Here's an ICPPC action aimed at holding the European Parliament Agricultural Committee's members individually responsible for their shameless promotion of the GM corporate agenda.

More on the background:
http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7377

You can find this action in German here:
http://www.attac.de/wtal-agrar/aktionen.html

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Dear friend!

We need to pile the pressure onto the MEPs who are about to make crucial decisions about our future without consulting or listening to us!!

So we are following up our last letter to you with this EASY ACTION way of reaching them - before it's too late.

!!! Below there is a READY LETTER. Please:

1. copy the READY LETTER onto the new e-mail

2. add your name and address to the end of the letter

3. write "MOTION FOR A EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RESOLUTION on Biotechnology" in the 'subject'

4. copy addresses of Agricultural Committee MEPs below - and send the message to them

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best wishes,
Julian Rose and Jadwiga Lopata, ICPPC

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ICPPC - International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside, Miêdzynarodowa Koalicja dla Ochrony Polskiej Wsi

34-146 Stryszów 156, Poland tel./fax +48 33 8797114 [email protected], www.icppc.pl www.gmo.icppc.pl www.eko-cel.pl

**********************READY LETTER**********************

Dear Sir/ Madam,

I am deeply concerned about the Agricultural Committee's debate on the future of GMO. We will all be affected by the decisions to be made as an outcome of this debate, which is why I am now writing to request your answer to the questions in the below letter.

I look forward to receiving your response.

How many of your constituents asked you to support the increase of GMO in European agriculture and food?

In what respect are science based decisions on GMO meeting European citizens' needs better than public opinion based decisions?

What independent analysis have you read:

a) showing European competitiveness criteria will be better met by biotechnologies' prospects?

b) concerning the mid-term and long-term performance of GMO and their effects on other crops, the environment and human/animal health?

Do you support the "coexistence" of GM and non- GM crops?

What evidence do you have that genetically modified organisms will not cross contaminate other crops/plants in, and beyond, the area in which they are planted?

What steps are you recommending to farmers whose crops become contaminated by genetically modified organisms?

Will you support the rejection of the