'GM Free Karnataka' activists observe one-day fast

Ahead of the Bt Brinjal public hearing here next month, activists belonging to 'GM Free Karnataka'  observed a one-day fast here today.

Expressing their unwillingness to accept Bt Brinjal, activists comprising consumers, farmers, youth and scientists alleged that approval of genetically engineered Brinjal without proper tests had caused a "national outrage among independent scientists, consumers, farmers and civil society groups".

The protesters wore huge eyes and ears covering made of thermocol symobolising that they 'are hearing and watching the
proceedings on Bt Brinjal and refuse to eat toxic food'.

Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa has said he would not allow
cultivation of the genetically modified Brinjal in Karnataka.