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发帖数: 518 | 1 英国继续禁止转基因
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/28/gm-crops-will-continue-banned-
britain-brexit-says-michael-gove/
GM crops will continue to be banned in Britain after Brexit says Michael
Gove in blow to UK/US trade deal
Christopher Hope, Chief Political Correspondent
28 November 2017 • 9:00pm
Food made from genetically modified crops will continue to be banned in the
UK after Britain leaves the European Union, Michael Gove has suggested.
The Environment secretary’s admission could damage Britain’s attempts to
negotiate a trade deal outside of the EU because the US is expected to push
for more GM-based foods to be sold in the UK.
Britain is under intense pressure from the US to drop the EU's ban on GM
foods after Brexit to help speed a trade deal with the US.
However the EU has insisted that food standards will not be compromised if
the UK and the EU are to agree a trade deal after Britain leaves the EU in
March 2019.
Over the past two decades European Union scientists have passed 40 crops as
safe; yet only one – a GM version of maize – is grown in Spain as animal
feed.
Mr Gove was asked by The Telegraph at a conference whether after Brexit GM
food is more likely to be sold in the UK, and if he would eat chlorine-
washed chicken, which the US is keen to export to the UK.
Michael Gove
Michael Gove Credit: TOBY MELVILLE/ REUTERS
He replied: “No and yes,” before hastily trying to cover up for his
admission by adding “but probably in whichever order you prefer”.
Earlier this month on a visit to the UK, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
said food regulations are among several “landmines” that could obstruct
negotiations with America on a new trade deal.
He said compliance with EU food standards on GM crops and chlorine-washed
chicken could pose problems in trade negotiations.
Mr Ross said on Nov 6 that restrictions imposed by the EU were “really not
science-based”.
Mr Ross said “We're huge trading partners with each other and our economies
are in many ways more similar to each other than either of us is to most of
Europe.”
But Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, said on Nov 20: “The UK has
chosen to leave the EU. Does it want to stay close to the European model or
does it want to gradually move away from it?”
In the months after Brexit, ministers in the Environment department talked
up the possibilities of GM food being licensed for sale in the UK.
George Eustice, the farming minister, said in October last year: "There are
a number of GM crops which have been cleared as safe by the European Food
Safety authority, cleared as safe for at least a decade but are still not
authorised because the politics of the EU gets in the way.”
He said that "once you have arrived at a common understanding on science we
should be free to legislate to authorise products that have ultimately been
judged safe".
Asked if this could be done by 2020, a year after the UK is expected to
leave the EU, he said: “Yes, easily. These sorts of changes, these
regulatory changes, you would hope to have in place by then.”
In his speech to a conference organised by the Country Landowners’
Association Mr Gove blamed EU policies for a collapse in the numbers of
birds and bees on British farmland.
He said the damage was linked to the EU’s focus on producing rather more
food rather than “any other benefit”.
Mr Gove said that any new funding for farming would support “high quality
production and to ensure that the sinews of the rural economy remain strong
”.
It was a “matter for negotiation” whether Britain’s farmers were subject
to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy in any transition period after the
UK leaves the EU, he added.
Britain’s farming and fisheries sectors could “diverge” away from EU
regulations during the transition period, he suggested.
Earlier this month Mr Gove told a peers' committee that while there is “no
question” tehe chicken is “fit for human consumption” in health terms,
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发帖数: 518 | 2 GMO ban letter sent to UK Parliament
(GMO) cause deadly harm to mankind and nature:
15th of March 2017
Genetically modified organisms (GMO) cause deadly h
arm to mankind and nature: we call for a full and perma
nent ban in the UK.
Dear Minister,
In 1999 The Lancet published a study showing that g
enetically modified potatoes caused stomach and
intestinal lesions in rats.
In the early 2000s, the UK government ran farm-sc
ale trials of GM crops to assess their impact on weeds and farm biodiversity.
The outcome for GMO was negative; no GM crop
was approved . A study recently published in Nature’s Scientific
Reports shows that GMO corn is not substantially equivalent to natural corn
. The study found that, under molecular profiling, 117 proteins
and 91 metabolites were found to be significantly a
ltered in Monsanto’s NK603 corn by the GM
transformation process. The health and nutritional
effects of these mutations are negative. Indeed, th
ere are many published studies showing harm caused by G
MOs and of altered, poorer nutritional content.
It is clear the genetically modified crops are not
the same as, or even substantially equivalent to, n
atural, non-GMO crops. This is because the process of genet
ic engineering simply cannot happen in nature.
Please refer to the enclosed Fact Sheet for further
information.
GM crops are grown using industrial farming methods
that destroy biodiversity, poison our environment
and our lives. In March 2015, the World Health Orga
nization declared glyphosate, the most used
pesticide in GMO and industrial farming, as a Class
2A probable human carcinogen. Neonicotinoids,
widely used in GMO farming, still under an EU legal
moratorium on use, are even worse. They are the
most toxic pesticide created by man, and are killin
g the bees which mankind needs to survive on this p
lanet.
Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have requested
an opt-out to the commercial cultivation of GMO
crops where under EU law member states now have the
right to refuse, one-by-one, any EU-approved
GMO crop being cultivated in their soils. The major
ity of the EU’s nations have also chosen to exercise
this opt-out, because they recognize the real scien
ce on GMOs. Isn’t it time England did the same,
irrespective of whether the UK leaves the EU or not?
As such, we write to you to demand an immediate
full and permanent ban under law in the
United Kingdom of any cultivation of genetically mo
dified, engineered or edited crops (made by e.g.
CRSPR technology or cisgenysis), animals or insects
for commercial or experimental use in animal feed
or human consumption, including importation of any
food stuffs, plants or livestock that contain any
genetically modified, edited or cloned DNA, RNA, pa
rticles or microbes.
Furthermore, all imported foodstuffs containing ANY
genetically altered material (GM) must be
CLEARLY LABELLED. We demand that ALL foodstuffs be tested for GM co
ntent. (The laboratories carrying out the testing must have no GM industry t
ies.) We include all meat, eggs, fruits, vegetables,
processed foods and all dairy products – in short -
ALL food – NO EXCEPTIONS. The labelling must
be in clear and precisely written English (NO CODIN
G, free phone numbers or website look-up
references). Only foods with zero per cent (0%) GM
content can be labelled as GM free.
This may seem extreme but the published scientific
evidence shows this is necessary if we are to lead
a natural, healthy life; our soils, animals, birds
and insects also. For we do not only poison ourselves
but we poison nature too, which in turn poisons us.
There is a way out of this vicious cycle and that is
a complete and outright, permanent ban on all genet
ically modified, engineered or edited organisms,
micro-organisms and DNA, all organisms created by c
isgenesis and RTDS, and a ban on the all pesticides, glyphosate and all
neonicotinoids especially.
We thank you for reading this letter and look forwa
rd to your response.
Laima Cox-Lipskis
Karl Cox, PhD
Representative of
The World Foundation for
The World Foundation
Natural Science (UK) GMO Depar
tment |
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