Bt brinjal Vs. HT mustard: It only gets worse!!
Published By kavitha On Thursday, September 8th 2016. Under Uncategorized Tags: Bt brinjal, GEAC, GM crops India, GM Mustard
You can download a pdf version of this note here.
GEAC IS GETTING WORSE IN ITS REGULATORY FUNCTIONING OVER THE YEARS:
GM MUSTARD’S FARCICAL PUBLIC FEEDBACK PROCESSES, CONTRASTED WITH THE REGULATOR-ADOPTED PROCESSES FOR BT BRINJAL
(This is a quick note prepared by Kavitha Kuruganti to show the contrast between Brinjal & Mustard, tests ... Continue Reading
Urgent MoEFCC intervention demanded to stop illegal entry of Bt brinjal from Bangladesh
Published By kavitha On Tuesday, December 2nd 2014. Under Uncategorized Tags: Bt brinjal, Cartagena Biosafety Protocol, Prakash Javadekar
To: December 2nd 2014
Shri Prakash Javadekar,
Hon’ble Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change,
Government of India.
Dear Sir,
Sub: Immediate intervention sought from your Ministry on illegal transboundary entry of Bt brinjal into India from Bangladesh – reg.
Namaste! This is to bring to your kind attention fresh concerns with GMOs and threat to ... Continue Reading
“Food security through GM crops fallacious”: Scientists
Published By kavitha On Saturday, February 9th 2013. Under Uncategorized Tags: Bt brinjal, Bt brinjal moratorium, National Safe Food Day, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, SC TEC, Task Force on Agri Biotechnology
National Safe Food Day being celebrated throughout the country, on 3rd anniversary of Bt brinjal moratorium
(Please read this press release of the Coalition along with this letter : http://indiagminfo.org/?p=540)
New Delhi, February 9th 2013: On the 3rd anniversary of a moratorium on Bt brinjal in India, in a letter to the ... Continue Reading
Open Letter from Indian Scientists to the Hon’ble Supreme Court
Published By kavitha On Thursday, November 8th 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Bt brinjal, Bt crops, Centre of Diversity, GM field trials, Herbicide Tolerant crops, Task Force on Agricultural Biotechnology, TEC interim report
In the case of Aruna Rodrigues Vs. Union of India ( Writ Petition (Civil) No. 260 of 2005)
November 8, 2012
To:
Hon'ble Justices Swatanter Kumar & S.J Mukhopadhyay
Supreme court of India
In the case of Aruna Rodrigues Vs. Union of India
(Writ Petition (Civil) No. 260 of 2005)
Respected Sirs,
Sub: Request to accept the interim ... Continue Reading
All field trials to be stopped, unless conditions met: SC Technical Expert Committee submits interim report
Published By kavitha On Thursday, October 18th 2012. Under Field Trials, Uncategorized Tags: Biosafety, Bt brinjal, Bt cotton, GM field trials, Moratorium on Bt food crops, SC technical expert committee in GMOs PIL
"10-year Moratorium on field trials of Bt food crops, Moratorium on field trials of Herbicide Tolerant crops (till independent assessment of impact and suitability) and Ban on field trials of GM crops for which India is Centre of Origin/Diversity"
In an Interim Report signed off on 7th October 2012 (D.No.1944/2005/SC/PIL in ... Continue Reading
COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA WELCOMES THE PARLIAMENTARY STANDING COMMITTEE’S REPORT ON GM CROPS
Published By kavitha On Thursday, August 9th 2012. Under Uncategorized Tags: Basudeb Acharia, Biosafety, BRAI Bill, Bt brinjal, Bt cotton, GM crops, Parliamentary Standing Committee
ASKS GOVERNMENT TO IMMEDIATELY STOP ALL FIELD TRIALS.
ALSO DEMANDS GOVT THROW OUT THE BRAI BILL AND BRING IN A BIOSAFETY STATUTE,
AND STOP CALLING BT COTTON IN INDIA A SUCCESS
New Delhi, August 9, 2012: Calling the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture’s report on GM crops a historic, comprehensive and ... Continue Reading
New report damns India’s GM crop regulation
Published By kavitha On Monday, March 19th 2012. Under Bt Brinjal, News Tags: Bt brinjal, India GM crop regulation
An explosive new report on the safety asseessment of Bt brinjal (eggplant/aubergine) by Prof. Jack Heinemann has been submitted to India's Minister of Environment and Forests. Its findings suggest the regulation and official expertise brought to bear on GM crops are either grossly incompetent... or worse. Latha Jishnu's article below ... Continue Reading
BRAI BILL 2011 A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO BULLDOZE RESISTANCE & CONCERNS
Published By kavitha On Wednesday, August 17th 2011. Under BRAI Bill Tags: Biosafety, BRAI, Bt brinjal, GM crops
Press Release: COALITION FOR A GM-FREE INDIA
BRAI BILL 2011 IS NO BETTER THAN ANTI-PEOPLE, ANTI-NATURE BRAI 2009: IT IS A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO BULLDOZE STATE GOVTS’ & CITIZENS’ RESISTANCE AGAINST AND CONCERNS ABOUT GM CROPS:
“WRONG BILL BY WRONG PEOPLE FOR WRONG REASONS: ALL PROGRESSIVE PARTIES AND THEIR MPs SHOULD REJECT ... Continue Reading