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Supermarkets: don’t buy the ‘responsible’ soy lie, and don’t sell it to us. Visit to AHOLD’s sustainability department in Amsterdam, Feb 9th.

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:03:56 +0100

The 9th of February AHOLD’s Sustainability Department in Amsterdam wil receive special visitors. They will present 26.000 emais, sent by individuels to some 60 CEO’s of supermarkets all over Europe. “Don’t buy the lie of ‘responsible’ toxic RTRS soy and don’t sell is to us”, is their basic demand. AHOLD, Piet Heinkade 167 Amsterdam, 12.30 PM.

EU advisor on food EFSA not independent: explained in 3 min animation

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 21:29:34 +0100

Lobby watchdog CEO has published a new educational tool explaining some of the major problems at EFSA, the agency responsible for scientific advice on food safety to the EU institutions. A 3 minutes animation allows you to find out more how EFSA operates and to what extent this benefits the big food, biotech and pesticides corporations such as Monsanto, Syngenta, Unilever, Nestlé... Are EFSA's experts and management independent from industry? What role does industry play in EFSA food safety tests? Doesn't EFSA look at other, independent research on these products?

You will find the animation here:

http://vimeo.com/33337236

Animal feed factory in Britany France occupied

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:07:13 +0100

An animal feed plant in Saint-Gérard, Morbihan, France was first blocked and later occupied by protestors. The plant was effectively closed for 1,5 days. The protestors from the Voluntary Reapers (Faucheurs Volontaires) oppose the import of GM soy and want products from animals fed with GMO labelled. The 200 employees in the Glon Sanders plant have not been able to go to work. The protestors intend to stay till they get a reaction from the authorities on the GMO imports. The action is supported by Green politicians Joël Labbé, sénateur, and René Louail et Anne-Marie Boudou.

In the afternoon the protesters occupied the plant and hung banners from the roof. They spent the night in the plant. Friday morning the police started evicting the occupants using a court order threatening to fine each occupant with € 1000 for every day. It took them till 11 am to get the 15 persons out that occupied the roof. Nobody was arrested and the action received broad publicity in France. Great action by our courageaous friends!

http://www.infogm.org/spip.php?article4945

http://www.ouest-france.fr/region/bretagne_detail_-Blocus-de-Sanders-des-militants-anti-OGM-dans-les-silos-de-l-entreprise_8619-2012277_actu.Htm\

http://www.liberation.fr/depeches/01012372175-une-centaine-de-faucheurs-volontaires-bloquent-une-usine-glon-sanders

http://www.morbihan.lemensuel.com/nc/actualite/article/2011/11/18/ogm-les-faucheurs-volontaires-deloges-ce-matin-de-glon-sanders-10320.html

Dutch TV item on campaign against ‘responsible’ soy - English subtitles

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:40:11 +0200

Why toxic soy is NOT responsible and why WWF, AHOLD, Unilever etc mislead consumers. The campaign against ‘responsible’ toxic soy in the Netherlands. An 8 minute item on Dutch TV, English subtitled. Gives a very clear insight in the opposing sites of industry - defended by WWF and in this case director Nico Roozen from Solidaridad - and those who want real change, not windowdressing or greenwash.

http://bit.ly/soy-docu

Roundup, the All-round destroyer - article in Süddeutsche Zeitung

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:54:16 +0200

suedddeutsche.de Science [German original: http://bit.ly/SZRoundupRiskGER]

Debate Over Herbicide Risk: The All-round Destroyer
By Hanno Charisius

The popular herbicide Roundup was once regarded as a harmless miracle cure - now it is suspected of causing birth defects in human beings.

People are nervous at the Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (Federal Institute of Risk Assessment) in Berlin. Conversations with journalists are being recorded. People say they want to be sure that they are quoted correctly. After all, the topic is a hot one: In a new report, an independent group of scientists have accused their colleagues from the Institute that for more than a decade they have been covering up the risks associated with Roundup, the world's best-selling weed killer.

read more: SZ_online_Roundup_Risk_2011_09_20_ENG.pdf