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News from Curitiba, Brazil: Terminator rejected!

Just an hour ago here in Brazil, the Chair of the UN meeting announced that governments have agreed to reject language that would have undermined the moratorium on Terminator. Groups, communities and individuals across the world have joined together in this fight to ban Terminator and your action has been effective in thisi mportant first step.The Ban Terminator Campaign will continued to monitor the meetings today and next week.
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info night about GMO resistance

Potato revolt in the 21st century: support the GMO resistance!

Sunday April 22 - Plantage Doklaan 8, Amsterdam

Information evening with videos on the Big Potato Swap action in Wetteren (Belgium) last year, the upcoming trial of 11 participants and upcoming new actions. Defendants will tell you about the action Wetteren, their trial strategy. ASEED will give a brief overview of the situation on Genetic Manipulation in Flanders and the Netherlands, as well as explain a citizen inspection of Biotech Valley in Ghent on May 9.

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Picture report action "GMOs off the field!"

In addition to the report you can find here more pictures of the action 'GMOs off the field!' at the field with GM-mais near Drimmelen and Hooge Zwaluwe in the western part of the Dutch province Noord Brabant.
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"Millions Against Monsanto" campaign launched

The Organic Consumers organisation in the US started a campaign against biotechmultinational Monsanto. Sign the "Millions Against Monsanto" petition, demanding that the Monsanto Corporation stops intimidating small family farmers, stops force-feeding untested and unlabeled genetically engineered foods on consumers and stops using billions of dollars of US taypayers' money to subsidize genetically engineered crops - cotton, soybeans, corn, and canola.

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Pigs and chickens - how animal breeding gets dominated by the biotech-business

With stock-breeding there are animals and feed that those animals are supposed to eat so humans will be able to consume the meat, milk or the egg. This is in general a not very efficient way of producing food, but this is how it has been done for many millenniums. The scale of this process is increasing ever more and on the A SEED website you can find a lot of information about the problems that result from this.

But the developments continue: now there is the Monsanto pig™ that is eating Monsanto feed™. And also The Netherlands is participating with enthusiasm; Hendrix Genetics is one of the world leading companies when it comes to hybrid chicken, pigs and turkeys. Read more...  

Gentech overboord! - alle verslagen van de actiezeiltocht over de Waddenzee

Van 3 t/m 15 augustus 2005 heeft een groep activisten een tocht gemaakt langs de noordelijke provincies om gemeenten en boeren op te roepen hun regio gentechvrij te verklaren. De tocht bracht hen langs Den Helder, Texel, Terschelling, Harlingen, Leeuwarden, Emmeloord, Enkhuizen en Lelystad.
Lees alle verslagen en bekijk de foto's!


 

Call for solidarity with GM activists in Spain

On Thursday October 19th, the court case takes place against Albert Ferré for an anti-GM action against a wheat field near Lleida - Spain in 2003. He is facing jail and a huge damage claim. Transgenics Fora! (Transgenics Out! - a grass root platform from Catalunya - Spain) calls for active solidarity with him and another anti-GM activist. These are the first two cases in court. Read more...  

Pamphlet protest action "GM Soy issues sidetracked"

(Handed out at GMO Conference 2009)

Dutch debate on socio-economic impacts GMO’s: Sidetracking the real issues?

The Dutch Ministry of Agriculture today organises a conference about a very important topic: the socio-economic impacts of GMO’s. End of last year, the EU Environment Ministers decided that socio-economic criteria should be developed for GMO’s. But at this conference, the real issues seem to get sidetracked.

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The Dutch Agriculture Ministry and the conference organisers are using this debate for another aim: to set the ground for a ‘review’ of the EU GMO policy. They claim, along with the biotech and animal feed industry, that the EU admission procedure for new GMO’s is too slow. In particular, they want to see the EU zero-tolerance policy regarding non-authorised GMO’s to be abolished. The argument for this is that this policy causes economic damages for Europe’s factory farms. The focus therefore is not on the real socio-economic impacts that soy production and factory farms cause around the world.

Critical speakers on RR soy production (including the Paraguayan Minister of Environment) were refused for the conference sessions, whereas RR soy production is known for its damaging social and economic impacts. The reason given was that this conference ‘should not be focused on soy’. However, one session at this conference is precisely about the ‘Round Table on Responsible Soy’ (RTRS), with speakers from Syngenta and Grupo DAP, a controversial Paraguayan soy producing and investment company.

The RTRS has been criticised and rejected by a great number of organisations. Not one South American small farmers’ or indigenous peoples’ organisation is a member of the RTRS. Nevertheless, the RTRS is supported by the Dutch government as a way to avoid taking responsibility for the damage done by the massive Dutch GM soy imports. Over 10.500 people have sent a message to Ministers Verburg and Koenders asking them to withdraw the Dutch government’s financial support for the RTRS. At this conference, these signatures will be handed over to Minister Verburg.

For more information:
www.toxicsoy.org / www.gifsoja.nl
lasojamata.iskra.net / www.aseed.net


A report on the reality behind the ‘responsible soy’ company Grupo DAP will be available at this conference. Local communities in San Pedro, Paraguay, have protested against Grupo DAP’s arrival in their area, starting large scale soy plantations. A few years later, complaints about the impact of DAP’s soy fields for the community have not silenced. The report can also be downloaded from: www.corporateeurope.org

A new report will be launched soon about another soy expansion region, North West Argentina. There, both indigenous and gaucho communities are fighting for their rights to land and against the rampant deforestation in the area. In North West Argentina, where the soy sector is particularly associated with violence, repression and corruption, the RTRS has been particularly active doing outreach, among those soy producers. This report will be available on: www.chaya.org.ar
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Support Greek farmers' lawsuit against Syngenta

On Thursday 26th of October 2006, the first of a series of lawsuits of the General Confederation of Greek Agrarian Association (GESASE) against companies that unlawfully supplied GM contaminated seeds to Greek farmers, will take place at Athens Court of Justice. The State Inspection Authorities found  Syngenta and Pioneer to supply such seeds about two years ago. It is of critical importance that such unlawful practices are condemned by the Court and that firms who undermine the interests of the farmers and the rural world, compensate for the damages that they have caused.
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