Greenpeace releases Safe Food Guide version 2.0

Posted on 02 Sep 2010 | 0 Comments

ShareGreenpeace today released the Safe Food Guide version 2.0 that ranks 25 of the most popular food companies which hold a major share of the market in India. Based on their responsibility towards Indian consumer on the GM food issue, the Guide categorizes companies as green, yellow and red.
Dabur and KRBL emerged as the [...]

Science for profit or profit for science

Posted on 20 Aug 2010 | 5 Comments

Science is not just about creating what does not exist in nature; it is also about understanding nature and finding out the implications if we meddle with it. With GM crops scientists are doing just the former, conveniently forgetting the latter.

Cabinet approval of BRAI bill 2010- a blow to the public vote against Bt Brinjal

Posted on 17 Aug 2010 | 0 Comments

ShareNew Delhi, 17th August 2010: Greenpeace today condemned the UPA Cabinet approval to Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill 2010 and appealed to all political parties to oppose it from being tabled and passed in Parliament .
“Greenpeace appeals to all political parties to demand a withdrawal of the cabinet approval of the BRAI Bill [...]

Greenpeace India launches “Living Soils” campaign; call to save soils from harmful impacts of chemical fertilizers

Posted on 03 Aug 2010 | 0 Comments

ShareGuwahati, 3 Aug 2010: Greenpeace India today launched “Living Soils”, a nationwide campaign with a call to implement Government policies to save soils from the harmful impacts of chemical fertilizers. This campaign assumes significance in the context of the Central Government acknowledging[1] the agrarian crisis due to soil degradation and initiating a reform in its [...]

Organic farming gives Indian farmers greater financial security

Posted on 15 Jun 2010 | 1 Comment

ShareHyderabad, 15th June, 2010: A Greenpeace report released today said the monetary benefits of organic cotton farming are much greater than using the Genetically Engineered variety that makes farmers more vulnerable to financial collapse due to high debts and increased costs of cultivation.
The report titled “Picking Cotton – The choice between organic and [...]

Picking Cotton: The choice between organic and genetically engineered cotton for farmers in South India

Posted on 14 Jun 2010 | 2 Comments

SharePicking Cotton
Poverty and hunger continue to be widespread in India. The majority of these hungry and poor people live in rural areas, with a livelihood dedicated to agriculture. Some 86% of Indian farmers are smallholders, of less than 5 acres (2 hectares). About 65% have rain-fed farms without irrigation facilities.
There is widespread propaganda that genetically-engineered [...]

Citizens demand arrest of Minister Prithiviraj Chavan, demand BRAI bill be withdrawn

Posted on 20 Apr 2010 | 9 Comments

ShareApril 20, 2010 New Delhi: The Minister for Science and Technology, Prithviraj Chavan was demanded to be arrested for establishing the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) today at the Anusandhan Bhavan Premises today. The group of volunteers dropped a 20 feet long banner, which read “Arrest the Minister, Drop the GM food [...]

Citizens uphold their right to know about and reject GM foods

Posted on 16 Apr 2010 | 0 Comments

ShareApril 16, 2010, New Delhi: An overwhelming majority – 94 per cent – of people say that they have the right to reject genetically modified foods (GM foods), revealed a citizens’ opinion poll released today by Greenpeace. The poll on genetically modified foods intended to understand citizens’ awareness and preferences related to GM foods, [...]

The bill to end the right for safe food

Posted on 01 Mar 2010 | 6 Comments

Genetically Engineered (GE) crops are organisms created artificially in labs through a process called recombinant DNA technology. The unpredictability and irreversibility of Genetic Engineering and the uncontrollability of GE crops in the environment coupled with studies pointing at the potential risk to human health and environment has resulted in a controversy across the world around the need for introducing such potentially risky organisms. This had also resulted in most countries in the world putting in place a precautionary approach towards GMOs reflected in their regulatory systems. India currently has a regulatory system in place, the intention and efficiency of which had been under question.

Proposed Biotechnology Authority threatens safe food

Posted on 01 Mar 2010 | 3 Comments

The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India [BRAI] bill is to be tabled in the ongoing budget session of the parliament.