The Agriculture Ministry announced on Thursday that all allegations of
Greenpeace officials regarding the growth of genetically modified organisms
(GMOs) on the Braila Great Island (Insula Mare a Brailei). Greenpeace
militants announced that the ministry ignores the GMO soy and corn crops and
refuses to destroy the cultures.
After first responding that destroying the cultures is a
responsibility of the Environment Guard, the Agriculture Ministry returned
and added that their official tests revealed the absence of any GMO crops on
Insula Mare a Brailei. Even more, the officials accused Greenpeace of
damaging Romania's image.

On the other hand, Greenpeace claims that the ministry provides false
information. "We discovered GMOs in the Braila area and we have official
results from the laboratories in Vienna to prove it.

The Environment Guard analyzed only probes taken from a single
location and they didn't even have the proper equipment to run the
analysis", said Gabriel Paun, Greenpeace campaign coordinator, in an
interview for Hotnews.ro.


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