THE PERIL OF G.M. FOODS!
Recently it came into light that
some farmers of Patia region of
Fatebad district of Haryana have
been cultivating G.M.Brinjal and
that they are unaware that they are
cultivating G.M.Brinjal cultivation.
They have bought the G.M.brinjal
saplings from the local seed-
sapling dealers.
In our country G.M. food
cultivation is banned up to Feb
2020 and that there is no
permission for cultivation of
G.M.foods or selling seeds/
saplings in the market. But the G.M.
saplings have been unauthorizedly
and illegally entered in to our
country and sold to innocent
farmers and G.M.Brinjals are
introduced and sold in the markets.
It is the Mahyco the subsidiary
of gaint monopoly trans-national
corporation Monsanto that is the
producer of these G.M.brinjals. As
it has no permission to sell them in
India it will be illegal and criminal
to introduce and sell G.M.food in
India. But it appears that since
Mahyco got permission to sell and
cultivate B.T.brinjal in Bangladesh,
it made the B.T.brinjal saplings
from Bangladesh to be introduced
in Haryana markets to innocent
farmers and thus started the
cultivation in India even before a
permission is granted to it.
It is also apparent that with
such illegal introduction of
B.T.brinjal cultivation in to India the
Monsanto through its subsidiary, is
unethically preparing a ground for
B.T.cultivation in India, and to
pressurize India to grant per-
mission for B.T.brinjal cultivation.
In this connection it would not
be wrong to say that Mahyco
cannot by itself unauthourizedly
and illegally introduce B.T.brinjal
saplings through sapling vendors
June,July - 2019
in to India without the active
cooperation of concerned govern-
mental regulatory authorities and
their wilful connivance.
The G.E.A.C, the regulatory
committee to arrest illegal B.T.food
cultivation and sales in India is
conveniently keeping a friend eye
to this illegal introduction of
G.M.brinjal/food cultivation and
thus abandons from its basic duty
of protecting the Indian people-the
consumers from health problems
attendant to G.M.foods.
Though developed countries
in Europe and countries like Japan
have banned cultivation/sales of
G.M.foods in their countries since
they are harmful to the people’s
health, our Indian rulers and
governmental
regulatory
authorities of our country are
lenient in this issue and are more
prome on granting permission to
B.T.food crops and food commerce
in India.
It has not been clearly proved
that B.T.foods are not harmful to
the health of the people. Many
prominent and honest scientists
have been warning the B.T.foods
are harmful to the health of
consumers and that the harmful
and perilous effects of G.M.food will
not appear immediately, but they
are evident only in the long run.
But instead of taking severe
action against those who illegally
introduced B.T.brinjal saplings in to
India and sold to the innocent
farmers in India, the government
blames the innocent farmers as
have cultivated illegal B.T.brinjal
cultivation and by destroying their
crops announces that the peril of
B.T.brinjal cultivation is eradicated.
Thus it was the innocent farmers
that were made criminals and
victims for the failures of rulers and
made them to incur loss.
On the other hand the pro
G.M.lobby, with the support of the
G.M.food seeds producing and
selling Mansanto Company are
launching spurious protests of so-
called farmer associations and
announcing further protests
against governments ban in
B.T.food cultivation on the spurious
plea that the farmers who are in
distress in our country are denied
to reap the benifits of genitically
modified crops.
However genitically modified
food substances have already
entered in to our food chain illegally
and unauthorizedly.
W ith the introduction of
B.T.cotton
cultivation,
the
B.T.cotton seed oil is extracted
from this plant and is being made
consumed in many parts of India
especially in Gujarat and
Maharashtra. Not only this, Canola
oil and soyabean oil are both
extracted from imported seeds
which are produced in India from
genetically modified crops.
The
government
and
regulatory authorities are keeping
a blind eye about this illegal
introduction of B.T. substances in
to our food chain, knowingly.
Such has been the peril of
G.M.foods introduction in India and
this peril is not of their illegal
introduction, but even if they are
legally permitted this peril will not
cease.
But
our
rulers
and
governments who are not
interested of our people but are
serving the imperialists because of
their very class-nature, they are
interested to facilitate the
introduction of G.M.foods by hook
or crook. That is the real peril to
be fought out!
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