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Published December 09, 2010, 01:29 PM

Greenpeace gathers million signatures against GMOs

BRUSSELS — Greenpeace has handed the European Union Farm Commissioner more than 1 million signatures on a petition against the further spread of genetically modified crops in the EU.

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    Protesters display posters, as they pose on a 380 square meter '3D farm' artwork by world-famous pavement artist Kurt Wenner, in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Greenpeace and global web movement Avaaz, delivered the first ever Citizens' Initiative, against the use of GMO's, inspired by the Lisbon Treaty to European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli. The Citizens' Initiative allows a million citizens from a significant number of EU member states to ask the European Commission to change European law. The panflets read:'1 Million citizens for GMO freeze'. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

BRUSSELS — Greenpeace has handed the European Union Farm Commissioner more than 1 million signatures on a petition against the further spread of genetically modified crops in the EU.

The environmental group says it wants the EU to put a stop to new GMO crops — or genetically modified organisms — until there is enough independent scientific evidence to assess the risks. It says the current EU assessment does not take the long-term effect on the environment sufficiently into account.

Outside the EU headquarters Thursday, Greenpeace activists created a huge pavement painting depicting idyllic pastoral scenes and a banner saying “One million for GMO freeze.”

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