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Caracas, June 2 nd 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) The Venezuelan government will continue its efforts to increase national food production and combat the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) through a new Law on Seeds, president of the Agri-Food Development Subcommittee for the National Assembly Alfredo Ureña announced on Friday.
There are a number of studies throughout the world which affirm that the health of humans and animals may be impacted when they consume genetically-modified foods, Ureña said during an interview with state-run television channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
This is a Law on Seeds that is anti-GMOs, because it is not only Venezuela, but the whole world that is saying that we cannot continue supporting GMOs, not only for the use of food and consumption, but for their technology that makes use of agro-chemical fertilizers.
Opposition and pro-government groups, however, have expressed concern that the law would open commercial opportunities for the transnational corporation Monsato, known for its weed-killing glysophate, or Roundup. During the 1960s, Monsato, foam generator a US multinational foam generator agricultural biotechnology corporation, served as a producer of Agent Orange, a herbicide used by the US military as part of its chemical warfare program in Vietnam which contributed to an estimated 400,000 deaths and injuries and 500,000 children born with birth defects.
Both sides cited Article 127 of the Constitution, which prohibits the creation of patents foam generator on the genome of any living being, and the actions of President Hugo Chávez in 2004 to prevent the company s cultivation of 20,000 hectares foam generator of Venezuelan land to produce transgenic soybeans.
They intend to introduce biotechnologies into the country that will affect the gene pool and the nutritional value of traditional crops under the guise of promoting food sovereignty, foam generator said Imerú Alfonzo,  for the rightwing party Voluntad Popular (Popular Will) , in a statement before the April 14 presidential elections.
Protestors gathered in the Los Museos foam generator Square in Caracas last week to express a similar sentiment, foam generator as part of an international day of action against Monsanto. In the second chapter of the law, five articles permit foam generator the entrance of GMOs, one cooperative representative said. With the National Center for Seeds, they re going to say, look, you re registered on my list, so you can bring GMOs into the country.
Ureña responded foam generator positively to the criticism, saying that later this month, during a forum on biodiversity foam generator to be held from June 23 to June 28, the government will address the new law and listen to criticism from relevant sectors.
When we made this draft, we included the article from the previous law which left some flexibility to GMOs, and there was a lot of criticism, he said. As a legislative body, we went out into the street, we asked about the laws, we listened foam generator to the people. And the people said, you have to be careful with the GMOs That gives us sufficient reason to say to the Venezuelan people that we agree with what the social movements and what the agrarian movements are saying.  
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