Greenpeace has delivered a petition containing 1m citizens’ signatures calling for the labelling of milk, meat, eggs and other animal products where the animals have been fed with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to the EU.
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Greenpeace collected the signatures in 21 EU member states between May 2005 and December 2006 and handed the petition to Markos Kyprianou, European Commissioner for Health in Brussels. The statement on its petition read: “We demand mandatory labelling of animal products based on GMOs because of citizens’ right to information, a fundamental right in the European Union.”
Under current EU law, foods like cooking oil, ketchup and cake mix have to be labelled if the ingredients include 0.9% GMOs or more, but food products derived from animals fed with GMOs – meat, milk, eggs – do not need to be labelled at all, Greenpeace said.
“This petition is a call for the EU to stop letting GMOs in through the back door of Europe and onto our plates through a loophole in the law,” said Marco Contiero of Greenpeace European Unit. “We will be asking Commissioner Kyprianou today, when we deliver the 1m signatures, to grant citizens the right to choose for themselves whether to eat food from animals fed with GMOs.”
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