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Everyone without exception is in favour of labelling foodstuffs containing GMOs in order to inform the consumer and ensure the traceability of these products throughout the production and distribution chain. These measures are mainly a matter of show, however, because it will be difficult for labels, controls and other inspections to prevent the propagation of pollen, the interpenetration of the two food circuits – the one with, and the other without, GMOs – and, finally, the victory of the biotechnologies of the multinational, Monsanto, and of the other giant American seed companies.
This Pharisaism on the part of European leaders, who pretend to control the GMO phenomenon – for health reasons as uncertain as the would-be positive contributions of these genetically manipulated products to world agriculture – is made all the more ironic by its timing. Indeed, it was when the French farmers’ leader, José Bové – of symbolic importance throughout the world in alerting people to the real or overestimated dangers of GMOs – was imprisoned at excessive, disproportionate expense that the European Parliament pronounced upon this subject.
Labelling for GMOs and imprisonment for those who oppose GMOs. Therein, in short, lies the ambiguity of these biotechnologies and of the European position."@en1
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