The institutionally corrupt (no accounts for 13 years) EU Commission has given permission for the import of GM soya products by the same firm that is being investigated for killing off most of Europe's bees, with another of its modified products, the pesticide Clothianidin.
The European Commission has approved the import of a strain of
genetically modified soybean, a move announced on Monday (8 September)
by the European Commission.
The bean, which bears the moniker A25704-12 and was developed by
German biotechnology firm Bayer Cropscience, is now authorised to be
brought to Europe to be used in food or animal feed for the next 10
years.
This totally stinks of corruption. Who is paying who for this corruption?
German prosecutors are investigating Werner Wenning, Bayer's chairman,
and Friedrich Berschauer, the head of Bayer CropScience, after critics
alleged that they knowingly polluted the environment.
The
investigation was triggered by an Aug. 13 complaint filed by German
beekeepers and consumer protection advocates, a Coalition against Bayer
Dangers spokesman, Philipp Mimkes, said Monday.
The complaint is
part of efforts by groups on both sides of the Atlantic to determine
how much Bayer CropScience knows about the part that clothianidin may
have played in the death of millions of honeybees.
Clothianidin, sold under the
brand name Poncho, is used to coat corn, sugar beet and sorghum seeds
and protect them from pests. A nerve toxin that has the potential to be
toxic for bees, it gets into all parts of the plant that grows from the
coated seeds.
With record harvests across the EU there is no reason, no reason whatsoever for the introduction of GM modified crops of any kind.
This is about money, this is about market control by destroying naturally growing crops and replacing them with GM crops which have inbuilt suicide tendencies, making growers totally dependent on the GM seed companies by having to replace seed every year rather than planting from their own seed stores.
In August 2007, EFSA said that Bayer's A25704-12 soybean was safe
for import, awarding the product a “positive safety assessment.”
The authority has long been accused of being biased in favour of the
biotech industry, both by environmental groups and by certain EU member
states, who say the body gives its OK to any GMOs without the required
research.
Anti-GMO campaigners complain that EFSA bases its investigations on
data provided by the GM industry itself. It has always declared any GM
crops it has studied to be safe.
The crop is to be planted widely across the United States next year.
Without such authorisation, farmers in the 27-country bloc would not
have been able to purchase these particular soybeans due to contamination worries. No shit Sherlock !!
This totally stinks of corruption. Who is paying who for this corruption?
