FDA Considers Approval of GE Salmon--the First GE Food Animal--Yet Fails to Inform the Public of Environmental and Economic Risks. Joint Press Statement Washington, DC August 27, 2010 – A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare and environmental groups, along with...

Canadian groups support Haitian rejection of Monsanto’s seed donation Thursday, June 3, 2010 - Today farmer and environmental groups from across Canada stated their support for tomorrow’s farmer march in Haiti, organized to protest a donation of 475 tons of hybrid...

Regroupement québécois contre les OGM (RQcOGM) Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) Ottawa, Montréal et Québec, April 30, 2010 – A large coalition of consumer, farmer and environmental groups are calling on the Federal Minister of Health, Leona Aglukkaq, to...

Groups applaud MPs for moving Bill C-474 to Committee for study Ottawa. Thursday, April 15, 2010 – Last night, Parliament passed Private Members Bill C-474 through second reading, in spite of intense pressure from the biotech industry. The Bill, which would require...

Ottawa. Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - Tomorrow, Parliament will debate Private Members Bill C-474 to require that “an analysis of potential harm to export markets be conducted before the sale of any new genetically engineered seed is permitted.” “The Bill is necessary to...

Halifax, Thursday, March 11, 2010 – The corporate sponsor of this week’s Brier, biotechnology company Monsanto, is under intense scrutiny from environmental, consumer and farmer groups in Nova Scotia, and across Canada and the world. “Many curling fans might be...

Canadian Farm and Consumer Groups Urge U.S. Department of Agriculture to Stop Monsanto’s New GE Seed Saskatoon, March 3, 2010 - Today a number of prominent Canadian farmer and consumer groups urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) not to permit the...

February 9, 2010. Ottawa, Montreal, Washington, Tokyo, Sydney: 233 consumer and farmer groups in 26 countries have joined the “Definitive Global Rejection of GM Wheat” statement to stop the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) wheat and remind the...

Challenge approval of new eight-trait GM “SmartStax” corn Friday, October 16, 2009 - Today Canadians opposing Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) crops will join the first “International Day of Action Against Multinational Corporations” that has been initiated by the...

But Canadian farmers still have no answers Ottawa, Monday, October 5, 2009 – 28 countries, including more European countries as well as Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Thailand, have now been affected by contamination from genetically modified (GM) flax in Canadian exports...