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” Most people don’t know of where comes their food and are unconscious of the impacts and the consequences of their food choices”, he/it has added.

According to Eric Darier, the proliferation of the blue algaes, of the OGM, of the pesticides and herbicides, of the pork lisier, of the ethanol to the corn is the symptoms of non lasting agricultural practices of which the consumers and the environment make the expenses.

It is why Greenpeace asks the Québecois government to “abandon his/her/its approach of crisis management in agriculture and to take the turn of the agroécologie” quickly.

More specifically, the international organism wishes that the quarter of the Québecois agriculture is biologic from 2015, and that this proportion reaches 50% from 2025. Until then, Greenpeace continues to recommend the obligation to indicate the presence of organisms genetically modified (OGM) on the transformed products, as well as the abandonment of the use of the OGM in the agricultural production.

In the same way, the organism recommends to create a ” food ecological and social indicator” who would be added to the labeling of all food. This information would allow the consumers to be informed of the means of production used and of the source of food that they eat.

To encourage turn health

These preoccupations also join those that option consumers expressed before the Commission on the future of agriculture and the agroalimentary québécois2.

The consumers are more and more numerous to question itself/themselves on the content of their plate, sustained Nalini Vaddapalli, analyst in agroalimentary among Option consumers. The organism wishes that the table becomes again the center of agriculture.

” To Quebec, the consumption of precooked meals increased 470% while the other transformed food grew of more than 700%, between 1986 and 2001 »3, sustains Option consumers.

The organism worries about the impact of this type of products on the consumer’s health that should have access to more of information to the grocery store in order to make illuminated choices.

Control of the quality

Where the Quebecois spend them for himself nourrir?4

Grocery stores and supermarkets:  51% restaurants:  29% repairmen and specialized stores:  12% stores of alcoholic drinks:  8%

” To assure the health of the consumers, the state and the agroalimentary path must adopt an agricultural development politics also better integrated, that will hold account not only of the quantity of food produced, but also of their quality”, indicated Nalini Vaddapalli.

Option consumers propose therefore that the government adopts an approach based on the principle of precaution that would measure, among others, the interaction between food, the products and the substances used in agriculture.

This approach would also imply the establishment of a system of traçabilité to assure the innocuité of the commodities, in addition to identify the genetically modified organisms (OGM).

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