Category Archive for “Food Sovereignty”
1 - 10 of 16 posts

FAO y transgénicos: apuesta equivocada

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Silvia Ribeiro
Es grave e irresponsable el intento de FAO de legitimar los transgénicos como solución al hambre y la crisis climática en el tercer mundo, cuya expresión más reciente es la conferencia Biotecnologías agrícolas en los países en desarrollo (Guadalajara, México, 14 de marzo). Frente a las críticas que van en aumento, los funcionarios de [...]

Read the rest of this entry

Leaving for Copenhagen – yikes

Monday, December 7th, 2009

It is the mad dash for Copenhagen.
I am leaving Montreal for the international summit tomorrow although the conference actually got underway today.  In between urgent emails over the weekend I found the time to take my ten year old daughter and two of her friends to see A Christmas Carol, a Geordie Theatre production of [...]

Read the rest of this entry

Alerta médica: los transgénicos amenazan la salud

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Silvia Ribeiro*
La Academia Americana de Medicina Ambiental (AAEM, por sus siglas en inglés), hizo pública en mayo 2009 su posición sobre los alimentos transgénicos. “Por la salud y la seguridad de los consumidores” llaman a establecer urgentemente una “moratoria a los alimentos genéticamente modificados y la implementación inmediata de pruebas independientes y de largo plazo [...]

Read the rest of this entry

La contaminación transgénica como negocio

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Silvia Ribeiro*
El 6 de marzo, el gobierno mexicano anunció que consideraba terminado (en todos los sentidos de la palabra) el marco legal de bioseguridad en México, abriendo las puertas a la experimentación con maíz transgénico. Un delito histórico, que marca la decisión del gobierno de enajenar y colocar en alto riesgo el patrimonio genético alimentario [...]

Read the rest of this entry

Patentando calabazas

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Silvia Ribeiro
Una empresa semillera estadunidense presentó una solicitud para patentar las calabazas. ¿Suena a cuento? Lamentablemente, si la Oficina de Marcas y Patentes de Estados Unidos (USPTO) concede la patente US20080301830, la realidad habrá superado nuevamente a la ficción.
La empresa Siegers Seed Company, con base en Michigan, Estados Unidos, pretende lograr el monopolio sobre todas [...]

Read the rest of this entry

TechReckoning: Flask-Grown Flesh

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Written for The Ecologist – 20/07/2008
If radical vegan Ingrid Newkirk has her way, the nouvelle cuisine on vegetarian menus in five years time may be a big juicy steak.
Newkirk, founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has offered a $1 million prize to whoever can scale-up stem cell techniques [...]

Read the rest of this entry

Pat Mooney’s OP-ED in Toronto Star

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Biofuels fuel global food crisis
Toronto Star/star.com July 08, 2008
PAT MOONEY
As G8 leaders meet this week in Japan, their ears will still be ringing from the bombshell dropped last week in a leaked World Bank report declaring that biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 per cent, far higher than previously estimated.
The food crisis [...]

Read the rest of this entry

Pat Mooney’s Testimony on Biofuels to Canadian Senate

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Testimony of Pat Mooney
Executive Director of ETC Group
Before the Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources-regarding Bill C-33 (the “Biofuels Bill”)
Senate of Canada
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Thank you. I will begin by confessing that I am not an expert on biofuels. I feel as though my life has been hijacked by biofuels over [...]

Read the rest of this entry

Jolly gene giant-a book review of Claire Hope Cummings’ “Uncertain Peril”

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Review by Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group.
—–
In October 1996, a spokesman for Monsanto told Farm Journal why his company was buying up seed companies left and right: “What you’re seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it’s really a consolidation of the entire food chain.”
Today, Monsanto is the world’s largest seed [...]

Read the rest of this entry

Industry Tries to Repeal Brazil’s National Ban on Terminator

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

In the past, several multinational seed corporations have publicly pledged not to commercialize Terminator seeds – but, not surprisingly, there is intense industry pressure to overturn Brazil’s national law prohibiting suicide seeds. Bill number 268 (2007) in the Brazilian Congress proposes to:
* allow research, registration and patenting of sterile seed technology;
* allow commercialization of Terminator [...]

Read the rest of this entry