Featured today (Tuesday, 25th Feb.) in Independent Science News: Global Civil Society: The Dire Consequences of Secretive Biotech Regulation
Synopsis: Global Civil Society groups are rejecting, on the basis of their first-hand experiences of past biotechnology, a major new push for insiders to regulate biotechnologies of the future. The new Civil Society Statement, which summarises some of the disasters produced by existing biotechnologies, is signed by over 50 global nonprofit groups including: Via Campesina, the Pesticide and Agroecology Network (PAN), MASIPAG (Philippines); Family Farm Defenders; The Alliance for Humane Biotechnology; Bangladesh Krishok Federation; Farmworker Association of Florida; Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement; Organic Consumers Association; Regeneration International; and others.
A short introduction and the Global Civil Society Statement, and the full list of signatories, can be read at:
