OscailtIrish GMO potato experiment cancelledCo. Council declares Meath a GMO-free zone - BASF forced to cancel GMO experiment - Press conference at European Commission Office 10am Wednesday
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2006-05-10T11:22:02+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=75960http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifWon the battle but have we won the war?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1486912006-05-10T11:22:02+00:00TerenceThis announcement at the cancellation of the GM trials has got to be the best ne...This announcement at the cancellation of the GM trials has got to be the best news that I have heard in a long time.<br />
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While this battle has been won, we have to ask ourselves have we won the war? And I would say No. Because this attack on our environment and our health will continue. They will no doubt step back for a short while, but will soon start applying the pressure either to start a new trial somewhere else in the country, but this time offering more carrots -no pun intended, or they will phone their friends in government who will try to intervene directly.<br />
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Who knows these GM trials could be declared of national strategic importance, in which case under the new pending Infrastructure Bill which will give the government power to over-rule everybody and anybody, they could then impose the scheme on us again backed of course by the media and security apparatus of the state to ensure all opposed to it are vilified in the press and arrested if necessary.<br />
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Please note for those interested in the disaster that is GM, there is very good critical coverage of it on the website of The Institute of Science in Society. <br />
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Url below.Is it cancelled?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1486942006-05-10T11:46:00+00:00CuriousUnfortunately the Council vote does not have any legal standing so there is no o...Unfortunately the Council vote does not have any legal standing so there is no onus on BASF or the EPA to act upon it. Politically of course it is a huge step and will make it more difficult for the GM lobby to press ahead with more licenses here. Hopefully it will also encourage other Councils to follow suit.Not so fasthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1487032006-05-10T13:00:31+00:00Curiois2The trials are NOT cancelled.......BASF are meeting with Government officials th...The trials are NOT cancelled.......BASF are meeting with Government officials this week.hmmmmmmmmhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1487062006-05-10T13:11:49+00:00Curious2Irish Indo
Wednesday May 10th 2006
MEATH County Council has this week declared...Irish Indo<br />
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MEATH County Council has this week declared the county a "GM-free" zone but admitted the Environmental Protection Agency had already given the go-ahead to grow genetically modified potatoes there. <br />
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The council declared itself a "GM-free local authority" ............<br />
..................German chemical giant BASF said yesterday that it will decide in the next few days whether to go ahead with its trial of genetically-modified potatoes in Co Meath. ..............But the declaration by Meath County Council does not appear to have any legal status. <br />
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Indeedhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1487082006-05-10T13:22:08+00:00curiousIt would appear as though the original post is mis-titled. Several regions in EU...It would appear as though the original post is mis-titled. Several regions in EU states have passed laws to ban GM but these have or are being challenged by the EU - on behalf of the corporations who, through the US Government at WTO level, claim that they are interfering with competition and the market.GMOs and the farmer's friend!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1487102006-05-10T13:46:45+00:00Coillte, and proud of it!‘Croke Patrick and the lament for the farmer’s friend’ was the name of an articl...‘Croke Patrick and the lament for the farmer’s friend’ was the name of an article that appeared in the Mayo Association Yearbook 2000 and again in 2002. The farmer’s friend was that lady that spent two to three hours turning locally produced farmer’s produce into good wholesome meals: - once known as the full time housewife. Today, the average meal maker (both couples working outside the home) only has 10 minutes to prepare the evening meal; thereby opening up a latent demand for tomatoes that don’t go off, GMOs etc. <br />
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GMOs are a by product of our chosen lifestyle. Irish farmers are also suffering the drop in sales of locally produced produce because of the falling birth-rate. There are close to 250,000 less children under 20 years of age in Ireland today than in the early 1980s. There might be more money around but it ain’t buying more food. Small local bakeries, drapery shops, national schools etc have closed down right around the country due to lower numbers of children (the official excuse is because of large supermarkets, but this is only one link in the excuse).<br />
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During the time of the great football years of Charlton and McCarthy, Jack Bootman the then president of the GAA was asked if he feared a potential threat from soccer. He indicated that the biggest challenge to the GAA was the falling birth rate. His comments went into outer space! Ignorance now reigns supreme in modern Gaelic Ireland and a lack of the true understanding of our present day welloffness. There are many amateur Soccer and GAA clubs that today are put to the pin of their collar to keep up the great traditions associated with games in their country areas.<br />
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We dismantle one icon after another of old Ireland, but we lack the skill to know the repercussions. Our schools no longer teach the subjects that gave us this knowledge or undrestanding e.g. Christian Doctrine, Classical Greek (the cradle of great thought and scientific discovery), Latin etc. Now all this seems to be replaced by ‘science for manipulation’ subjects i.e. business studies, accounting, and economics and so on. Our teenagers are programmed to behave like machines to fit in with a rudderless economic and Godless EU society! The lack of understanding is personified by the gusto that the USI is backing the distribution of condoms. <a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75915" title="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75915">http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75915</a><br />
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It appears that GMOs are inextricably linked with modern Western society and both will fizzle out together despite the best efforts of the anti GMO lobby. Being anti GMO is a symptom of our better understanding but is lost because of the dismantling of many other associated beliefs that went with such understanding i.e. those beliefs that result from the study in past days of ‘science for understanding’ subjects.Domination delayed?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1487152006-05-10T14:55:15+00:00freakhttp://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/stories.php3?ca=38...14020
Clash over claim...<a href="http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/stories.php3?ca=38&si=1611106&issue_id=14020" title="http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/stories.php3?ca=38&si=1611106&issue_id=14020">http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/stories.php3?ca=38...14020</a><br />
Clash over claims at Navan anti-GM meeting - Meath Chronicle<br />
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Meanwhile, Meath County Council on Monday adopted a motion from Green Party councillor Tom Kelly to declare Meath a GM-free local authority.<br />
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The council also adopted Colr Kelly’s motion calling on the EPA not to allow the experimental growing of any GM products in Meath.<br />
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Members, including Fine Gael Trim area councillor, Peter Higgins, Colr Higgins suggested that, under the planning legislation, the question of whether or not this was an exempt development could be investigated. He said the council should seek advice on whether or not this trial required planning permission.<br />
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Council chairman, Colr Brian Fitzgerald, said he wanted an informed debate on the issue. A decision already had been made to have the matter discussed at Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) level. He told FG councillor, William Carey, who wanted the matter dealt with in the new County Development Plan, that it could still be included in that document.<br />
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IBIA IBEC biotech lobby talks up solving world hunger!Con-sciencehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1487252006-05-10T16:09:29+00:00freakNicholas McCabe, a 74-year old retired Fianna Fáil Councillor from Co. Louth.Far...Nicholas McCabe, a 74-year old retired Fianna Fáil Councillor from Co. Louth.Farm at Moynalvey beside the Teagasc Grange Research Centre in Summerhill. Teagasc denies it owns the land.<br />
BASF Ireland Limited Bracetown Business Park Clonee Co Meath the situationhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1488882006-05-12T02:33:55+00:00ollieHowever, the county council are asking an bord pleanala if the trial should have...However, the county council are asking an bord pleanala if the trial should have planning, because it is not strictly agricultural, in their eyes.<br />
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The council adpoted a motion which suggests the trial is 'experimental' and therefor more in line with industrial development, and of an experiemntal nature at that. <br />
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The EPA claim (rightly) that they are the competent authority, but they cnanot even comment on planning disputes between the local authorities and an bord pleanala.<br />
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The most likely outcome of this decision is a delay. A redefination of GMO trials as non-agricultural is another possibility, though probably a less likely one.<br />
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Other factors, such as public disquiet, could of course also effect the decision...it could be, like the nuclear power station at Carinsore point in 1981, 'posponed' - FF don't do 'cancelled'Democratic deficitehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1489322006-05-12T16:20:24+00:00freakAre EPA the competent authority they don't seem to think so.
"A lot of the issu...Are EPA the competent authority they don't seem to think so.<br />
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<em>"A lot of the issues raised here (green image, GM free status, economic profit for companies, no market for GM crops, farming in decline etc) are policy matters pertaining to GM crops and I believe that they are a matter for the Government who decides on policy in these areas and thus fall outside the Agency’s remit.<br />
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Whether Ireland should be a GM free zone is a policy matter for the government and outside the remit of the Agency.<br />
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I note that public opinion is opposed to eating GM food, however, this is again a policy issue and is outside the Agency’s remit.<br />
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The regulation of GM food is outside the Agency’s remit as previously outlined under section C above."</em><br />
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Thanks for the update Ollie, saying it was cancelled was bit foolish.GMO experiment cancelled for this yearhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75960#comment1513482006-05-28T04:55:06+00:00freakOK the cancellation for this year has been confirmed by BASF themselves, it seem...OK the cancellation for this year has been confirmed by BASF themselves, it seems like they had never left much leeway time wise for the review and granting of the license that they have now recieved, and afaik it seems to be the monitoring conditions in the licence introduced by those in the EPA committee who are less eager to give BASF free reign that has deterred them. <br />
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It can't doing any harm to email to your MEP to ask them to sign an agreement to allow individiual nations and region to ban GMO like Poland has just done.<br />
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You can find ready list of the e-mails to the MEPs and also example of letters which you can use at <a href="http://icppc.pl/pl/gmo/index.php?id=224" title="http://icppc.pl/pl/gmo/index.php?id=224">http://icppc.pl/pl/gmo/index.php?id=224</a>.