轉基因食品摧毀歐洲農業 歐盟卻開綠燈

轉基因食品摧毀歐洲農業 歐盟卻開綠燈
GMO foods destroying European agriculture given green light by EU
Tuesday, 16 March 2010 10:28

轉基因食品'戰爭'不可能勝利：歐盟官員
'Battle' on GM foods can't be won: EU official

(AFP) – Mar 2, 2010

SOFIA — European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek said on Wednesday he was against genetically-modified foods but said they were an unavoidable part of the future.
索非亞 - 歐洲議會主席布澤克週三表示，他反對基因改造食物，但說它們難以避免是未來的一部分。
Asked by students in Sofia whether he was against GM foods, after the EU approved their cultivation, he said: "I am, generally speaking, against because we don't know what will be the long-term effect of it."
在索非亞時被學生問到他是否反對轉基因食品，在歐盟批准種植後，他說：“概括地說，我是反對，因為我們不知道它會有什麼長期影響。”
"But we cannot win that battle," added the Polish European lawmaker.
“但是，我們不會贏得這場仗，"波蘭的歐洲國會議員補充。
If Europe decided to keep itself free from genetically-modified products it risked losing out in terms of competitivity, he warned.
如果歐洲決定保留自己擺脫基因改造產品，它有可能喪失競爭力，他警告。
"We cannot win this battle, so I am not fighting," the European Parliament president said.
“我們贏不到這場仗，所以我不打了，”歐洲議會主席說。
GM foods were also necessary in countries like Bangladesh, where salty-drop hurricanes were devastating rice paddies, he argued.
轉基因食品在國家如孟加拉亦有需要，在那裡鹹滴旋風毀滅了稻田，他爭論。
"No rice can grow there except for GM rice. Without GMO (genetically-modified organisms), half their population should die. Can you take such a decision?" Buzek asked.
“除轉基因水稻無米可在那裡生長有，沒有轉基因生物體（GMO），一半的人口應要死亡。你能下這樣的決定？”布澤克問。
A European Commission decision on Tuesday to approve the cultivation of genetically-modified potatoes prompted an angry response from environmental campaign groups across Europe.
歐盟委員會週二決定批准種植轉基因馬鈴薯，引起了來自歐洲的環保運動團體的憤怒回應。
Asked whether he supported individual EU member states declaring themselves free from GM food despite the EU ruling, Buzek said no country could run checks on every single imported product in a global economy.

"We are having a lot of GMO around even if we are against. It is very difficult for us to stop it. But it is always possible to try," he said.

Bulgarian organic food supporters recently staged a string of protests following a parliament debate on easing restrictions for growing GM products outside research laboratories and close to protected areas.

On Wednesday, Buzaek was handed 3,000 postcards hand-made by Bulgarian children calling for Bulgaria to remain GM free.

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轉基因戰爭在歐洲這裡開始