Tell Stephane Dion to turn his environmental promises into action.

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Tell Stephane Dion to turn his environmental promises into action.

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BAN TERMINATOR NOW!

 

1.4 billion people around the world depend on farmer-saved seeds for their

survival. The right to save seeds is a crucial part of the human right to food.

 

But this basic right is threatened by Terminator technology which genetically

engineers plants to produce sterile seeds after first harvest and, if

introduced, would force farmers to purchase seeds every year from transnational

seed

corporations.

 

If allowed to proceed, Terminator technology, would transfer control over the

world’s seed supply from the hands of farmers to the monopoly control of

large corporations. It would also threaten the biodiversity of agriculture and

the

health of the planet’s food supply.

 “Terminator is a direct assault on farmers and indigenous cultures and on

food sovereignty. It threatens the well-being of all rural people, primarily the

very poorest,†says Rafael Alegría of Via Campesina, an organization

representing over 10 million peasant farmers worldwide.

 

“ Preventing farmers from re-planting saved seed will increase economic

injustice all over the world,†says the World Council of Churches, which has

called

for action to stop Terminator technology.

 

Tell the Canadian Government to Ban Terminator Technology

 

Recognizing its inherent dangers, governments attending meetings of the UN

Convention on Biological Diversity created an international moratorium on

Terminator technology in 2000.

 

The Canadian Government, however, with the help of Australia, New Zealand and

some major biotechnology companies, tried in February 2005 and again in

January 2006 to overthrow the moratorium.

 

We want our Government to put the well-being of people and the environment

ahead of corporate profits.

 

Tell our Government to support the ban on Terminator technology.

 

Click here to send a letter to Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl, Prime

Minster Harper, the Opposition Agriculture Critics and your MP

 

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