GM email action

Have you ever received more than 80,000 emails from people all over Europe in just three weeks, all about just one issue?

Photo: View of Ruscombe valley

Not me - the 80 or so that arrive each day are more than plenty....however European Commissioners have: campaigners sent them emails showing massive support for Environment Commissioner Dimas, and warnings to the flip flopping Commissioners who
would just roll over for the agro-chemical industry. Dimas enraged genetic engineering (GE) companies last month when he refused to allow the cultivation of two varieties of genetically modified (GM) maize (Bt 11 and 1507) in the EU.

Apparently some Commissioners did not get your messages, because of "technical
problems". Commissioner Margot Wallstrom now apologies for the rejection of many thousand of messages by the EU server on her blog. She is also ensuring that the concerns you expressed through the cyber activity will be passed on to all EU Commissioners. Campaigners are now being invited to post a comment on her blog to remind her of this promise and to provide her again with the arguments to reject these two GM maizes.

TAKE ACTION

It is now expected that the key decision to approve or not to approve the genetically modified maizes will be taken in the second or third week of January by the 27 European Commissioners. In order to get Dimas' proposal through the Commissioners meeting, a majority of at least 14 Commissioners needs to support him.

We are well on track with approaching the key Commissioners. However, as you're reading this email Syngenta and friends are ferociously lobbying in Brussels to derail Dimas' proposal not to approve these GM crops. Which is why we need to keep up the pressure - urging the Commissioners to vote in favour of the proposal by the Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas to reject the authorization of two GM maizes.

Write a personalized comment on the blog of key Commissioners who will decide about the authorisation of the GM maizes and who's position is not clear yet - or send them an email from their blogsite:
Commissioner Margot Wallstrom:
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/wallstrom/
Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel: http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/fischer-boel/
Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potočnik
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/potocnik/
Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Vladimír Špidla:
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/spidla/blog_en.cfm