Together with 37 organisations from across Europe, CEO launched the #StopGlyphosate European Citizens Initiative (ECI) this morning. We're jointly trying to collect signatures from at least one million EU citizens before the summer - an ambitious but urgent goal we are hoping to reach as the European Commission and national governments will likely take their final decision on glyphosate then. The petition is hosted by WeMove.eu.
Guardian-artikel från nov 2014 om undersökningsprojektet Focus GMO
Thousands of rats will be fed Monsanto maize diets in a $23m, three-year ‘Factor GMO’ study into long-term health effects of GM food and associated pesticides
The organisers of the Factor GMO [genetically modified organism] study, announced in London on Tuesday and due to start fully next year, say it will investigate the long-term health effects of a diet of a GM maize developed by US seed and chemical company Monsanto.
“It will answer the question: is this GM food, and associated pesticide, safe for human health?” said Elena Sharoykina, a campaigner and co-founder of the Russian national association for genetic safety (Nags), the co-ordinator of the experiment.
The Angry Mermaid Award has been set up to recognise the perverse role of corporate lobbyists, and highlight those business groups and companies that have made the greatest effort to sabotage the climate talks, and other climate measures, while promoting,
Monsanton porsaspatenttihakemus jätettiin Maailman henkisen omaisuuden järjestölle WIPO:lle Genevessä helmikuussa 2006. Yritys hakee patenttioikeuksia porsaankasvatukselle yli 160 maassa. Jos patentti myönnetään, Monsanto voi jatkossa estää kasvattajia j
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 9, 2011 (IPS) - Argentina's soy boom has been a major source of foreign exchange. But the other side of the coin is the toxic effects among the rural population, from spraying agrochemicals.
"Ukraine is also one of the 10 pilot countries in the World Bank's new Benchmarking the Business of Agriculture (BBA) project," Mittal told IPS, referring to a brand new initiative, still in the development stage, which is connected to the Bank's controversial Doing Business rankings. But the OI [Oakland Institute] report's co-author Frédéric Mousseau says initiatives like the BBA and others exist primarily to pry open Ukraine's doors, hitherto sealed by its socialist traditions, to foreign capital.
by Fritz Kreiss: "...Monsanto is actually patenting death...enormous power to determine who is allowed to eat... Monsanto wants the right to exert perpetual control, and with it the power to make decisions about who/what lives or dies. "
by Veera Juvonen Veera on digiaktivisti, konseptisuunnittelija ja Greenpeacen verkkoviestinnän veturi. Veera ottaa kantaa ajankohtaisiin ruokakysymyksiin ja pelastaa maailmaa pikseli kerrallaan. March Against Monsanto May, 25, Everywhere Helsingissä, Turussa ja Oulussa järjestään mielenilmaisuna marssi kemikaaliyhtiö Monsantoa vastaan lauantaina 25. toukokuuta. Samaan aikaan ympäri maailmaa kolmessakymmenessä maassa yli 250 paikkakunnalla tehdään samoin. Monsanto on ajankohtainen Suomessa, sillä suuret suomalaiset rehunvalmistajat ovat kääntäneet kelkkansa ja suhtautuvat geenimanipuloituun rehuun sallivammin. Suomen Rehun Turun tehtaalla alettiin vastikään käsitellä Monsanton GMO-soijaa. Samanaikaisesti elintarvikeyhtiöt tekevät linjanvetoa – siirtyäkö muunneltuun rehuun elintarvikeketjussa, vai julistautuako geenimuuntelusta vapaaksi elintarviketuottajaksi. "Monsanton GMO-siemenet ovat haitallisia ympäristölle. Tutkijat ovat esimerkiksi yhdistäneet niihin maailman mehiläiskannan romahtamisen."
The naturally occurring gene has been patented by Myriad Genetics and gives them the sole right to test for the gene. Jolie can afford the expensive test, and the resulting surgeries, but most women cannot.
A wide range of activists, both African and European, is furious about the New Alliance(6). But the ONE campaign, co-founded by Bono, stepped up to defend it(7). The article it wrote last week was remarkable in several respects: in its elision of the interests of African leaders and those of their people, in its exaggeration of the role of small African companies, but above all in failing even to mention the injustice at the heart of the New Alliance – its promotion of a new wave of land grabbing.
Source: Süddeutsche Zeitung By MARIANNE FALCK, HANS LEYENDECKER AND SILVIA LIEBRICH Translated by New Europe Translations for Sustainable Pulse (Original in German)