GMO news related to Australia

18.10.2007 |

Columbans warn pro-GM food lobby has eyes on Australia

The Columban Missionaries say the biotech industry which promotes GM food as a solution to global hunger is trying to get GM food crops into Australia. In a statement for World Food Day today, the Sydney-based Columban Centre for Peace, Ecology and Justice warns there is strong pressure on State Governments to lift moratoria which were placed in 2003/04 on the growing of GM crops. [...] The Columban Centre for Peace Ecology and Justice on World Food Day 2007 calls on the Australian State Governments to continue the GM Food Moratoria till 2015

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