After the Green Party?s historic agreement to form a coalition
government with Fianna Fail, the parties revealed their agreed policy ?to
negotiate for the whole island of Ireland to become a GMO-free zone?.
The Green Party, working on both sides of the border, will get two
Cabinet Minister positions in the new government. Green Party leader Trevor
Sargent, TD, confirmed he would work very hard within the new government to
get Green Party policies implemented. He added that the establishment of a
GMO-free zone in Ireland was a project that he would enthusiastically work
on since there was not much time left to rescue that status, but it was
vital as a food-producing island operating in markets looking for GM-free
food and if that status was lost, there would be no turning back.

The GM-free Ireland Network had brought main farmer organisations
together with Brazil?s largest exporter of certified non-GMO soy beans for
discussion to phase out the use of GM animal feed in Irish farming.
Representatives of the Irish Farmers Association, the Irish Creamery and
Milk Suppliers Association, the Irish Cattle and Sheepfarmers Association as
well as of the Northern Ireland branch of the UK National Beef Association
were present.

A GM-free Ireland Network spokesman congratulated the new government
and invited Trevor Sargent to address a briefing on Food Safety and GMO at
the European Parliament Office in Dublin.


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