A-Infos (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #19-25 - This is not the time for TEA. The fight against new GMOs starts in Parma (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

"Is it time for Tea? Oh no". The opposition to the new GMOs, the 
so-called TEA, an acronym that stands for Assisted Evolution Techniques 
(in English NBT-New Breeding Techniques or NGT-New Genetic Techniques) 
starts in Parma. In the afternoon of Saturday 14 June, a national 
demonstration was held, promoted by the movement "Cambiare il Campo" 
which was joined by various associations and organizations from the 
farming and environmental world. The procession passed in front of the 
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which is playing an important 
role in the deregulation processes of the new GMOs. In fact, the first 
experimentation in Italy of genetically modified tomatoes, according to 
TEA technology, is planned in Parma.

The planting of the seedlings is taking place right now in a field of 
the organic and experimental company Stuard. After a sit-in in front of 
the farm gates, some public meetings open to citizens, the screening of 
videos and the presentation of the procession, the demonstration 
gathered the support of farming groups from all over Italy: from 
Mondeggi Bene Comune to Urupia, from La Terra Trema to the Associazione 
Decrescita, from the Biodistretto della Valle del Panaro e 
dell'Appennino modenese to Genuino Clandestino, Greenpeace Italia and 
Legambiente.

The demonstration, starting from the train station, followed the route 
in the city center area making various stops, interventions and 
theatrical performances, to then arrive in the evening at the Parco ex 
Eridania. Where it concluded with moments of conviviality, food, music 
and theatrical performances on the theme.

The demonstration wanted to express favor to agroecology, an ecological 
system that values small producers and local economies, healthy and 
natural food, respect for seeds for the land, self-management of 
agricultural resources. An alternative, which already exists and is 
practiced by many farmers throughout Italy, as well as by organizations 
and associations, which represents a concrete model and the main road to 
remove agriculture from the capitalist logic of maximum profit, an 
unsustainable model, with enormous environmental and social impacts. 
From this perspective, the protection of soil and water as essential 
goods is fundamental.

As fundamental is the creation of solidarity networks, largely already 
existing, to counter the new GMO experiments that have little to do with 
agriculture and a lot to do with industry and chemistry. The new fight 
against GMOs that, compared to those of 20 years ago, again only have 
names, starts and restarts from Parma. Hoping that it can be the first 
step in a long path of claims and action on the issue of new experiments 
and against the deregulation of genetically modified foods. At European 
level, with the Commission and the Council continuing to push in this 
direction, the risk is that we will arrive at the non-classification of 
TEA products as GMOs. A hypothesis that would have as a consequence the 
removal of traceability and labeling, instead foreseen for genetically 
modified organisms.

"Let's say yes to promoting the natural regeneration of biodiversity - 
we read in the text of the appeal for the demonstration of June 14 - to 
the conservation of soil and water, true riches of communities and 
effective defenses against adversity. Yes to the fundamental right of 
farmers to conserve, reproduce, participatory selection and freely 
exchange their own seeds. Let's say yes to food self-determination, to 
the construction of small-scale networks based on relationships of 
solidarity and mutualism, in support of peasant agriculture, with the 
work of the land in collective self-management, not slave to the laws of 
the market. Let's support peasant realities, preserving them from 
disappearing and encouraging the return to the land for agroecology in 
opposition to the multinationals of agriculture and industrial food".

EmmaG

https://umanitanova.org/questa-non-e-lora-del-tea-la-lotta-contro-i-nuovi-ogm-parte-da-parma/
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