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2009-03-17 | permalink
Monsanto and WTO are blamed for promoting gene-modified production into Azerbeijan
The Azerbaijan Free Consumers’ Union (AFCU) has found culprits of the fact the law on ecologically clean farming includes permission on turnover of products with content of gene-modified organisms (GMOs). Union’s chairman Eyub Huseynov says there is information that the permission was included into the law under strong pressure of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that acted in the interests of Monsanto Corporation (US), the global leader developing GMOs.
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2009-03-17 | permalink
Monsanto and WTO are blamed for promoting gene-modified production into Azerbeijan
The Azerbaijan Free Consumers’ Union (AFCU) has found culprits of the fact the law on ecologically clean farming includes permission on turnover of products with content of gene-modified organisms (GMOs). Union’s chairman Eyub Huseynov says there is information that the permission was included into the law under strong pressure of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that acted in the interests of Monsanto Corporation (US), the global leader developing GMOs.
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