Subject: ALERT: Biotech Industry Pushes to Release "Suicide" Gene in Plants





Dear friend,

Consumer, farmer, and environmental organizations across the globe are
mobilizing to stop the legalization and commercialization of the
controversial Terminator Gene Technology, whereby seeds are genetically
engineered to commit suicide after one growing season. The biotech
industry and seed companies support the Terminator Technology, because it
prevents farmers from saving their seeds and forces them to buy seeds
every year.

In addition, scientists are concerned that this could lead to killing off
a wide range of crops and plants, as pollen from plants with the
Terminator gene spreads unpredictably in the wind. After a massive
international campaign in 1998, Monsanto Corporation announced they were
shelving plans to commercialize the Terminator, while the United Nations
(UN) called for a global ban. But on February 11, 2005 renewed efforts to
overturn the worldwide ban were launched at a UN conference in Bangkok.

Learn more and sign the Organic Consumers Association's petition to the
UN to terminate the Terminator Gene.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/un.htm

Please also forward this message to interested friends and colleagues.
(source: Organic Consumers Association http://www.organicconsumers.org)

Thank you!