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Bite BACK: WTO hands off our food !
George Bush is using the WTO to force-feed you genetically modified food! Sign the Citizens' Objection to the WTO, demanding to dismiss the US complaint.

 

THE WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE
GATHERING on the LARZAC
Against the World Trade Organisation
8 - 10 august 2003

The next meeting of the WTO will be held in Cancun, Mexico, 10 - 14 September 2003. On the agenda : the handover of public services, agricultural trade and natural resources to a handful of multinationals.

www.larzac20003.org

GMO Trade war - who decides what we eat?

The US Government has filed a complaint with the World Trade
Organisation over Europe's policy on genetically modified food.
If it succeeds, the US will force GM foods onto our markets
regardless of the wishes of European consumers.

Bush isn't likely to take notice of us alone - but perhaps
he'll listen to his own people.

Email the US Ambassador in your country now to demand the WTO complaint
is withdrawn:

http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/global_trade/press_for_change/email_us_embassy

Via Campesina
International farmers movement

Call for action for
the 17th of april 2003

International day of farmers' struggle

 

Dear Friend!

Your help is needed

Please use our cyberaction centre support the campaign of Friends
of the Earth Malta starting on 5 march 2003 to save land from developers and have agriculture
not golf.

action alert

Submit your own ideas about the future of organic farming

Until march 16th 2003 the European Commission has launched an Internet consultation process about the future of organic farming. Based on a working document that analyses the possibility of a European action plan for organic food and farming, members of the public have the opportunity to voice their opinions.
click here

 

In defense of raw milk cheese

Don't let sanitation rules kill the production of traditional made cheese

Read more about cheese on the website of Slow Food and support their email action to save the production of raw milk cheese by sending an email to rawmilk@slowfood.com

 

support Jose Bove, write to Chirac!

Februari 2003 Jose Bove has been condemned to 10 months of jail
for non violent direct actions against GMOs. This is an outrageous
sentence that is in need of widespread protest. It should be seen as
a political attempt to scare GMO activists.
Please write to Chirac or send an email to request him to pardon Jose Bove

 

Call on Syngenta to stop the production of paraquat

Send a protest email to the chairman of Syngenta's governing board and demand to stop production and sale of the highly toxic and very harmful herbicide paraquat.

Click here for a protest letter on the Internet pages of the Berne Declaration (Erklärung von Bern).

Click alongside for a protest letter in: Spanish/German/Italian/French

 

Unjust EU rules are wrecking poor farmers' lives in Developing Countries

Change this by taking action now!

Support an email action of Action Aid by sending an email to Franz Fischler, the EU commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, asking him to abolish EU export subsidies and protect the livelihoods of poor farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America