July 29, 2010
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Briefing Notes
Flax contamination:
CBAN Briefing to Members of Parliament: Genetically Modified Flax Contamination: Canadian Farmers Loose their European Market October 29, 2009.
Trade:
CBAN Briefing: WTO dispute over Genetically Modified Organisms: Canada, Argentina, US vs European Union July 20, 2009.
Click here for related information and news on trade and GMOs.
Regulation:
CBAN Briefing Note #1 to the Yukon Legislative Assembly: Genetically Engineered Crops: The Inadequacies and Limitations of Federal Regulation June 28, 2009.
Environmental Risk:
CBAN Briefing Note #2 to the Yukon Legislative Assembly: Genetically Engineered Crops: Irreversible harm to natural ecosystems June 28, 2009
Full CBAN Briefing Package to the Yukon Legislative Assembly (17 pages)
Click here for more information on the call for a 10-year moratorium on GE in the Yukon.
Consumer Guides
Why Your Food Choices Matter: A Guide to Local and Ecologically Grown Food (Ontario) January 2009. Click here to view this great brochure! Order copies of this colouful brochure for Ontario, includes the basics about local, organic, ecological as well as information about what genetically engineered crops and foods are on the market. Click here for more information and references. If you live outside Ontario, order your copies now of the Fall national edition!
GE crops grown in Canada and GE foods imported to Canada.CBAN, January 2010
Films
The World According to Monsanto
Monsanto is the world leader in genetically engineered seeds, as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. This century-old empire has created some of the most toxic products ever sold, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the herbicide Agent Orange. Based on a painstaking investigation, The World According to Monsanto puts together the pieces of the company’s history, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and numerous first-hand accounts.
The World According to Monsanto filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin with CBAN Coordinator, Lucy Sharratt in Ottawa.
Misleading reports, collusion, pressure tactics and attempts at corruption: the history of Monsanto is filled with disturbing episodes. Behind its clean, green image, Monsanto is tightening its grasp on the world seed market, striving for market supremacy to the detriment of food security and the global environment.
CBAN rating: CBAN gives 5 stars to a great film that documents our victories against Monsanto and the most pressing current issues. The film includes footage from the Canadian fight against Bovine Growth Hormone and ends with the dramatic situation faced by small farmers in Paraguay who are surrounded by expanding monoculture of GE soy and its herbicide Roundup. How can these farmers protect their families from pesticide poisoning? See La Soja Mata/Soy Kills or join with CBAN to support these farmers and to follow the issues raised in the film. Contact CBAN to buy the film. Click here to see more information about Monsanto.
Listservs
Click here to sign up to the CBAN News and Action Listserv - receive the latest information and action alerts - low traffic list to keep you informed.
Maps
The Seed Map is a teaching and advocacy tool designed to show the state of global agro-biodiversity today. Anyone can use it – teachers, gardeners, policy makers, and more! The map identifies key threats to the world’s seed and biodiversity systems, and highlights regions where peoples’ movements are fighting to protect biodiversity – and winning!
Pamphlets and Factsheets
New! For Farmers in Ontario: Farm Updates 2010: A New Decade of Genetically Modified Crops
Why Your Food Choices Matter: A Guide to Local and Ecologically Grown Food (Ontario). Click here to view this great brochure!Order copies of this colouful brochure for Ontario, includes the basics about local, organic, ecological as well as information about what genetically engineered crops and foods are on the market. If you live outside Ontario, you can donate today to help us produce this pamphlet for everyone!
Farm Update: Genetically Modified Crops in Ontario January 2008 - Still up to date background document on GM crops for farmers. A joint project of CBAN, the National Farmers Union Ontario and the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario.
SmartStax information and action flyer, January 2010. An Analysis of the Dangerous Consequences of Stacked GE Traits and the Deliberate Failings of Canadian Regulation.
List of the 12 Genetically Engineered Crops and Food Approved in Canada: What are Canadian Farmers Growing? January 2010. (1 page pdf)
Liste des 12 cultures génétiquement modifiées (GM) approuvées pour dissémination – mais lesquelles sont déjà offertes aux agriculteurs canadiens? Janvier 2010
GE-Free Popcorn Packet
Fun and informative! for your local film festivals and events!
Click here to download a GE-Free Popcorn Packet for you to use at your local events - created by GE Free BC
Click here to see the paper-folding diagram
You can watch Julie Emerson fold the packet in her great 3-minute "how-to" video posted on You Tube - search for "Popcorn Packet"
"I designed the GE Free Popcorn Packet to give out not only some important info about genetic engineering of corn and other seeds but also some free organic popcorn. The GE Free Seeds Free Packet, containing beans to plant, was a success for several years, and with the many upcoming Seedy Saturdays, farmers’ markets, and screenings of the film King Corn, I thought it was time for a fresh take on it."
The text is printed on the paper exactly as it is to be folded, and has contact info for GE Free BC. If you live outside BC, feel free to modify it with your own seed and contact information by actual cutting-and-pasting. The packet is an easy to fold origami envelope, based on a Seeds of Diversity design.
Workshops and Presentations
The Dig In! youth-led project built a participatory workshop on food sovereignty with and for people in communities across the country. The workshop activities are for everyone, from young farmers to urban youth to members of the general public.
Check out the Dig In! "Tool Kit" of workshop activities here!
Use the workshop to find out what “food sovereignty” means for us in Canada and around the world.
What do we mean by “food sovereignty”?: Basically, putting control of food back in the hands and bellies of people.
Food Sovereignty is a tool to help us understand the world around us, how food is produced, and how we can make positive change together.
Dig In! was a collaborative project of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Check Your Head, and the National Farmers Union Youth Dig In! was supported by a grant from the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation.
The project has concluded but the workshop lives on! Contact us for information.
