Ecobreves – MEXICO: Anti-Transgenic Food Campaign

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MEXICO CITY, Aug 8 2011 (IPS) - Greenpeace Mexico has a launched a computer application called "Clean Out Your Cupboards" to help consumers avoid industrially processed and genetically modified foods. "We have already provided information about what transgenics are, how they affect human health, the countryside and the environment, and what products contain them. We have recommended alternatives for sustainable consumption. Now we are inviting people to take action and eliminate these products from our cupboards," Greenpeace sustainable agriculture and transgenic food campaign coordinator Aleira Lara told Tierramérica.

Through the application, available on the organization’s website, users click on the food products they consume and are then informed whether these contain transgenics or are produced through sustainable agricultural practices.

At its July session, the Codex Alimentarius Commission ruled that national governments are free to decide whether or not food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) must be labeled.