Site with information about the impacts of large monocultures, specifically soy, on people's lives and the environment.
The Soy Campaign
A SEED's soy campaign questions large scale soy production in South America and supports sustainable and local food production in Europe. The campaign has the following goals:
To inform the general public about the social and ecological effects of the massive soy production in Latin America; land conflicts, violence, rising pesticide use, GMOs, deforestation, erosion and loss of food sovereignty.
To link the issue with meat production and consumption in Europe; Most of the soy is used as animal feed in Europe (and China). This meat industry creates animal cruelty and pollution by over-fertilisation.
To stop the current certification processes; nature conservation organisations and some NGOs, together with companies, are creating criteria for so called 'responsible soy' that are unacceptable for local peasants and don't question the current export-volume neither the use of genetically manipulated seeds.
To give direct support to local initiatives that fight the soy expansion by giving international attention to their struggle, doing solidarity actions in Europe and raising money.
While the problems related to soy production are continuously increasing, a new campaign focus is taking shape: fuel and electricity produced from agriculture products. Recently the threat of climate change and the increasing scarcity of fossil fuels has sped up this alarming development.
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A week with meat, cheese, panda bears and big feet.
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
Amsterdam, November 2008 - In the last week of October our meat consumption and land use was a lot in the news. The Dutch mainstream media mentioned clearly that the consumption of meat, dairy products, cars and holiday trips by plain of the average Dutch person occupies a too big portion of the available natural resources and land. At A SEED we couldn't resist to mumble the arrogant sentence "We have said this before".
Soy 
Amsterdam, November 2008 - In the last week of October our meat consumption and land use was a lot in the news. The Dutch mainstream media mentioned clearly that the consumption of meat, dairy products, cars and holiday trips by plain of the average Dutch person occupies a too big portion of the available natural resources and land. At A SEED we couldn't resist to mumble the arrogant sentence "We have said this before".