France Stands Up to Monsanto, Bans Seed Giant’s GMO Corn

[Judi Lynn]

France Stands Up to Monsanto, Bans Seed Giant’s GMO Corn
By John Deike
Global Research, March 18, 2014

Genetically engineered corn is facing fierce resistant from both French environmentalists and country officials.

On Saturday, France’s agriculture ministry temporarily banned the sale, use and cultivation of Monsanto’s MON 810 genetically engineered (GE) corn—the only variety that had been authorized in the European Union (EU).

The French government, which argues GE crops present environmental risks, kept pushing to institute the new ban even after the country’s highest court struck down similar measures in the past, according to Reuters.

“France’s reinstatement of its previous ban of Monsanto’s controversial genetically engineered crop … is another encouraging sign that the biotech industry’s iron grip on foreign government’s is slipping and that resistance to these flawed products is continuing to take hold,” said Dave Murphy, founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now!.

The decision was strategically timed to block the seasonal planting of Monsanto’s corn by French farmers before a draft law is debated on April 10, which is aimed at banning the cultivation of foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

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[eppur_se_muova]

1. If you want to fuck with people's food, France is not the place to do it.

Vive la France !

[djean111]

2. Hope the renegotiated trade treaty with the EU does not make indiviual country

sovereignty moot. According to the TPP and other treaties, France would be keeping Monsanto from making a profit, and of course profit is king.