ACTON FOR LIFE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN PARAGUAY
COMMENTARY ARCHIVES, 26 Jun 2009
Sign a letter asking the president to veto the law that threatens life!
Despite being a relatively small country, Paraguay has turned into the 4th world soy exporting country. GM soy monocultures, Monsanto‘s RoundupReady soy, are destined for the agro industry in Europe and China and currently take up over 2 million hectares in Paraguay. Industrial monocultures require intensive agrochemical spraying that contaminate and impact the health of the rural, indigenous and small farmer population.
The Congress of Paraguay, manipulated by agribusiness, has recently approved a new law that promotes the indiscriminate fumigation of agrochemicals on monoculture plantations. This new law leaves the population without legal ways to defend themselves. President Lugo can veto the law and send it back for revision to the Congress, and take real measures to defend the population and the environment.
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