With the NSW and Victorian governments announcing the lifting of state-wide bans on genetically modified crop seed planting, Australia now moves closer to becoming a client state of Monsanto and its transnational cronies.
Morris Iemma may expect people in this state to bend over and take it, when his government makes a unilateral decision to interfere with food purity and to limit consumer choice because cross-contamination of produce and product cannot be eliminated.
He may be somewhat surprised when all of us do not blindly follow his lead.
Many on the NSW North Coast are highly suspicious of genetically modified organisms, which are largely untested with regard to human studies, and concerned about effects on plant biodiversity and virility.
Knowing the Iemma Government's lack of moral fibre, I have slowly been adapting my diet to eradicate all produce and products which are likely to currently contain traces of GMOs and likely in the future to contain a percentage of genetically modified material.
So nuts (forgive the pun) to you Mr. Iemma and any NSW farmer who is silly enough to follow your lead. I won't be eating your dodgy food.
The Northern Rivers Echo local views on GM crops last Thursday:
http://www.echonews.com/index.php?page=View%20Article&article=19128&issue=304
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