Alliance GE-free Wendland
press release
26/11/2008
GM opponents regroup
for a new start in the debate over the planting of GM maize in the district met in Platenlaase more than twenty activists from the Alliance GM-free Wendland. The critics of genetic engineering plan new protest steps: In December, before supermarkets started to inform the public about the possibility of a boycott of products containing genetically modified ingredients. At the same time, the Alliance, the location register of the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) will monitor closely. There would be three months before a planned sowing published in 2009 whether land in the district are to be planted with GM maize.
"We hope that the farmers have seen in Wendland that genetically modified seeds does not bring the solution to their economic problems, and there is also no registration in the site register so come," said Katja Temple, spokeswoman for the Alliance. If, contrary to expectations Individual plans are to focus on genetic engineering, the Alliance announced already at protests. "In the debate about the ultimately prevented GM maize cultivation in Laase has shown that many people are willing, the genetic engineering industry and its agents on the spot to oppose active resistance, "said Temple.
For questions Katja Temple 0160-44 00 206
press release
26/11/2008
GM opponents regroup
for a new start in the debate over the planting of GM maize in the district met in Platenlaase more than twenty activists from the Alliance GM-free Wendland. The critics of genetic engineering plan new protest steps: In December, before supermarkets started to inform the public about the possibility of a boycott of products containing genetically modified ingredients. At the same time, the Alliance, the location register of the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) will monitor closely. There would be three months before a planned sowing published in 2009 whether land in the district are to be planted with GM maize.
"We hope that the farmers have seen in Wendland that genetically modified seeds does not bring the solution to their economic problems, and there is also no registration in the site register so come," said Katja Temple, spokeswoman for the Alliance. If, contrary to expectations Individual plans are to focus on genetic engineering, the Alliance announced already at protests. "In the debate about the ultimately prevented GM maize cultivation in Laase has shown that many people are willing, the genetic engineering industry and its agents on the spot to oppose active resistance, "said Temple.
For questions Katja Temple 0160-44 00 206
"No GM in Wendland" would inform the reader what the state of things. E-mail: Keine-Gentechnik-im-Wendland@gmx.de 
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