{"id":22442,"date":"2010-02-10T01:52:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T06:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=22442"},"modified":"2011-06-03T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T22:57:59","slug":"jai-krisna-india-bans-gmo-foods-on-safety-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/jai-krisna-india-bans-gmo-foods-on-safety-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Krishna! India bans GMO eggplants on safety grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I am understanding this correctly, India has become the first country to ban genetically a modified crop on safety grounds. This, according to BBC. Here is a quote that’s making me feel like I live on a different planet: “Public sentiment is negative. It is my duty to adopt a cautious, precautionary, principle-based approach,” <\/em>Mr Ramesh said. The precautionary principle is: you err on the side of safety. Apparently this puts production of all GMO crops in India on hold. I am not tracking the things that are happening for the first time as Chiron moves up on Neptune for the third and last time for this orbit — but we really have a fine example here. Here is the article, straight from the Beeb:<\/p>\n

India has deferred the commercial cultivation of what would have been its first genetically modified (GM) vegetable crop due to safety concerns.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said more studies were needed to ensure genetically modified aubergines [eggplants] were safe for consumers and the environment.<\/p>\n

The GM vegetable has undergone field trials since 2008 and received approval from government scientists in 2009.<\/p>\n

But there has been a heated public row over the cultivation of the GM crop.<\/p>\n

The BBC’s Geeta Pandey, who was at the news conference in Delhi, says Mr Ramesh’s decision has put any cultivation of GM vegetables in India on hold indefinitely.<\/p>\n

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If I am understanding this correctly, India has become the first country to ban genetically a modified crop on safety grounds. This, according to BBC. Here is a quote that’s making me feel like I live on a different planet: “Public sentiment is negative. It is my duty to adopt a cautious, precautionary, principle-based approach,” … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}