The new Federal Government proved for the first time its genetic engineering-friendly course. Agriculture minister Ilse Aigner was correct with the meeting of EU-Secretaries of Agriculture in Brussels for the permission of the gene corn places MIR604 of the agrochemistry company Syngenta as fodder and food. So far Germany had always contained with such votes.
Also with the voices of Germany the genetic engineering proponents in the Council of Ministers did not achieve few the qualified majority. Now the European Commission in the single-handed attempt can decide and MIR604 shortly will nevertheless permit. Above all the animal feed industry pushes on it. Because again and again Sojalieferungen from the USA with gene corn are polluted. As long as it is not certified, such Sojalieferung may not be introduced to the European Union. The green Bundestag faction accused Aigner with their agreement to the Steigbügelhalterin of the animal feed industry to have made itself.
The minister held against the fact that the European food authority EFSA gene corn had certified the safety. That made the EFSA however also with gene corn MON810, whose cultivation forbade Aigner nevertheless. Besides the EFSA came only recently again into the gossip. The prominent woman employee of the EFSA responsible for genetic engineering permissions changed to the genetic engineering company Syngenta. Friedrich Wilhelm Graefe to Baringdorf of the working group rural agriculture described into taz the new strategy of the government in such a way: To release testing, as far one can go, without to strong protests – and a habituation effect at the people obtain. So that does not enter, the Internet activists calls from Campact to the protest: No to gene corn in Europe.