-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- FoodFirst is a great source of information on something that affects all people. Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: Anuradha Mittal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Alert on Biotech Industry using "Organic" as Trojan Horse 21.01.2000 Dear friends, The biotech as organic stunt is being replayed in India after its defeat in the USA. On February 8th 2000, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is holding a meeting on "the Role of Business Partnership in Promoting Trade and Sustainable Development" to promote biotechnology as Organic.Please send letters the UNDP chief in the US and the resident representative of UNDP in India to scrap this meeting and hold a meeting on sustainable agriculture and organic farming in association with full participation of the Agriculture Ministry and of the organic agriculture movements in India. I enclose an Alert which you can circulate among your friends. The address of UNDP Resident representative in India is Dr. Brenda Gael Mcsweeney, United Nations Development Programme, 55 - Lodi Estate, Post Box No. 3059, New Dlhi - 110003 -India Tel: 0091-11-4628877, Fax: 91-11-4627612 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.undp.org.in UNDP Chief in USA Mark Mallock Brown Chief of Administration, UNDP 1, UN Plaza, New York, USA Tel: 001 - 212 - 8262058, 9065001 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Let Organic - Stay Organic Alert: The Biotech Industry uses "Organic" as Trojan Horse to enter Indian Market On February 8th 2000, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is holding a meeting on "the Role of Business Partnership in Promoting Trade and Sustainable Development" to promote biotechnology as Organic. This attempt to sell Genetically Engineered (G. E.) as organic had earlier been used in USA, but failed due to the protests by thousands of organic farmers and consumers. The fact that organic is being used as a Trojan Horse to launch G. E. products in India is evident from the total absence of the organic farming movement in the UNDP programme. In fact even the Agriculture Ministry is missing from the programme. Instead, it is officials of the Commerce Ministry who will be dealing with organic farming. Representatives of Mahyco, the Indian seed company bought up by the US Biotech company Monsanto, through whom Monsanto plans to launch its G.E. products in India, will be playing a leading role in the public private partnership. While last year Monsanto was visible and aggresive imarekting G.E. crops in India, it now operates in biotech debates using MAHYCO using as a shield. Indian farmers organisation had uprooted Monsanto's G.E. field trials in December 1998. The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, New Delhi, has also filed a case in the Indian Supreme Court to stop the field trials since they violate Biosafety regulations at every level. Since the global biotechnology industry is facing popular resistance in India, an attempt is being made to launch biotechnology via the public sector and as an organic option. We are concerned that instead of promoting genuine organic agriculture and biosafety, the UNDP is helping the biotech industry by confusing G.E. as organic and use the public sector to launch G.E. products. This is an attempt to hijack the organic label for the biotech industry. While using organic as a Trojan Horse, the unleashing of G.E. products in India will undermine organic agriculture by creating genetic pollution. This is yet another attempt by the biotech industry interests to undo the Biosafety Protocol negotiations currently underway in Montreal, and to reduce all biotech discussion to trade by taking them to WTO. This attempt to take Biotech to WTO was made at Seattle but failed because of protests by citizens, Third World countries and European Environment Ministers. We want organic to stay organic and be kept totally separate from G.E. We want the public sector to play a public role in working with farmers to evolve farmers' varieties of the desired crops that India grows and needs so that our biodiversity, sustainable agriculture and diverse food systems can be kept alive. Join the fight against hunger. 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