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I’m an agriculturist, I respect the land I cultivate and I demand it isn’t contaminated.

3 May 2010 View Comments

Post by Daniella Petruccio

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In the last few days I have learnt with a pinch of stupor that a Friulian agriculturist claims the right of freedon to sow asking to be free to cultivate OGM cereals.

During this time we have assisted in a lot of initiatives and theories pro OGM. Often superficial because there is too much speculation over the reality of the fields that are often more complex than most people believe. In the countryside there is such a variability and unpredictable number of events that one can not absolutely understand the certainty that are foreign to this world.

The numerous ‘reassurings’ zones of respect that should separate the cultivation of OGM from the conventional are no more than centres of a genetic vehicle. All the studies that support the pro OGM theories constitute only a small part of the reality.

The life of an agriculturist is made of many rights but also many duties, above all the salvation of one’s territory. For this simple reason first the right to sow comes with the respect for the environment for and for who works there. Unfortunatly for some this is a small insignificant detail, even agriculture doesn’t miss who thinks to be able to cure only their own interests.

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