[Katinka]

Thanks for the great post, Sadsack!

I was talking to a friend about how many restrictions the German government has when it comes to food. Some seem to be extreme at the first thought, but many, many have a good reason.

Let me tell you guys about organic food sold in Germany. People are becoming more and more aware of the possible risks of GM food, food additives and such and often refuse to buy it. Therefore the amount of organic food offered at the supermarket is increasing on a daily basis. The shelves are full. From vegetables, fruits, meats, milk over to coffee, potato chips and even chocolate.

A specific label, logo ‘BIO’ makes it easy for consumers to identify if whether organic or not. Farmers and food producers can only achieve this logo if the food is 100% organic with no other pollutants and they are checked regularly. If any pollutants are found, they lose this logo and are not allowed to sell with this label. Their products are pulled off the market for organic food.

Since Bavaria is a farmers state, many people refuse to buy their fruits or vegetables at the supermarket and grow it in their own garden. Of course they have their own meat supply such as pigs and chickens. They say they want their food totally natural without any use of pesticides or any other contaminates.

Our previous minister for agriculture denied Monsanto’s attempted access to Bavaria which is good, I thanked her for that. Bavaria is now the only state in Germany GM free!

Before that, about 2 years ago, there was a GM test field with Mon810 10 miles away from where I live, brought out by Bayer. Who knows what all happened there...

Anyway...and about Nano. Well...I truly hope that the German government will not follow the ‘main nano stream’ and attempt to put this in our food or cosmetics, but according the citizens awareness, not to mention the media, there could be a very good chance we can prevent it.

Using nano techniques for other technologies should be the first course in order to strengthen our weak economical situation at this point.

Kat