Please ensure the policies of your political groups:
- Support maintaining state moratoria on GM food crops
- Support strict liability where the GM company is liable for any economic loss caused by their product
- Support independent health testing
- Support independent small scale performance trials
- Support ensuring the GM company is legally responsible for totally containing their product
- Support continued supply of uncontaminated GM-free seed
- Support AQIS screening to prevent GM contamination in imports.
- Support the International Biosafety Protocol.
- and
- Oppose increased costs and liabilities for non-GM farmers and non-GM consumers
- Oppose acceptance of tolerance levels
- Oppose large scale commercial release in the guise of coexistence trials
- Oppose commercial release under GM industry self management plans
Pro-GM activists are relying on farmer support for this product based on a hype that they are "progressive" without independent data detailing either performance or costs. The key pro-GM debate is that "everyone else is growing it" but GM canola is fairly limited to Canada and Canada has very different environmental conditions to Australia and Canadian farmers are increasingly subsidised to manage increased costs and decreased commodity prices. Australian farmers can not make an informed decision to support GM crops without the cost and benefits analysis needed and denied.
Please do not be bullied into submission by people with a vested interest.
You can make a difference, make your voice heard.
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