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Appeal for a GMO-free Friuli Venezia Giulia in a GMO-free Europe: sign the petition!

07.11.13






Petition launched by the Coalition for a GMO-free Friuli Venezia Giulia



GMOs in Friuli Venezia Giulia? NO THANKS!
In Friuli Venezia Giulia, a group of farmers has been making a forced attempt to introduce GMO crops for three years. This is without the slightest respect for the rights of citizens and for the agricultural production of others. This is unacceptable for a number of reasons.
First of all, GMOs require a highly intensive crop even in terms of specific fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, as and more than non-GMO industrial agriculture, also introducing a vicious circle of commercial dependence on the multinational corporations that hold the patents.
They also permanently prevent any hypothesis of an agricultural alternative and jeopardize existing alternatives such as organic and typical productions.
What is essential today, however, is to start from the consideration that land, food, seeds and biodiversity are common goods rather than commodities, necessary for survival, for the health of humans and the ecosystem, and for the reproduction of life. While the profits of a few and market speculations cannot be the cardinal principles that determine the nature and purpose

of agriculture.

Finally, it is necessary to put into practice the “Precautionary Principle” introduced by the UN Declaration of Rio, provided for by the European Community Treaty and by Italian legislation, for which it is up to those who propose GMOs to demonstrate with certainty their non-harmfulness to health and the ecosystem, something that has never happened.
What is happening in the territory of Friuli Venezia Giulia therefore damages the fundamental right to self-determination and food sovereignty.
Letting it happen is an intolerable affront to the vast majority who, in this territory as in Europe, reject GMOs.
So let's ask
- to the Region of:
• place under precautionary seizure the areas where the Mon810 corn seeds were cultivated in Friuli as well as the food they collected and make public the results of the monitoring carried out on neighboring fields to verify any cases of contamination;
• give substance to the stated determination to achieve a GMO-free Region, starting from the orientation of the next RDP (Rural Development Plan) where only GMO-free supply chains must be supported, which can constitute a driving force to relaunch arable crops and their economy;
• to support the selection and improvement of local seeds by farmers.
- to the Government and Parliament of:
• to urgently activate (to be ready by the expiry of the 18-month ban on the planting of Mon810 defined by the inter-ministerial decree) and in agreement with the associations that have always been active on the anti-GMO front, a work that will lead to the approval of regulatory instruments that provide for the definitive ban on the cultivation of GMOs throughout the national territory, fully applying, as done in other European countries, the precautionary principle and the safeguard clause;
• launch an agricultural innovation policy oriented to the conservation of the environment, biodiversity and social and cultural diversity and the authentic quality of the products obtained;
• to promote, towards the Parliament and the European Commission, concrete actions that lead to a definitive ban on GMOs throughout Europe, also bringing these issues into the debate of the next European elections;
- to local authorities (municipalities):
• to support these requests in the Region, relaunching the campaign for GMO-free municipalities, thereby amplifying and giving space to the will of their citizens.
Finally, we ask all citizens to continue to ask for a GMO-free Region and to bring this request to their local and regional administrators.


To sign the online petition.






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