{"links":{"self":"https://preview.epetitions.website/archived/petitions/66364.json"},"data":{"type":"archived-petition","id":66364,"parliament":{"period":"2010-2015","government":"Conservative – Liberal Democrat coalition","dissolution_at":"2015-03-30T23:59:59.000+01:00","response_threshold":10000,"debate_threshold":100000},"attributes":{"action":"Ban (GM/GE/GMO) Genetically Modified crops being grown in the UK","background":null,"additional_details":"We want genetically modified crops to cease being grown and a ban on all future genetically modified crops from being grown on United Kingdom land.\r\nGenetically Modified crops have been altered by humans by forcing non-food genes – from other species – into the DNA of plants, changing the very nature of the food itself.\r\nGM can cross-pollinate and spread their altered genes to other plants, and make it into non-GM crops and foods. This process will contaminate organic farms, home-growers, allotment growers and commercial farm land. The Organic certification from UK organic farming will be affected.\r\nMany countries around the world have banned, are banning or are moving towards a ban of GM farming and/or GM crops. The adverse effects that GM farming will have on the health of the land, wildlife and the people of the UK are, at best, unknown.\r\n\r\nWe want a ban on genetically modified farming in the UK. We want the UK to be GM FREE!","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":1,"created_at":"2014-06-13T17:41:37.000Z","updated_at":"2020-02-16T19:30:03.050Z","rejected_at":"2017-06-21T12:44:32.778Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2014-06-13T17:41:37.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_at":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"rejection":{"code":"duplicate","details":null},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}