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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Activists closed meat department supermarket
Climate Camp Action in Antwerpen
August 6, 2009 – A group of 40 people closed the meat department in the Delhaize supermarket on the Meir in Antwerpen. The production and selling of meat and dairy contributes world wide more to the emission of the greenhouse gasses than all the traffic and transport together. According to the activists it is about time do do something against this activity that is causing world wide so much misery.
The action went well. The security of the shopping mall reacted quite aggressive, but the manager of the supermarket prefered a group of concerned citizens informing his costumers about meat production above a big fuss in his shop.
More on the relation between meat production and climate change you can read here.
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Soy 
Climate Camp Action in Antwerpen
The action went well. The security of the shopping mall reacted quite aggressive, but the manager of the supermarket prefered a group of concerned citizens informing his costumers about meat production above a big fuss in his shop. 
