Leaked:US-Lobbyarbeit für Monsanto in Europa

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Eine heute veröffentlichte Depesche verdeutlicht, wie die US-Regierung versucht, im Interesse des Biotech-Monopolisten Monsanto, Einfluß auf die EU zu nehmen, um die Einführung gentechnisch veränderten Saatguts in Europa zu bewirken:

" Summary: Mission Paris recommends that that the USG reinforce our negotiating position with the EU on agricultural biotechnology by publishing a retaliation list when the extend "Reasonable Time Period" expires.(...) In France, the "Grenelle"environment process is being implemented to circumvent science-baseddecisions in favor of an assessment of the "common interest."Combined with the precautionary principle, this is a precedent withimplications far beyond MON-810 BT corn cultivation. Moving to retaliation will make clear that the current path has real costs to EU interests and could help strengthen European pro-biotech voices.In fact, the pro-biotech side in France -- including within the farm union -- have told us retaliation is the only way to begin to begin to turn this issue in France.(...) Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective responsibility, but that also focuses in part on theworst culprits. The list should be measured rather than vicious and must be sustainable over the long term, since we should not expect an early victory."

07PARIS4723, FRANCE AND THE WTO AG BIOTECH CASE

Einer zweite Depesche aus Madrid thematisiert die spanische Kampagne gegen gentechnisch veränderte Organismen und fordert eine "high-level intervention" der US-Regierung:

"ACTION REQUESTED: In response to recent urgent requests by MARM State Secretary Josep Puxeu and Monsanto, post requests renewed USG support of Spain's science-based agricultural biotechnology position through high-level USG intervention in support of the EFSA findings. Post also requests USG support for a non-USG science fellow to meet with influential Spanish interlocutors on this issue and assistance with developing an agricultural biotechnology action plan for Spain. Post would alsowelcome any comments from other posts concerning the anti-GMO campaign."

cable 09MADRID482, SPAIN'S BIOTECH CROP UNDER THREAT

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" Ultimately, what these cables reveal is that U.S. biotech companies, and the government officials they support, are desperately trying to find new markets in the face of rapidly declining popularity. "Even in Spain and Poland, the only countries in the European Union where there's GMO acreage, attitudes have dropped dramatically," says Michael Hansen, PhD, a senior scientist at the nonprofit Consumers Union. "They're desperately trying to get that acceptance." And in some cases they're doing so at the expense of taxpayers. USAID, a division of the State Department that supports international development, spent $200 million in 2009 on "food security response" programs designed to alleviate world hunger by improving agricultural productivity. One of the main ways they do that is through promoting the use of biotechnology and GMO crops, which, as stated earlier, may be useless in fighting world hunger due to their inability to consistently increase crop yields. One of its biotechnology success stories USAID likes to tout is that of genetically modified eggplants for India, which were ultimately rejected by Indian farmers skeptical of GM crops after Monsanto's Bt corn led them into huge debt (anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva estimates that 200,000 Indian farmers committed suicide because of financial debt linked to Bt cotton)."






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