Bt Brinjal: Monsanto will face bio-piracy case
Bangalore - When the Environment Support Group (ESG), the not for-profit trust involved in environmental and social justice initiatives, launched in 2006 its campaign against Bt Brinjal, the first-ever genetically modified food in the country, its concerns were pressing.
Not least among them was the unprecedented risk to public health posed by releasing ‘lab-cultured’ food that was “developed in transparently” and after being “poorly tested”.
Six years on, the fight has reached Round II. Last week, the battle against bio piracy and genetically modified aubergines received a fillip when the High Court of Karnataka dismissed, on October 11, petitions challenging criminal complaints against the developers of Bt Brinjal.
The verdict paves the way for the first-ever case of bio-piracy in the country, when the provisions of the Biodiversity Act dealing with bio piracy come into play. The HC decision to let the law run its course in the lower court is the culmination of claims that endemic varieties of brinjal were accessed by UAS and Ms Monsanto/ Mahyco.
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What is it about the USA that we cannot control this cancerous growth called Monsanto ...????
