By TCN News,
New Delhi: Alarmed with the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill which
will allow genetically modified food into the country, the Greenpeace has urged National
Advisory Council (NAC) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to make the Government re-draft this bill after consulting the public.
The bill, approved recently by the Union Cabinet, can be tabled in the Parliament anytime. If passed as it is, all of us will be eating genetically contaminated food.
The BRAI will be a body of technocrats whose decisions will remain unquestioned. Our state
governments and common people will not be able to question this body.
To stop this, Greenpeace, a civil society organisation working on varied issues including
sustainable agriculture, has sent an open letter to NAC Chairperson Mrs Sonia Gandhi.
The letter asks her to make the Government re-draft this bill after consulting the public.
The letter has been put online seeking signatures from the people.
http://greenpeace.in/safefood/change-brai-bill-stop-gm-food-india/