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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] GM BANNED IN VENEZUELA--MONSANTO TERMINATED
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:11:14 -0600

VIVA VENEZUELA--GM BANNED IN VENEZUELA--MONSANTO TERMINATED!
Venezuala's President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced that the
cultivation of GM crops will be prohibited on Venezuelan soil,
possibly establishing the most sweeping restrictions on transgenic
crops in the Western Hemisphere. Though full details of the
administration's policy on GMOs are still forthcoming, the statement
by President Chavez will lead most immediately to the cancellation
of a contract that Venezuela had negotiated with the US-based
Monsanto Corporation.

Before a recent international gathering of supporters in Caracas,
President Chavez admonished GM crops as contrary to the interests
and needs of the nation's farmers and farm workers. He zeroed in on
Monsanto's plans to plant up to 500,000 acres of transgenic soybeans
in Venezuela. "I ordered an end to the project," said President
Chavez, upon learning that transgenic crops were involved. "This
project is terminated."

President Chavez emphasized the importance of food sovereignty and
security - required by the Venezuelan Constitution - as the basis of
his decision. Instead of allowing Monsanto to grow its transgenic
crops, these fields will be used to plant yuca (an indigenous crop),
Chavez explained. He also announced the creation of a large seed
bank facility to maintain indigenous seeds for peasants' movements
around the world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,714504,00.html
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3307




  • [Livingontheland] GM BANNED IN VENEZUELA--MONSANTO TERMINATED, Tradingpost, 04/26/2004

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