Spliced Bread – The Threat of Genetically Engineered Wheat in Australia
(http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/australia/resources/reports/GE/ge-spliced-bread-report.pdf)
Greenpeace
Australia is on the brink of a complete shift in the way that we produce and consume food. Our most important staple crop and major agricultural export – wheat – is under serious threat. While the Australian Government increases trials of genetically engineered (GE) wheat, multinational chemical companies are gaining control of Australia’s wheat industry. If GE wheat prevails, it will have a widespread impact on Australian consumers, farmers, the economy and the environment. We need to act now, before GE wheat is on Australian supermarket shelves in everyday foods like bread, pasta and breakfast cereals. Rather than investing in unsafe and uncertain GE crops, Australia needs to strengthen its ecological farming techniques and secure a safe food future.