X-GPMessage_ID: <1033731114:uok:MLM:51670> From: messages en dynamic.greenpeace.org To: fgimeno en posta.unizar.es Subject: Greenpeace: Act Now to Prevent GE Seed Contamination Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 13:31:54 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: TAMIZ + Sophos en unizar.es
Greenpeace Campaign Alert for Cyberactivists in Spain
Soon a small technical committee of the European Union (The Standing Committee on Seeds) will be asked to approve a dirty little standard allowing extensive contamination of European farmland with genetically engineered (GE) plants. The proposed directive on GE seed contamination permits "thresholds" of GE contamination in bags of ordinary seeds :
In a bag of beet, cotton or maize seed, one in every 200 seeds could be genetically engineered without informing the farmer. (0.5%)
In a bag of rapeseed, about one in 330 seeds could be secretly contaminated. (0.3%)
In a bag of soy seeds, more than one in every 150 could be contaminated. (0.7%)
You can help by writing to the Spanish agriculture minister from here:
http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/es?a=seeds&s=blue2
You can also warn your friends and colleagues about this new threat by sending them this e-card, designed by a Greenpeace cyberactivist and the winning entry of our "Seeds of Trouble" competition:
http://act.greenpeace.org/ecs/s2?i=416&sk=std
You can send up to six e-cards at once, and we encourage you to spread the word far and wide.
Please act soon as we expect that the crucial committee meeting will take place within two weeks.
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