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  • WTO rules put free-trade of agribusiness above national health concerns (GlobalResearch.ca)
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WTO, GMO and Total Spectrum Dominance
    by F. William Engdahl
    March 29, 2006
    In February, a private organization with unique powers over world industry, trade and agriculture, issued a Preliminary Draft Ruling on a three-year-old case. The case was brought by the Bush Administration in May 2003 against European Union rules hindering the spread of genetically-engineered plants and foods. The WTO ruling, which is to be final in December, will have more influence over life and death on this (…)

  • Terminator defeated Terminator Rejection - A Victory for the People by Greenpeace and Via Campesina
    26 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    CURITIBA, Brazil - March 24 - A broad coalition of peasant farmers, indigenous peoples and civil society today celebrated the firm rejection of efforts to undermine the global moratorium on Terminator technologies - genetically engineered sterile seeds - at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Curitiba, Brazil.
    "This is a momentous day for the 1.4 billion poor people worldwide, who depend on farmer saved seeds," said Francisca Rodriguez of Via Campesina, a world wide movement (…)

  • Biotech Foods: International Safety Laws Agreed by Friends of the Earth International March 18
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    CURITIBA (BRAZIL), 17 March 2006 - United Nations talks on the global trade in genetically modified (GM) foods and crops ended here today with an agreement on the labelling of GM grains traded worldwide.
    Friends of the Earth welcomed the agreement as a "small step forward" but attacked the biotech industry and the trade interests of a few countries for blocking progress towards better protection for developing countries and the environment.
    The biotech industry consistently opposed clear (…)

  • Experimental weather modification bill - fast tracking - for passage in US Senate ...
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rosalind Peterson
    March 11, 2006 Venus Project
    U.S. Senate Bill 517 and U.S. House Bill 2995, a bill that would allow experimental weather modification by artificial methods and implement a national weather modification policy, does not include agriculture or public oversight, is on the “fast track” to be passed early in 2006.
    This bill is designed to implement experimental weather modification. The appointed Board of Directors established by this bill does not include any (…)

  • Food Uniformity Bill Passes in the House
    9 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Food Uniformity Bill Passes in the House Despite Widespread Opposition Members of the House put special interests before public interest Despite opposition from many environmental, health and consumer rights organizations, 39 state Attorneys General, 7 state Governors, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, the Association of Food and Drug Officials, the National Conference of State Legislators and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, the United States House of (…)

  • Rolling their eyes
    16 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Haaretz Editorial
    It is difficult to know what eventually led the government to discuss the chopping down of Palestinian olive trees by thugs from the settlements. Perhaps it was the media coverage, or the change of guard at the head of the cabinet table. Or maybe it was the complaints filed by the Yesh Din human rights organization on behalf of the Palestinian victims that ended up on the table of the attorney general, or the fact that the chopping down of olive trees - as opposed to (…)

  • EVO MORALES: WHITE MAN, YOU ONLY HAVE YOURSELVES TO BLAME
    10 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This month, cocaleros (coca farmers) champion Evo Morales was victorious in Bolivia’s presidential elections, with 51% of the vote. His triumph at the polls is a direct challenge to the US’s anti-narcotics campaign in the region, with Morales defending the production of the coca leaf - which, when refined, produces cocaine.
    Cocaine: the white man’s invention
    The coca leaf is traditionally chewed by the indigenous people of Bolivia to alleviate altitude sickness, a practice that predated (…)

  • W. Bank villagers: 120 olive trees destroyed
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amira Hass
    Some 120 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family were cut down in the southern Hebron Hills, the family said Friday.
    The olive grove is located across from the West Bank village of Tawaneh, and belongs to a family from the village of Yata. Children from Tawaneh discovered the mutilated trees on Friday morning and informed the landowners, the Amur family. Police and Civil Administration officials arrived at the scene, as did the security coordinator for settlements in (…)

  • Causachun coca! Wañuchun yanquis!
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thanks to Pachamama, Mother Earth, thanks for the Coca Plant.
    We, Aymaras and Quechuas, original nations of the Andes, have survived the onslaught of the white man until today thanks to our coca leaf. From the moment the white man came to our land he has tried to control our leaf for his own enrichment. He has abused it here and now he is abusing it everywhere else. Since it has escaped his control he is intent on destroying it.
    He has labeled our sacred plant a drug, to be prohibited (…)

  • U.S. Farmers Use Pesticide Despite Treaty
    29 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A sign, required by law, warns of a pesticide application of methyl bromide on a field near Watsonville, Calif., Aug. 12, 2005. The pesticide is used to fumigate the soil as preparation for strawberry planting. The U.S. continues to permit the methyl bromide to be used despite signing an international treaty that banned its use by 2005. Its survival demonstrates the difficulty of banishing a chemical that is a powerful toxin but that also helps deliver abundant, pest-free and affordable (…)