Se plantean nuevas amenazas para los consumidores europeos. La Comisión Europea está decidida a ignorar su opinión y seguir introduciendo nuevos cultivos modificados genéticamente (MG) en Europa. No es suficiente con el maíz, ahora la Comisión se dispone a imponer, sin el apoyo de los países miembros, el cultivo de una patata transgénica. Su aprobación supondría el primer cultivo transgénico autorizado en la Unión Europea (UE) desde hace diez años.
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lunes, 6 de agosto de 2007
Europe opposes the entry of GM potato
European environmental groups are critical of Amflora potatoes, saying they could release dangerous genes into the environment.
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miércoles, 25 de julio de 2007
EC to approve starch-rich GM potato
The European Commission has announced that it will approve BASF's Amflora genetically modified potato to be grown in Europe, the first authorisation for the growing of a GM crop in Europe since 1998.
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martes, 24 de julio de 2007
Perú: apoyo urgente !!! “No a la papa transgénica”
La papa es originaria de los Andes, con una altísima biodiversidad y presencia de parientes silvestres en Perú. La papa es el cultivo más importante en la región andina y está asociado no sólo con la soberanía alimentaria de los pueblos, sino con las relaciones de reciprocidad y de fortalecimiento del tejido social comunitario. Por lo que la sola experimentación con papa transgénica en un país que es centro de origen y diversidad, es poner en riesgo no sólo a la rica biodiversidad existente, sino a las poblaciones humanas que sustentan esa diversidad.
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lunes, 23 de julio de 2007
Malta loses battle to stop cultivation of GM potato
Along with 10 other EU member States, Malta lost its battle against the approval of the cultivation of GM potatoes.
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jueves, 19 de julio de 2007
Untested, Risky Genetically Modified Potato Banned
A major region of Peru has banned genetically modified (GM) varieties of a crop that has been grown organically for thousands of years and which helped to fuel the ancient Inca empire.
The Cusco regional government's Order 010 is intended to protect the genetic diversity of thousands of native potato varieties. It forbids the sale, cultivation, use and transport of GM potatoes as well as other native food crops.
The potato originated in the highlands of South America. Peru and its Andean neighbours are the crop's centre of diversity - with more than 4,000 distinct varieties that farmers have developed over generations.
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The Cusco regional government's Order 010 is intended to protect the genetic diversity of thousands of native potato varieties. It forbids the sale, cultivation, use and transport of GM potatoes as well as other native food crops.
The potato originated in the highlands of South America. Peru and its Andean neighbours are the crop's centre of diversity - with more than 4,000 distinct varieties that farmers have developed over generations.
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lunes, 16 de julio de 2007
Ministers wary of hot GM potato
The European Union is expected to sidestep hostile public opinion by approving the cultivation of a genetically modified crop via the "back door" of a bureaucratic Brussels procedure.
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