A Seed Europe - Info nights toxic soy

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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Info nights toxic soy

Thursday, 12 November 2009
Amsterdam on November 25 and December 1 By now more than 10.000 protest emails have been sent to the Dutch government by you and our allies from The Netherlands and abroad. Youhou!. The action will continue untill the end of November. All signatures have been handed over to the Dutch Minister Verburg of Agriculture at the Conference on social economic aspects of GMOs helt by the ministry on November 25 and 26. What this petition action is all about we have all been able to read on www.toxicsoy.org. But if you want to see it more lively illustrated with some video letters from Soy Hell Central aka Paraguay and hear the latest updates, come ....... ....on December 1 to the monthly Earth First! Amsterdam info night in Cafe Molli Chaoot (8.30pm, van Ostadestraat 55hs - Amsterdam) , or to filmic Wednesday of Joe's Garage on November 25, also with the documentaries Mother Earth and Killing Fields (see www.feedingfactoryfarms.org ) (8pm, Pretoriusstraat 43 - Amsterdam). You can also watch some of the videos on the website of LaSojaMata or order a DVD at A SEED (Dutch, German or Spanish versions available only momentarily).
Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 December 2009 )