2009-08-07 | permalink

Augusta-Margaret River Shire (Australia) local doctors say NO to GMO

LOCAL doctors have waded into the GM debate, presenting their own petition against the introduction of genetically modified crops to the Augusta-Margaret River Shire. At last week’s shire meeting councillors were expecting a public petition, containing almost 1500 individual signatures and those of 134 business people in the shire, but the doctors petition, handed over by Eddie Donato, came as a suprise to some. [...] All are concerned about the as yet unidentified risks GM food may have on human and animal health, and the contamination of locally produced food.

• Augusta-Margaret River Mail, Australia: Local doctors say NO to GMO
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia: Shire to make GM-free decision
• The West Australian, Australia: Margaret River doctors join GM foods protest