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Major setback for Monsanto in Venezuela: By law GM will not enter the country

National Assembly drafted a new Seed Law by the popular power.

The Seed Act, also known as 'Monsanto Law', intended to be passed in
the Venezuelan Assembly will be rewritten and its opening statement be
debated and drafted jointly with farmers, keepers of native seeds.

It is a victory of social movements against GM who had already warned
of the danger of the law, which initially favored the penetration of
transnational agrochemical in the country.

Now, the National Assembly of Venezuela is responsible for preparing a
draft law aimed at banning the use and consumption of GM foods,
legislation which will go through a public consultation with the
productive sector, which will be debated at all levels of popular power
before approval in the full Legislature.

Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Yvan Gil, said Thursday that the
draft Seed Law "ensure the participation of peasant and farmer in food
production plans" and offered a "legal framework to defend companies
transnational ".

He also emphasized that the Portfolio that runs strongly supports the
initiative, adding that in Venezuela "we have a very precise and
structured in that topic for its multiple implications in human,
environmental and commercial health legislation."

The drafting of the new Law on Seeds begin on Monday 28 and Tuesday 29
October in Sanare, Lara State, where the experience of farmers seed
guardians Monte Carmelo is collected, to continue then in the rest of
the country.

The spirit of the new Seed Bill contains the struggle "to defend the
agricultural sector as large multinational Monsanto, which prohibit
patented GM seeds and the farmers market and exchange their seeds
originating", second vice president of the Parliament, the deputy White
Eekhout.

"The seed is critical in ensuring food sovereignty.
We therefore need to shield the legal framework that allows us to push
the seed as part of life and ancestral heritage, "said the
parliamentarian.