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zaterdag 25 april 2009
Petitie Gifsoja
Oproep aan het bestuur van Solidaridad en het Wereld Natuur Fonds.
Als lid van de Ronde Tafel voor Verantwoorde Soja (RTRS) wil uw organisatie instemmen met een 'verantwoord' label voor genetisch gemanipuleerde gifsoja. Daar maak ik ernstig bezwaar tegen.
De steeds verder oprukkende teelt van RoundupReady soja veroorzaakt in Zuid-Amerika enorme maatschappelijke en milieuproblemen. De sojamonocultuur verandert natuur en kleinschalige landbouw in een groene woestenij. Het hoge pesticidengebruik vergiftigt de leefomgeving van de lokale bevolking. Het verergert de landconflicten en vergroot de tegenstellingen tussen arm en rijk.
De Ronde Tafel legitimeert de verdere uitbreiding van de sojateelt. Boerenorganisaties en NGO's in Zuid-Amerika en daarbuiten hebben herhaaldelijk geprotesteerd tegen de misvatting dat deze soja 'verantwoord' kan zijn. Daarnaast ondermijnt de Ronde Tafel labels voor echt duurzame - lokale en biologische - producten.
Solidaridad en het Wereld Natuur Fonds spelen een trekkersrol binnen deze Ronde Tafel. Met name door uw steun krijgt gentech gifsoja binnenkort het etiket 'verantwoord'. Ik verzoek u dan ook met klem om terug te keren op uw standpunt. Kom op voor de kleine boeren en de natuur en stap uit deze Ronde Tafel.
Lees verder en teken de petitie
vrijdag 17 april 2009
Onderzoekers slaan alarm over glyfosaat in sojateelt
Lees verder bij MO
dinsdag 14 april 2009
Duitsland weert genetisch gemanipuleerde maïs
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Mooi!!!
donderdag 12 maart 2009
The Multiple Ways Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach
Not so simple. Where are farmers supposed to get normal seed these days? How are they supposed to avoid contamination of their fields from GM-crops? How are they supposed to stop Monsanto detectives from trespassing or Monsanto from using helicopters to fly over spying on them?
Monsanto contaminates the fields, trespasses onto the land taking samples and if they find any GMO plants growing there (or say they have), they then sue, saying they own the crop. It’s a way to make money since farmers can’t fight back and court and they settle because they have no choice.
And they have done and are doing a bucket load of things to keep farmers and everyone else from having any access at all to buying, collecting, and saving of NORMAL seeds.
Lees verder bij Surviving The Middle Class Crash
woensdag 28 januari 2009
Imkers moeten wijken voor Monsanto
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dinsdag 23 december 2008
dinsdag 16 december 2008
Nieuwe "ziekte" bevat kenmerken GM-voeding
Just in case you thought it was fine to eat Genetically Modified foods (better identified as “FrankenFoods”), along comes a study which makes it clear that you are eating this make believe non-food at your own peril and, worse yet, you are feeding it to your kids at their peril as well. It is important to note that Codex Alimentarius, which sets standards for the international trade of food, permits genetically modified foods and makes no effort to limit, control or eliminate them. In fact, the US has been trying for years to prevent the labeling of GM foods and seed in international trade to emulate its domestic policy which prohibits any label indication that foods contain GM ingredients, as 75-80% of all foods sold in the US do.
Now it appears that the increasingly prevalent nightmare of a disease called “Morgellon’s Disease” may be a result of GM crops and food.
zondag 23 november 2008
Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply
Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies.
The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with poor states producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people.
Lees verder in The Guardian
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zondag 16 november 2008
Europarlement luidt noodklok over bijensterfte
Lees verder bij NRC
zondag 26 oktober 2008
Europe's secret plan to boost GM crop production
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zondag 19 oktober 2008
woensdag 15 oktober 2008
Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia
by Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D.
October 15, 2008
One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under "freedom" and "democracy," would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal.
But first, it is important to set the context. Most people have never heard of the infamous "100 Orders," but they help explain why the majority of Iraqis remain opposed to foreign occupation. The 100 Orders allow multinational corporations to basically privatize an entire nation, and this degree of foreign and private control has not been witnessed since the days of the British East India Company and its extraterritoriality treaties.
Lees verder op Uruknet
dinsdag 8 juli 2008
Handvol multinationals controleert wereldvoedselhandel
Cijfers tonen aan dat echt vrije handel een utopie is. In diverse publicaties op internet tonen cijfers aan dat een handvol, voornamelijk Amerikaanse ’super multinationals’ hard op weg is de gehele wereldvoedselvoorziening, van zaad tot supermarkt, onder controle te krijgen.
Uitmuntend artikel op Sync
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maandag 14 april 2008
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
Full article Vanity Fair
See also here
woensdag 9 april 2008
Nederlaag Monsanto in Raalte
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donderdag 27 maart 2008
Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America
The genetic modification of the plant leads to the concurrent genetic modification of the flower pollen. When the flower pollen becomes genetically modified or sterile, the bees will potentially go malnourished and die of illness due to the lack of nutrients and the interruption of the digestive capacity of what they feed on through the summer and over the winter hibernation process.
I will argue that the media reports tend to distract public opinion from the true cause which underlies the destruction of bee colonies. As such, outlined are four major arguments which the biotech conglomerates (which produce and market GMO seeds) have used to mislead the public regarding the demise of the bees.
dinsdag 12 februari 2008
Science-Fiction mais bedreiging voor Raalte
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zondag 23 september 2007
US Attorney General orders Monsanto to reveal secrets
In Germany, Monsanto had suppressed the evidence of serious damage to the liver and kidneys of rats in their own GM MON863 maize trials until ordered to release this evidence by a German Court.
Full story