Millau gives the recipe for legal “mowing” of GMOs

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Guy Durand, the new mayor (PS) of Millau, presented the municipal decree “prohibiting the cultivation of genetically modified organisms”.

The said culture is therefore banned, “throughout the territory of the commune”, “for the current year”, that is until December 31, 2008. On this provisional nature of the decree, the chief magistrate and jurist specifies that the law in fact excludes “a general and absolute ban since the principle is freedom and the measure adopted by virtue of the police phone number lead power constitutes the exception.” In short, a new decree will have to be issued to prohibit GMO cultivation in 2009 and so on.

It is clear that both the elected official and the politician want to use the symbol that is Millau, a city made popular by the Larzac fight and, more recently, by the “dismantling” of the McDonald's by José Bové and his friends – an action that went viral – to promote the fight against GMOs.

Text of the municipal decree of Millau

More specifically, Guy Durand and the new municipal majority are doing everything they can to inform as many municipalities as possible of the means to put a spanner in the works of GMOs, to carry out what the mayor of the sub-prefecture of southern Aveyron calls a legal "mowing down." Mayors and municipal officials itching to ban GMO crops from the municipal territory can clearly refer to the Millau municipal decree.