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SA GM-free Election Forum — Mon 12 Feb

February 9, 2018

Bob Phelps writes:
Hello all SA GM-free supporters:
Please come to hear your politicians speak and answer your questions on GM-free before the election. 
Please also share this message with your family and friends. We really need a full house!!
   Candidates pitch their policies on GM-free SA and GM generally.
        You quiz them on the actions their Parties will take after the election.

Where:    Carl Linger Hall
Level 1, The German Club

223 Flinders Street, Adelaide, SA 5000

When:   6.45pm for a 7pm start on Monday February 12, 2018
How:    7 pm  The moderator introduces the evening.
7.10   Each candidate has 10 minutes to explain policy on SA GM-free.

7.50   Audience and moderator Q&A.

8.45   Summations, closing remarks and thanks.

Speakers:
Ag Minister Leon Bignell (ALP),
David Ridgway (Libs),
Mark Parnell (Greens),
Nick Xenophon (SA Best).

Make your free bookings here to secure a seat:

Adelaide FoE Notes, Food

Civil society rejects GMOs at Food and Agriculture Organization meeting

October 20, 2017

Asian_rice_farmer.jpegCivil society representatives firmly rejected genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as a means of addressing world food security at a recent Food and Agriculture Organization meeting in Malaysia. The event was funded by the pro-GM US, Canadian and Australian Governments.

Civil society representatives from the Global South rejected the premise of the event that improved access to agricultural biotechnologies are needed to help defeat hunger, malnutrition and poverty in the Asia-Pacific region.

The focus of the discussion was supposed to be on sustainable food systems for small farmers – not on increasing yields to generate more money from small pieces of land. However, the majority of the supposed ‘solutions’ presented at the meeting were GMOs – including many new GM techniques still at proof of concept stage that have not been subject to any kind of safety assessment.

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Don’t let Monsanto get their way!

August 21, 2017

Don’t let Monsanto get their way!

It’s been over 20 years since the introduction of the first GM crops to Australia and the majority of our food remains GM free.

However, the GM crop industry has a plan. Aided and abetted by the Federal Government they have four key objectives this year:

  • Ensure that new GM techniques such as CRISPR are not regulated as GMOs – so they can use them in our food with no safety testing and no labelling.
  • Remove the ability of states to introduce GM crop bans – so they can introduce GM wheat unobstructed.
  • Remove GM labelling so they can sneak GMOs into our food without us knowing – even more than they already do.
  • Allow GM contamination in organics – so we are really unable to avoid GMOs in food.

In the past couple of years a Government Inquiry into Agricultural Innovation and a Productivity Commission report into the Regulation of Australian Agriculture made precisely these recommendations.

Adelaide FoE Notes, Food

Movie & dinner night: “Dirt” the movie 2nd Feb

January 18, 2017

Adelaide Sustainability Centre invites you to a free movie night at the Joinery with a shared community dinner. This will be of particular interest to Fair Food Adelaide folk.

Film Night & Shared Community Dinner

DIRT! The Movie–narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis–brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil.

But more than the film and the lessons that it teaches, DIRT! The Movie is a call to action. “When humans arrived 2 million years ago, everything changed for dirt. And from that moment on, the fate of dirt and humans has been intimately linked.”

How can you affect that relationship for the better?

Entry by Donation
6pm Shared Community Dinner, bring a plate of food to share
7pm Film Screening

The Adelaide Sustainability Centre is supported by the Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board and Conservation Council of South Australia.

Facebook event page

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SA drink container deposits turn 40!

January 2, 2017

Friends of the Earth’s campaigning was instrumental in getting legislation introduced in 1977 to require a refund of the deposit on the price of drink cans and bottles.

Campaigners marched from Adelaide Uni to the steps of Parliament House to roll thousands of cans down the steps.

Refer to the following article.

From the article:

Sustainability Minister Ian Hunter said “About 580 million drink containers are recycled in the state every year.”

“The Government said the state’s waste and recycling sector employs almost 5,000 South Australians”

Congratulations to members of Friends of the Earth active during the 70s. We await the rest of Australia and the world to catch on.

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