GM Wheat Signatories Jan 2010 - Canadian Biotechnology Action

January 2010
Global Rejection of Genetically Modified Wheat
Summary Statement:
In light of our existing experience with genetic engineering, and recognizing
the global consumer rejection of genetically engineered wheat, we restate
our definitive opposition to GE wheat and our commitment to stopping the
commercialization of GE traits in our wheat crops.
Signed by 177 groups in 23 countries:
1) Argentina
1. Red de Acción en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas de América Latina RAPAL,
Argentina
2) Australia
2. Bellingen Community Gardens Association, NSW, Australia
3. Biological Farmers of Australia
4. Friends of the Earth Australia
5. GE-free Australia
6. Gene Ethics, Australia
7. GM Free Consumers Network, Western Australia
8. Greenpeace Australia Pacific
9. MADGE, Australia
10. Mount Pleasant Natural Resource Centre Inc., South Australia
11. National Toxics Network, Australia
12. Network of Concerned Farmers, Australia
13. North Shore Climate Action, NSW, Australia
14. Organic Federation of Australia, Australia
15. Permaculture Education Zone (PEZ), South Australia
16. Permaculture Southern Highlands Local Seed Network, NSW
17. Slow Food Australia, Australia
3) Bangladesh
18. Society for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Advancement (SSARA),
Bangladesh
4) Brazil
19. AS-PTA, Brazil
20. Associacao dos Engenhriros Agronomos da Bahia, Brazil
21. Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentavel - Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
22. Centro Ecologico, Brazil
23. Greenpeace Brazil
24. Laboratorio de Traçadores WC Pfeiffer, Brazil
5) Canada
25. L’ ACEF (Association Coopérative d'Économie Familiale) de Québec
26. L'Agora recherches et communications, Québec
27. Avenue Bio de l'Est, St-Mathieu-de-Rioux, Canada
28. L’ avis bio / magazine Bio-bulle, Québec
29. Beyond Factory Farming, Canada
30. Burin Peninsula Environmental Reform Committee, Canada
31. Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Canada
32. Canadian Organic Growers, Canada
33. Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la biologie, la santé, la société et
l'environnement (CINBIOSE), Québec
34. Club Plein-Champs, Québec
35. Club Volksmarche La Foulée, Québec
36. Coalition des citoyens de Mékinac, Trois-Rives, Québec
37. Comité d'environnement Univert du Cégep de Lévis-Lauzon, Québec
38. Coopérative de solidartité d'alimentation saine La Manne, Victoriaville, Québec
39. Eco-Cell at St. John's, Canada
40. Énergie Citoyenne, Québec
41. Équiterre, Canada
42. FEASt (Food Education Action St. John's), NFLD, Canada
43. Food Action Committe, Ecology Action Centre, Halifax
44. Furby Street Urban Farmers, Canada
45. (GRAME) Groupe de recherche appliquée en macroécologie, Québec
46. Greenpeace Canada
47. Guiding Hands Recreation Society, BC
48. Hobrum Team West Coast, BC
49. Les Ensachages Bio-Org, Québec
50. Les Jardins de la Mingaie, Québec
51. Local Organic Fair Trade Co-operative (Cambridge, ON), Canada
52. National Farmers Union, Canada
53. National Farmers Union, Local 1, Ontario, Canada
54. National Union of Public and General Employees, Canada
55. Nature Québec, Canada
56. New Westminster Environmental Partners, BC, Canada
57. OJM (Organisme Jeunéthiquement Modifié), Canada
58. One Straw Society, Canada, www.onestraw.ca
59. Ordre canadien des praticiens de naturopathie et des naturothérapies, Canada
60. Parti vert du Québec, Canada
61. Regroupement des conseils régionaux de l'environnement du Québec, Canada
62. Réseau Québécois contre les OGM, Canada
63. Saskatchewan Network for Alternatives to Pesticides, Canada
64. Saskatchewan Organic Directorate, Canada
65. St. John's United Church, Chesley, Ontario
66. Syndicat Canadien des Télécommunications Transmarines
67. Union Biologique Paysanne, Canada
68. Union Paysanne, Canada
69. Vieux Palais de Justice de L'Assomption, Québec
70. Wascana Federal Green Party Electoral District Association, Regina, SK,
Canada
6) Chile
71. Red de Acción en Plaguicidas-Chile (RAP-Chile)
7) Ecuador
72. RALLT, Ecuador
8) France
73. Les Amis de la Terre-Nord, France
74. association Kaledoïk-decouverte, France
75. Association terre sacrée, France
76. Atelier de La Gaude, France
77. collectif meuh (Mouvement Elémentaire pour l'Unité de l'Homme), France
78. Combat Monsanto, France
79. CRIIGEN Comité de Recherche et d'Information Indépendantes sur le génie
GENétique, France
80. ERABLES 31, (Ensemble pour Représenter l'Agriculture Biologique Locale
Ecologique et Solidaire), France
81. Groupe de Recherche en Agriculture Biologique, France
82. Groupe International d'Etudes Transdisciplinaires (GIET), France
83. L’Institut Français des Huiles Végétales Pures, France
84. Mouvement de Culture Bio-Dynamique, France
85. Nature et Progres, France
86. Operation SRI Madagascar, France
87. RESEDA Réseau Euroméditerranéen Social Ecologique Démocratique et
Altermondialiste, France
88. Syndicat d'Agriculture Bio-Dynamique, Colmar, France
89. Vigilance OGM 81, France
9) Germany
90. Demeter, Germany
10) India
91. Prakruti, Maharahstra, India
92. South Against Genetic Engineering, India
11) Italy
93. VAS – Biodiversità, Italy
12) Japan
94. 23Ku Minami(23 Wards South) Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative, Japan
95. ALTER Japan
96. Anshintabemonokurashi-network Ashinokai, Japan
97. Association of GMO concerns, Chubu-district, Japan
98. Consumers' Cooperative Scoop Osaka, Japan
99. Consumers' Cooperative Union Kirari, Japan
100.
Consumers Union of Japan
101.
Consumers Union Of Japan Kansai group, Japan
102.
Daichi Wo Mamoru Kai (The Association to Preserve the Earth), Japan
103.
Ehime yuuki nousan seikatsu kyodo kumiai, Japan
104.
Food Action 21, Japan
105.
Fukushi Club Coop, Japan
106.
GMO Information Service Japan
107.
Green Co-op Fukuoka Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
108.
Green Co-op Hiroshima Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
109.
Green Co-op Hyogo, Japan
110.
Green Co-op Kagoshima Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
111.
Green Co-op Kumamoto Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
112.
Green Co-op Miyazaki Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
113.
Green Co-op Nagasaki Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
114.
Green Co-op Oita Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
115.
Green Co-op Okayama Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
116.
Green Co-op OsakaConsumers' Cooperation, Japan
117.
Green Co-op Saga Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
118.
Green Co-op Shimane Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
119.
Green Co-op Tottori Consumers' Cooperation, Japan
120.
Green Co-op Yamaguchi, Japan
121.
Japan Organic Agriculture Association, Japan
122.
Kawasaki Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative, Japan
123.
Kenmin Seikatsukyodokumiai Yamayuri, Japan
124.
KitaTokyo (North Tokyo) Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative,
Japan
125.
Kyousei Foods CO., LTD, Japan
126.
NO! GMO Campaign, Japan
127.
Royal Ivy Academy, Japan
128.
Safety Food Network, Japan
129.
Seikatsu Club Aichi Consumers' Co-operative, Japan
130.
Seikatsu Club Consumer Cooperative co-op Yamanashi, Japan
131.
Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Chiba, Japan
132.
Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Hokkaido, Japan
133.
Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Sagami Unit, Japan
134.
Seikatsu Club Consumers’ Co-operative Sagami Saitama, Japan
135.
Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-operative Tochigi, Japan
136.
Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative-Tokyo, Japan
137.
Seikatsu Club Fukushima Consumers' Cooperative, Japan
138.
Shinjo Rice Field Trust, Japan
139.
Shoku to Kankyo no Mirai-net, Japan
140.
Society of St. Columban, Japan
141.
Tama Kita Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative City planning
Committee, Japan
142.
Tama Kita Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative Joint purchase
Committee, Japan
143.
Tama Kita(Tama North) Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative, Japan
144.
Tokyo Seikatsusha Network, Japan
145.
YokohamaKita (Yokohama North) Seikatsu Club Cooperative, Japan
146.
Yotsuba Home Delivery Keiji Co. LTD, Japan
13) Mauritania
147.
ONG AAA ( Association des Amis des Animaux ), Mauritania
14) Mexico
148.
Colectivo Ecologista Jalisco, A.C., Mexico
15) New Zealand
149.
150.
151.
GE Free (NZ) in Food and Environment, New Zealand
Soil & Health Association of New Zealand
Soil to soul, New Zealand
16) Philippines
152.
GMO Free Philippines
17) Poland
153.
Demeter Polska, Poland
18) Puerto Rico
154.
La Hogaza, San Juan, Puerto Rico
19) South Africa
155.
156.
157.
SAFeAGE, South Africa
South Africa Freeze Alliance on Genetic Engineering, South Africa
The Suidpunt Environmental Alliance (SEA), South Africa
20) Spain
158.
159.
160.
Banco de semillas locales y ecológicas l'Almàixera, Tarragona, Spain
Jóvenes Verdes, Spain
RED DE SEMILLAS, Spain
21) Sweden
161.
Hampanätet, Sweden
22) Switzerland
162.
Campagne «Prudence OGM» du Centre pour l'action non-violente
(Cenac) – Suisse
23) USA
163.
164.
165.
166.
167.
168.
Amberwaves, USA
Center for Food Safety, USA
Fresh Air Tourism, USA
Institute for Responsible Technology, USA
Mitchell Farming, Washington, USA
National Family Farm Coalition, USA
169.
Natural Soluitons Foundation, USA
170.
The Oakland Institute, USA
171.
Organic Consumers Association, USA
172.
Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples
(PLANT) , USA
173.
Say No to GMOs! USA
174.
Sierra Club, USA
175.
Washington Biotechnology Action Council, USA
176.
Western Organization of Resource Councils, USA
Global/Regional:
177.
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific
To sign on: www.cban.ca/globalstopGMwheat
For more information:
Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN)
Collaborative Campaigning for Food Sovereignty and Environmental Justice
431 Gilmour Street, Second Floor
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2P 0R5
Phone: 613 241 2267 ext.6
Fax: 613 241 2506
[email protected]
www.cban.ca/wheat