The article explores the incident of civil society pressurising the Government of France to incorporate mandatory labeling of food products from animals, as required under the Aarhus Convention.
A group of citizens on Tuesday addressed the state and the European Union, for a mandatory labeling of food products from animals fed with GMOs.
The group bases its claim on the rights of consumers to transparency.
"In France today, GMOs are not allowed to culture but they are allowed to massively import", particularly for animal feed, said the campaign "GMO Transparency".
For meat but also eggs, dairy products or any processed food derived from animals fed with GMOs products, labeling is "an absolute necessity to allow consumers to make choices economically and environmentally responsible," says Bernard Astruc, coordinator of "Consumers not guinea pigs! "Created in 2012 and holder of the campaign.
Petition
Launched the petition they collected 240,000 signatures, including that of Marc Jolivet, Coline Serreau, Antoine, Irina Brook, and is the million, the source said.
"We are fighting for democracy", said Tuesday at a press conference biologist and pioneer of in vitro fertilization (IVF) Jacques Testart, recalling that in 1998, the beginnings of the commercialization of GMOs, a citizens' conference had called the measure "things have not advanced much! "
Since 1997 it is mandatory to indicate the presence of GM ingredients in food products. However manufacturers are not required to indicate whether the animals providing the meat, milk or eggs, have themselves been fed with GMOs.
More transparency
The query "Consumers not guinea pigs" is supported by Action for the Environment, the movement Hummingbirds, France Nature Environnement (FNE), the National Federation of Organic Agriculture (FNAB), the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, Friends of the Earth or yet interregional Movement of AMAP.
It is based on "non-compliance" of the Aarhus Convention on access to information and environmental justice, text, signed in 1998 by 39 states, explain the authors.
"The time has come to demand that our human rights, environmental and health are met: we have the right to freely buy or not, knowingly, foods containing GMOs," says Astruc.
The application should be addressed to the Ministry of Economy (DGCCRF), with copies to the Ministries of Ecology and Agriculture, and the General Secretariat of the European Commission
