
cultivation of GMO seeds currently authorized in the European Union,"
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told the conference in Paris on Saturday.
“รัฐบาลได้สั่งระงับการเพาะพันธุ์เมล็ดจีเอ็มโอ
ที่ได้ผ่านการอนุมัติของ อียู ขณะนี้”, นายกฯ Jean-Marc
Ayrault ได้กล่าวในที่ประชุม.
Reuters reports that the ban specifically targets Monsanto's
MON810 maize, as it is the only GMO currently allowed in Europe.
รอยเตอร์รายงานว่า คำสั่งห้ามนี้เล็งเจาะจงไปที่ ข้าวโพด MON810 ของมอนซานโต, เพราะมันเป็น จีเอ็มโอ ตัวเดียวที่ได้รับอนุญาตให้เข้ายุโรปได้ขณะนี้.
The ban was originally enacted in 2008, was overturned by a
French court in 2011, and was reinstated in March.
คำสั่งห้ามนี้ เริ่มออกในปี 2008, ได้ถูกศาลฝรั่งเศสพลิกคว่ำในปี 2011, และตอนนี้ก็ถูกนำกลับมาใช้ในเดือน มีนาคม.
At the opening of the conference, President François
Hollande declared the banning of shale gas drilling, or fracking.
ในระหว่างการเปิดประชุม, ประธานาธิบดี ฟรางซัว ฮอลแลนเด
ได้ประกาศห้ามการขุดเจาะก๊าซในชั้นหินใต้ดิน, หรือ แฟรคกิ้ง.
Hollande stated that "no one" could be sure that
fracking was free from "serious risks to health and the environment"
and said that seven requests for fracking permits that had previously been
submitted to the state are rejected.
ฮอลแลนเด กล่าวว่า “ไม่มีใคร” มั่นใจได้ว่า แฟรคกิ้งจะปลอดภัยจาก “ความเสี่ยงร้ายแรงต่อสุขภาพและสิ่งแวดล้อม”
และกล่าวว่า เจ็ดคำร้องขอใบอนุญาตแฟรคกิ้ง ที่ได้ยื่นต่อรัฐก่อนหน้านั้น
ได้ถูกปฏิเสธแล้ว.
Published on Sunday, September 16, 2012 by Common Dreams
rollandmiller
IF they can ban GMO' in France we can do the same in North
America
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webwalk • 7 hours ago • parent
Please support, with time or money, the initiative in
California (on the ballot now to be voted by the people of California in
November): http://www.cornucopia.org/2012...
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Duncan Bray • 6 hours ago • parent
this corncopia link is extremely valuable as it lists the
scum BY NAME who are trying to ram this down our throats. I am reposting it on
my FB, and I urge other Canadians to do
the same... of course we can't vote in California... but we can choose to NOT
buy the products of the companies listed
7 /
RuthKob • 6 hours ago • parent
Unfortunately, Monsanto is spending about 4 million to kill
it. Dow has come in with over a million. Big cereal companies have added to
that. If you have seen some of the TV ads, they're sickening. I'm afraid that
prop 37 will go down. Moreover, our ever-vigilant regulatory agencies now have
a policy of "coexistance". The way GMO pollen spreads, this is
impossible. Prepare for the worst.
2 /
Matthew Heins • 5 hours ago • parent
I think, however, that we need to carefully avoid linking
Prop.37 with bans on GMOs.
Prop. 37 is about proper labelling, not banning.
Connecting it to bans is what Monsanto wants.
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webwalk • 11 hours ago
Two small positive steps, and yet the grand momentum toward
civilization's destruction of the ecology accelerates.
Where is the turning point, a fulcrum and lever where we can
collectively apply our desire and our will, and effectively reject and put an
end to the systematic destruction of the living Earth?
We need a mass outbreak of awareness, wisdom, courage,
humility...
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Donny Lutz • 10 hours ago • parent
Webwalk, Beck and Limbaugh will be jumping all over
this...those unclean, cowardly French are clearly going against American
"interests".
Will we soon see them on our hit list?
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webwalk • 9 hours ago • parent
i assume the EU and the WTO will bring their institutional
hammers down on these impertinent "restraints of trade" by France,
which blatantly disrespect the rights of extractive corporations to maximize
profits.
The Earth has no rights, peoples and communities have no
rights, even nation states have no rights. Only corporations have fundamental
rights: all other rights are subsidiary to the rights of extractive
corporations to maximize profits.
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Matthew Heins • 4 hours ago • parent
This ban harms the rights of French and, indirectly,
European and African farmers. Which is why the farmers are against it.
Some of these environmental questions just don't fit into
the "us versus the Man" scenario. ;)
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webwalk • 4 hours ago • parent
@Matthew Heins: Bullshit. See my response below. And
"the farmers" are not against it, some certainly are, many are not.
Excellent use of up-to-date talking points by the way!
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thenemo1 • 5 hours ago • parent
To Webwalk, Beck and Limbaugh cater to the imbeciles of
society fanatic people that think they know how to tell the world how to live.
Over population O.K. you're blessed; genetically modified
corn etc O.K.
All the same they been brainwashed from children.
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maryhandymoore • 5 hours ago • parent
@webwalk, Yes that truly is a mass need. A greater need
though is an individual thing that spreads to each community: downsize. As long
as there is a craving for bigger and better, there will be an avenue of supply
for it. If we want to save our planet in partnership with the one who created
it, we need to change our ways of life. I do not mean poor people (like me), I
mean those who have the price of a hum vee or a pleasure boat or plane or two.
If we do not, we will lose our environment, our forests and parks - big
suppliers of oxygen to us. We need to get very serious about protecting our
planet, then, those who make money off all our wants will have to here us.
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gardenernorcal • 10 hours ago
Those seem like very rational decisions to me.
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Solid State Max • 6 hours ago
At least France is trying to get it right while this country
never stops going all out Orwellian on "clean coal" and trying to
brag about domestic oil production as if it were a "progressive"
value.
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maryhandymoore • 5 hours ago
Oh, how wonderful that some country is standing up for what
is good for its members. No MONO810 food poisoning for its citizens who should
thank their leaders; no most environmentally debilitating gas fracking. The
more those who know it is not true say that fracking is safe and clean, the
more suspect they look to those who know they are deceiving people. They are
out there.
1 /
N8W1der • 6 hours ago
Now if only the French would ditch their Faustian bargain
with nuclear power.
2 /
Matthew Heins • 5 hours ago • parent
From the Reuters link: "Opening the debates on Friday,
Hollande set out an ambitious agenda, calling for deeper cuts in EU carbon
dioxide emissions, and reiterating his pledge to cut the share of nuclear power
in France's energy mix to 50 percent by 2025 from 75 percent at present."
Anti-nuke folks should support Hollande.
3 /
Norm Smith • 2 hours ago
I WONDER IF MONSANTO APPROVES OF THIS DECISION >
0 /
Psychedelic Chicken • 5 hours ago
Obama has likely tasked as "urgent" endeavors to
turn that situation around in France.
0 /
Shizel • 5 hours ago
French food and wine industries are protected cultural gems.
Too bad about the 80% of electricity provided by nuclear power.
http://www.radio4all.net/index...
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Matthew Heins • 5 hours ago • parent
How are GMOs and environmental issues a left or right thing?
It made some sense as part of the Counterculture Movement,
but that is over and done with.
I mean, the Nazis
would be in broad agreement with most of today's environmental laws and causes,
and the C.C.C.P. wrought a lot of environmental destruction!
If "left" and "right" are to have any
coherence, then there should be "left environmentalists" and
"right environmentalists", right?
-the Pedantic Dept. ;)
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Matthew Heins • 5 hours ago −
From the Reuters report linked in this article: "As
Europe's largest crop-grower, France is under pressure to soften its stance on
GMO crops, PARTICULARY AFTER EXPERTS FOUND THIS YEAR THAT THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE
JUSTIFYING THE BAN.(emphasis mine)
French and European farmers have voiced fears the
restrictions could make them fall behind in the competitive world grain market,
and the EU said in May it was considering ordering the government to lift its
moratorium.
However, in a country that is fiercely protective of its
agriculture, regarding it as part of its national identity, the government
faces strong public resistance to GMO crops, as well as to the use of chemicals
in farming."
Important to keep it clear that this ban is not based in
science, or in the wishes of the most affected (the farmers), but is rather a
socio-political points scorer with urban environmentalists and French
nationalists and cultural nostalgics.
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webwalk • 4 hours ago • parent −
First: Bullshit. "Experts" say lots of things,
including:
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine cites that
"Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM
food" and mention infertility, immune problems, insulin regulation among
others from the scientific literature. The AAEM advises doctors to recommend
their patients not eat GM foods.
Science has in no way demonstrated that tinkering with
transgenic manipulation is "safe" and in fact many studies
demonstrate adverse health effects in animals. Humans are being subject to a
massive uncontrolled experiment.
Second: These seeds and foods should not be imposed, which
is how they have spread. It is NOT because of "demand" from farmers,
but is "supply-side" economics, driven by the needs and greed of the
corporate predators, whose ultimate goal is frankly control of the entire food
system.
If France, or any other sovereign government, or any local
community or people wants to choose to not plant, grow, eat, or allow GMO
crops, why should "corporations' rights" (actually corporations'
power to manipulate laws) take precedence? It should not. People have the
absolute right to know what is in their food and to choose what to eat or not,
but in our corporatocracy, we do not have the right to know, the right to
choose, we are being force-fed.
Also the environmental problems associated with these crops
are well-documented: increased use of pesticides and herbicides, development of
pesticide and herbicide resistance and development of "super-weeds,"
cross-pollination and contamination of non-GMO crops and wild plants with the
GM genes, etc.
For all these reasons, and also very importantly the
corporate control of the seed and the food supply, with the loss of the
traditional rights of farmers to save seed, through corporate
"patenting" and "licensing" of living organisms, millions
of farmers around the world (including in France) fiercely oppose GMOs, which
they have witnessed the effects in their communities and on their livelihoods.
French farmers (and others) have ripped up plots of GMO crops in acts of brave
and dedicated civil disobedience.
Get educated: http://www.theecologist.org/Ne...
As to your "urban environmentalists" and
"cultural nostalgics" meme, it is Monsanto and ADM and Cargill who
are the "elitists" here. Impoverished communities of farmers around
the world are on the front lines of this environmental movement against
corporate domination.
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