14.04.2004 |

Major European NGOs send letter to Wallstroem on GMOs in Seeds

In a joint letter to the EUs Environmental Commissioner Margot Wallström the European Environmental Bureau, Coordination Paysanne Europeen, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the organic umbrella organisation IFOAM demand clean seeds for non-GE farming. Thresholds for "some GMOs" in conventional and organic seeds would jeopardise the environment and ge free agriculture, the organisations claim.</p><p><a href="http://www.saveourseeds.org/downloads/EU_NGOS_letter_to_wallstroem_13_04_04.pdf">Joint letter to Margot Wallström and the EU Commission</a>