Welcome Friends,

Belated Happy World Food Day! No celebration is complete without good food. This World Food day we celebrated the safety of our food.

Efforts are on to genetically modify our food crops by inserting alien genes from bacteria, viruses etc. which are potentially dangerous for our health and environment. Instead of safeguarding our health, the government is coming up with the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) bill, to ease the entry of these genetically-modified (GM) crops in our country.

Over one lac people have already shown there opposition to this bill, which was represented by the World Record making baingan bharta, in Delhi last month. The bill can come up any time in the next Parliament session. We need to strengthen the opposition to this bill to keep our food safe.

You should add you signature to the petition asking the Prime Minister to stop the BRAI bill because it threatens our food safety.

http://www.greenpeace.in/take-action/save-your-food/say-no-to-brai.php

Public opposition helped get a moratorium on GM Bt brinjal last year. We can do this again. Lakhs of people opposing the BRAI bill will help put pressure on the PM to act.

If created, BRAI will become the sole approver of GM crops in the country. The body that cannot be questioned under the Right To Information (RTI) act, so we will never find out what goes in our food.

There are 74 GM crops under various stages of research and BRAI will ease their passage. Show your opposition to the BRAI bill now.

http://www.greenpeace.in/take-action/save-your-food/say-no-to-brai.php

Thanks a bunch,
Dinesh