Ici on parle de tout et n'importe quoi mais pas de cannabis, ni d'autres drogues : quiz, politique, actualité, médias, manifestations, etc. tout en restant bon esprit et sans flood inutile !
Viewing cable 09MADRID482, SPAIN'S BIOTECH CROP UNDER THREAT
2009-05-19 12:12
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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
¶7. (SBU) Anti-GMO forces periodically attempt to build support for a prohibition on GMO cultivation in Spain. According to Monsanto's biotechnology director, two left-wing parties have recently discussed introducing such legislation in the Spanish parliament. A Socialist (ruling) party Member offered reassurances that his party would oppose such a move, but advised that the issue bears watching, especially given the government's uncertain majority.
¶8. (U) In addition, there have been worrisome developments in several of Spain's 17 autonomous communities, which, led by
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Catalonia and the Basque Country, continue to seek more autonomy via a vis the central government. In March 2008, the Canary Islands were declared GM-free. Since fewer than 1,380 acres of corn are grown in the Canaries, this is considered mostly a symbolic gesture.
However, on February 5, 2009, an initiative was proposed in the Catalonian Regional Parliament to declare the region GM-free. The initiative has not yet come up for a vote, and its prospects are uncertain. Such an action would be cause for serious concern, since Catalonia is a center of GMO corn cultivation. More recently, on
April 21, 2009, the Basque Parliament passed stringent biotech coexistence legislation which could likely force farmers to halt planting of MON810 due to strict compliance issues. The SpanishAssociation of Biotechnology Industries (ANOVE) will challenge the
Basque legislation.
¶9. (U) In February 2008, France notified to the EC an Order
suspending cultivation of MON810 and further invoked safeguard and emergency measures to provisionally prohibit the cultivation of MON810 on its territory. In response, the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued a Scientific Opinion on October 29, 2008. In its report, the panel assessed the package of documents supporting and justifying the French safeguard clause and the duration of the invoked measure. The panel concluded that, in terms of risk to human and animal health and the environment, the information
provided by France presented no new scientific evidence that would invalidate the previous risk assessments of MON810. It further concluded that invoking the safeguard clause and emergency measure was scientifically unjustified. The EU is currently facing the MON810 cultivation renewal process. The renewal is the legal condition for the lifting of the ban under French law. Within the scientific review carried out by EFSA, the Spanish authorities and experts have completed the environmental risk assessment for MON810 corn. According to Monsanto, the EFSA Scientific Opinion report is
being questioned. The GOF has sent letters to different Member States urging them to sign up and request an in-depth examination of the application for the renewal of MON810.
¶10. (SBU) Monsanto asserts that anti-MON810 momentum was gained by a de facto agreement between the Government of France and Greenpeace/Friends of the Earth whereby the GOF would support the GMO-free movement if activists turned a blind eye to President Sarkozy's nuclear energy initiatives. In Spain, agricultural factions against agricultural biotechnology include the environmental side of MARM and organic farmers. Increasingly, consumers are also expressing negative attitudes toward genetically
modified crops. On April 18th, the newspaper "El Pas" conducted a survey on whether or not GM food should be prohibited. The following results were obtained after a one month period: 85 percent voted "Yes, they can be dangerous" and 15 percent voted "No, they are absolutely safe".
¶11. (SBU) Secretary of State and Deputy Minister Josep Puxeu contacted the Charg d'Affaires on April 22, following the Basque vote on coexistence and the German ban, to express his concern that the Government of Spain is under increasing pressure to ban MON810 cultivation. Puxeu, a long-time supporter of agricultural biotechnology, lamented that it was "the most complicated week of my life." He asked that the USG maintain pressure on Brussels to keep agricultural biotechnology an option for Member States and requested that the USG work together with Spain in this endeavor. Deputy
Minister Puxeu is becoming increasingly isolated on biotech issues at the Ministry OF Environment and and Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM) due to the rising influence of environmental officials within MARM as well as the increased influence of France within the Spanish government. While MARM Minister Espinosa has come out publicly in favor of genetic engineering in agriculture, her views on issues will generally reflect those of the Zapatero Administration which has recently shown itself to be fickle when it comes to voting against France's anti-GMO interests.
¶12. (SBU) ACTION REQUESTED: In response to recent urgent requests by MARM State Secretary Josep Puxeu and Monsanto, post requests renewed USG support of Spain's science-based agricultural biotechnology position through high-level USG intervention in support of the EFSA findings. Post also requests USG support for a
non-USG science fellow to meet with influential Spanish interlocutors on this issue and assistance with developing an agricultural biotechnology action plan for Spain. Post would also welcome any comments from other posts concerning the anti-GMO campaign. DUNCAN
Sachant que la logique des OGM est uniquement le contrôle mondial des semences et de toute la nourriture..
"Dans ce monde de fous qui nie sa folie, il y a un plaisir à être fou que seul un fou connaît." Paagal Baba
Programme de la saison 2011/2012 : Critical Mass, C99 BX1, Bubba KushxOTM, X Dog, Mango Dog, HazexSkunk #1
En cours : C99 BX1, Bubba KushxOTM, X Dog
"De l'irréel conduis-moi au Réel, des ténèbres à la Lumière, de la mort à l'Immortalité." Les Upanishad
comme quoi, exploser wiki n'est peut être pas la meilleur technique pour le faire taire ... maintenant, il a fait des petits le sale gosse
Gabon 'siphoned funds' to France
wikileaks informe du détournement de millions de $ au Gabon sous Bongo, qu’il garde la majeure partie sur des comptes en Suisse pour financer les campagnes de Chirac et Sarkozy ...
D'ici a ce que certain(s) baigne dans tout ça au travers de la Carlyle maintenant connu de tous http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_group il n'y a qu'un pas à franchir espérons que notre saint Eric ne l'ai pas franchi .... nous serions une fois de plus honteux ...
Dated July 7, 2009, the memo was published on Tuesday by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, which obtained the document marked "Confidential" from WikiLeaks, the whistleblowing website.
The affair become public in October 2009, three months after the embassy memo was written.
Omar Bongo, the late president, and his son, Ali Bongo, the country's current president, were among those who profited from the stolen money, the embassy's unnamed source said.
Citing a "senior third-country national" working at the bank as its source, the memo says that the Gabonese officials involved "used the proceeds for their own enrichment and, at [Omar] Bongo's direction, funnelled funds to French political parties, including in support of French president Nicolas Sarkozy".
Both France's ruling UMP party and the Socialist party accepted embezzled money, the source said, though the former received the bulk: "especially [former French president Jacques] Chirac and including [current president Nicolas] Sarkozy".
"Pris dans un sens absolu, le mot de « progrès » n’a point de signification, puisque le monde est infini et que, dans l’immensité sans borne, on reste toujours également éloigné du commencement et de la fin.
"Pris dans un sens absolu, le mot de « progrès » n’a point de signification, puisque le monde est infini et que, dans l’immensité sans borne, on reste toujours également éloigné du commencement et de la fin.
et tout le monde s'en contrebranle c'est bien triste
Un prisme déformant peut être à l'origine du parasitage des esprits, un signal fort qui brouille le message véhiculé par l'image ... aie! (moins 2 neuronnes)
quoi !? ............................. bon d'accord je fini mon pet visiblement bien bon
"Pris dans un sens absolu, le mot de « progrès » n’a point de signification, puisque le monde est infini et que, dans l’immensité sans borne, on reste toujours également éloigné du commencement et de la fin.
espérons que notre saint Eric ne l'ai pas franchi .... nous serions une fois de plus honteux ...
Thx!
aie! (moins 2 neuronnes)
je fini mon pet visiblement bien bon 