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Bulgarians protest against GM foods
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesliev
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
A sign held up during anti GM foods protests in Sofia on January 31 2010 reads "Do not kill your children with GM foods"
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
A sign held up during anti GM foods protests in Sofia on January 31 2010 reads "GM food is trading with our health."
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
Children at an anti GM foods protests in Sofia on January 31 2010
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
Signs held up during anti GM foods protests in Sofia on January 31 2010 read "Our health is not for trade" and "GMF = imperialism."
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
A sign held up during anti GM foods protests in Sofia on January 31 2010 reads "Say no to GMF."
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
About 300 people protested in the centre of Sofia against proposed amendments to the Genetically Modified Foods Act (GMFA) on January 31 2010, Bulgarian news agency BTA said.
Protests were held in front of the National Library, under the motto "Clean food, a healthy earth! Bulgaria GM foods free." Later, protesters marched to the buildings of Bulgarian National Television and the Bulgarian Parliament.
The protesters demanded any decision on loosening GM foods restrictions to be postponed until a wider public debate on the topic had been held, BTA said.
Organisers wanted any changes to the GMFA to limit the use of GM foods to scientific purposes. Proposed changes only served the interests of a small group of interested parties and foreign companies, organisers said.
The protests were organised by the coalition To Sustain the Nature and a committee of parents and citizens.
Protests were held in front of the National Library, under the motto "Clean food, a healthy earth! Bulgaria GM foods free." Later, protesters marched to the buildings of Bulgarian National Television and the Bulgarian Parliament.
The protesters demanded any decision on loosening GM foods restrictions to be postponed until a wider public debate on the topic had been held, BTA said.
Organisers wanted any changes to the GMFA to limit the use of GM foods to scientific purposes. Proposed changes only served the interests of a small group of interested parties and foreign companies, organisers said.
The protests were organised by the coalition To Sustain the Nature and a committee of parents and citizens.
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You're an idiot Dianne. Try reading up on the history of where our food comes from and the modification of plants centuries before you were born and you might just learn a thing or two.
Is there any crop grown in Bulgaria that has not been modified? Farmers have been improving crops, cross-breeding and cross-fertilizing, as long as there have been farmers. If you don't like current foods try the originals some time. They exist in seed banks. Especially don't eat those Columbus brought back from the New World, above all peppers and corn. Try the original maize sometime. Dreadful, but unmodified. VLADISLOV
Hoorah. That means all the EU countries that have the sense to ban GM foods can now grow the crap here !