MAny thanks for your response. Unfortunately I am going to be travelling
for the next couple of weeks and I do not know if I can pass on any more
messages. However I will try and send some updates via a hotmail address
and maybe you can send it to sanet. I am actually going down south where
all the action is and I will be getting more information.
Messages of support can be sent to Prof.Nanjundaswamy who is spearheading
the movement at "swamy.krrs@aworld.net"
Messages requesting the government to take action against Monsanto for
what are essentially illegal actions, can be sent to
1.The Speaker, Lok Sabha, Janpath, New Delhi, 110001
2. The Speaker, Vidhan Sabha, Hyderabad, 500004.
The latter, the state legislature of Andhra Pradesh has already discussed
the issue, and with some more international pressure may support
government action against Monsanto's field trials. The chief minister of
the state is quite a dynamic person, and is amenable to reason.
Alternatively email messages may be sent to my address, and I will
consolidate and pass on the messages.
Thanks and regards
D.Parthasarathy
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology, Powai
Mumbai, 400076, India
Phone: 091 022 576 7372
email: dp@hss.iitb.ernet.in
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 Twittman@aol.com wrote:
> Dear D. Parthasarathy,
> Thank you so much for the update. Please let me know if there is anything
> that I or others can do from this end. Most information of this kind is
> surpressed here in the US probably to ensure that we don't get alarmed about
> GE issues. The news of Indian farmers and many European farmers resisting an
> unwanted or untested invasion of the crop gene pool hopefully will inspire
> some folks here to be aware of the situation and act.
> I am part of the organic farming communitty and we are struggling to find a
> way to insulate ourselves from contamination. Consumers are looking to the
> organic communitty to provide them with non GE food. Already in the US 60% of
> our non organic food is GE, mostly our soy, wheat and corn products.
> If there is info you can pass on about this struggle please do.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas Wittman
>
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