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Campaign against GM crops stepped up
Posted by: Prof. Dr. M. Raupp (IP Logged)
Date: January 13, 2009 04:02PM

An eco-friendly group from Chennai, Poovulagin Nanbargal, is all set to step
up its campaign against genetically modified crops and create awareness on
growing crops using traditional methods of agricultural practices.

The group plans to mobilise a large number of students from various schools
and colleges from across the city next month and expose them to a two-day
training camp where they will be made aware of the harmful effects of
consuming genetically modified food.

In line with its agenda, the group hosted a traditional Pongal festival here
on Sunday where a group of women cooked pongal using only organic grains and
sugar and distributed them to hundreds of onlookers who relished its natural
taste.

According to G Sivaraman, managing trustee of Poovulagin Nanbargal,
genetically modified vegetables can seriously affect health by causing
allergies and inducing fertility complications.

He wondered how the Indian Government could approve genetically modified
crops to be grown in the country when there was a ban on them in Europe,
Australia and New Zealand.

?The Union Government is planning to give its nod in March for growing BT
brinjal in the country for commercial purposes without doing sufficient
research on it. The government is also ignorant about the various health
hazards that such a move will entail,?? he said.

The other main drawback of growing such genetically engineered crops was
their seeds can only be manufactured in laboratories, he remarked.

?About 70 per cent of all cottons used in the country is BT cotton, which is
less problematic to humans as they are not consumable. But it has severe
impact on the land on which it was cultivated. There have also been reports
of livestock death after consuming the cotton seeds,?? he said.
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