{"id":374754,"date":"2018-08-24T21:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/recolonising-india-gross-maladministration-and-the-illegal-entry-of-gmos\/"},"modified":"2018-08-24T21:34:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T20:34:10","slug":"recolonising-india-gross-maladministration-and-the-illegal-entry-of-gmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/recolonising-india-gross-maladministration-and-the-illegal-entry-of-gmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Recolonising India: Gross Maladministration and the Illegal Entry of GMOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Despite five high-level reports (listed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/12\/offshoring-indian-agriculture-is-india-becoming-a-gmo-trash-can\/\">here<\/a>) in India advising against the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops, the drive to get GM mustard commercialised (which would be India\u2019s first officially-approved GM food crop) has been relentless. Although the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has given it the nod, GM mustard remains held up in the Supreme Court mainly due\u00a0to a public interest litigation by environmentalist Aruna Rodrigues.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues argues that GM mustard is being undemocratically forced through with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indiagminfo.org\/?p=1163\">flawed tests (or no testing) and a lack of public scrutiny<\/a>\u00a0and that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/09\/25\/gm-mustard-in-india-a-case-of-monumental-fraud-and-unremitting-regulatory-delinquency\/\">unremitting scientific fraud and outright regulatory delinquency<\/a>\u00a0has taken place. She is\u00a0seeking a moratorium on the environmental release of any genetically modified organism (GMO) in the absence of: comprehensive, transparent and rigorous biosafety protocols; biosafety studies conducted by independent expert bodies; and access to biosafety protocols and data in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 24 August 2018 and in relation to the ongoing court proceedings surrounding GM mustard, Rodrigues filed an additional court\u00a0application concerning the ongoing illegal imports of GM seed, GM soy cultivation in Gujarat and the presence of GMO imports in processed foods and oils. All of this represents a back-door entry of GMOs into India.<\/p>\n<p>The application is scathing about what it calls proof of ultimate \u2018regulatory delinquency\u2019 and of the regulators and attendant&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/recolonising-india-gross-maladministration-and-the-illegal-entry-of-gmos\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite five high-level reports (listed\u00a0here) in India advising against the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops, the drive to get GM mustard commercialised (which would be India\u2019s first officially-approved GM food crop) has been relentless. Although the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) has given it the nod, GM mustard remains held up in the Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}