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2007-03-23 | permalink
Brazil postponed a vote on whether to approve Bayer AG’s gene-modified corn seeds after Greenpeace International protesters stormed the meeting. Members of the environmental group entered the closed-door session held by the government’s biotechnology council and demanded to participate in the talks, said Gabriele Vuolo, coordinator of Greenpeace’s campaign against gene-altered seeds. ”We believe these sessions must be open to the public because they will have an impact on people’s lives,” Vuolo said in a phone interview from Brasilia. ”The transgenic corn will end up on the plates of Brazilians.”
2007-03-23 | permalink
Brazil postponed a vote on whether to approve Bayer AG’s gene-modified corn seeds after Greenpeace International protesters stormed the meeting. Members of the environmental group entered the closed-door session held by the government’s biotechnology council and demanded to participate in the talks, said Gabriele Vuolo, coordinator of Greenpeace’s campaign against gene-altered seeds. ”We believe these sessions must be open to the public because they will have an impact on people’s lives,” Vuolo said in a phone interview from Brasilia. ”The transgenic corn will end up on the plates of Brazilians.”
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