“Farmers protest against bill on GMO farming”, 10 Dec 2015
OPPONENTS to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) turned up in full force at key sites in 47 provinces…to demand that Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha suspend the Biological Safety Bill until it is properly amended…
…BioThai director Witoon Liencham-roon said…the bill should embrace a preventive approach by taking into account possible economic and social impacts on all stakeholders. He said the bill's amendment should also include liability and redress concepts mentioned in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol, as well as pay attention to the opinions of the National Economic and Social Development Board and the Commerce Ministry…
"The bill fails to rein in GMO impacts on the country's food security," he said…
Direk Kongngern, head of the Northern Farmers Federation, said yesterday that most of the group's members grew maize in the North, and expressed concern on two points, namely prevention of contamination when growing GMO plants for commercial purposes and the safety of people's daily food supply…
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