Please sign the GM-free Ireland Petition
The GM-free Ireland Network is now collecting signatures for a petition requesting Bertie Ahern, Mary Coughlan and Dick Roche to protect our health, environment and food security by legal action to keep Ireland free of genetically modified (GM) animal feed, seeds, trees, crops, livestock, fish and food. GM food and farming impose unacceptable health, environmental, and economic risks to Irish consumers, farmers, and future generations.
We want to collect as many signatures as possible.
31 January 2006 is the deadline set by the Department of Agriculture and Food for final comments on its plan to "ensure the co-existence" of patented and genetically modified (GM) crops with conventional and organic farming.
GM crops can not "co-exist" without contaminating farmers crops, which then become the property of Monsanto and other patent owners. They can never be recalled after their release. This will cause Ireland to lose its share of the EU market for safe GM-free food. 70% of EU consumers and the 60 leading food brands and food retailers in the EU refuse GM food.
Please act now:
add your signature online
or
download the petition form, print it, sign it, collect more signatures, and return it by post to this addess:
GM-free Ireland Network
Little Alders
Knockrath
Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
