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Petition to clearly label GM foods
Sustain members GM Freeze and Beyond GM have joined together to launch a new petition to protect consumers’ rights in knowing whether they are buying food made from GM ingredients.
The Don’t Hide What’s Inside petition is presented jointly by campaign groups GM Freeze and Beyond GM due to fears that a no-deal Brexit will erode the requirement to label food containing genetically modified ingredients.
Liz O’Neill, Director of GM Freeze believes that they have the support of the public: “We know that people in the UK want GM products to be clearly labelled and European Union regulations currently make that happen. The Government’s “no deal” technical paper on food labelling doesn’t even mention GM so we are deeply concerned that this key tool for consumer choice could be quietly shelved.”
Pat Thomas, Co-Director of Beyond GM agrees adding that “The current ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ approach to post-Brexit GMO labelling only benefits multinational corporations that are, through international trade deals, trying to foist GMO crops and foods onto the UK market. While these deals, so often negotiated in secret, use words like regulatory ‘harmony’ or ‘equivalence’, often these are just euphemisms for removing sensible consumer protection.”
The petition can be signed online.
Published Thursday 11 October 2018
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