Genetic Engineering Action Network GEAN USA seeks to support and further the work of those organizations and individuals working to address the risks to the environment, biodiversity and human health, as well as the socioeconomic and ethical consequences of genetic engineering.



GEAN`s 4 Core Principles:

1. Choice: Prior informed choice is essential to a democratic and accountable food system. Therefore, the mandatory, clear, accurate, complete labeling of all products, whether foreign or domestic, derived from, processed with, produced by, containing or consisting of GE organisms should be required.



2. Assessment: We need a publicly enforced and fully transparent government system to assess the socioeconomic, environmental and human health impacts of genetic engineering that conforms to rigorous scientific standards, requires a demonstration of a reasonable certainty of no harm, shifts the burden of proof and cost to the manufacturer and permanently codifies the Precautionary Principle.



3. Protection: We must protect family farmers, workers, consumers and the environment by ending all monopoly practices of corporate agribusiness by enforcing anti-trust and market concentration laws, banning patents of seeds, plants, animals, and terminator type technologies, and renewing public interest agricultural research.



4. Liability: Any entity, excluding family farmers, engaging in research, development or manufacturing of genetically engineered or modified products must assume all liability for harm to health and the environment including, but not limited to: the transfer of GE traits, transgenic drift, destruction of wildlife and habitat and the short and long term effects on human health and the environment