Please join Friends of the Earth’s Emerging Technologies project in sending an email to Fiona Nash asking her to regulate GMOs properly.
https://friendsoftheearthmelbourne.good.do/whatpartofnogmosdonttheyunderstand/tellfionanashtoreinintheregulators/
More information here http://emergingtech.foe.org.au/modifying-the-truth/
Friends of the Earth are a member group of the GM-Free Australia Alliance.
The GM-Free Australia Alliance (GMFAA) would like to extend you a warm invitation to attend the 9th Annual GMFAA Conference in Melbourne, 2nd-4th April.
As global GMO and chemical conglomerates consolidate their grip on farming and seed ownership, our networks are gaining strength to combat their hold over the future of food on our planet.
Seed saving, community gardening, food hubs, regenerative agriculture and indigenous food movements are growing and gaining popularity.
That is why strategic work like ours is so important.
The Alliance brings together campaigners from Foodwatch WA, SAGFIN, Gene Ethics, MADGE and Friends of the Earth with activists based in the Pacific and New Zealand.
Topics covered will include:
· Creating glyphosate-free spaces.
· GM-free food labelling, the GM-Free Shopping list and using social media to promote GM-Free food choices.
GM-free zones and the right to farm GM-Free.
· World-wide threat : New GM techniques are escaping regulation.
· How the industrial food system drives climate change.
· Solidarity with indigenous groups – protecting our region, seeds and food production from climate disasters and biopiracy.
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10am to 12.00 on Sunday 3rd April at the Green Building
Networking Cool Food Futures – an invitation to join forces – with Nick Rose, Sustain and Fran Murrell, MADGE
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Social night :
7pm on Monday 4th April at Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith St, Collingwood.
Snacks, skits and GM-free songs. GMFAA fundraiser.
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The GMFAA Conference will be held at the Green Building, 60 Leicester St, Carlton, Melbourne, Australia.
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Please RSVP and we will send the full Agenda for the weekend.
More info : GMFAA Co-ordinator Jessica Harrison 0407307231
info@gmfreeaustralia.org.au
GM-Free Australia Alliance Inc www.gmfreeaustralia.org.au
The SA government is asking for input on how to grow SA’s reputation for quality food and wine.
Let them know that two good ways are to keep the ban on a nuclear waste dump, extend the moratorium on GM crops permanently and ban GM trial crops.
Call or make an online comment – details below.
The third GOVchat provides you with an opportunity to let us know what your ideas are on enhancing South Australia’s reputation as the nation’s food and wine state.
This GOVchat provides you with direct access to these decision makers:
On 25 November 2015, between 5:30pm and 7:30pm we want to hear from you!
Call 1800 216 506 to share your ideas – call up at a time that suits you within the two hour window.
If you can’t call us on the night, you can add your ideas to the online discussion.
March Against Monsanto Adelaide and Fair Food Adelaide presents
“Ask Jamie Oliver to be a Bee/GMO-Free Advocate Lunch”
12pm Saturday 31st October
Jamie’s Adelaide Restaurant
2 King William St Adelaide
Celebrating Fair Food Week – Lunch at Jamie Oliver’s restaurant to plan and sign a letter asking him to be an Advocate for Bees and a GMO-free world. We will tick off a list how much of our food depends upon bees to send to him. We will ask staff questions about GMOS and their menu, we have been told by Jamie’s HQ they don’t use GMOs but do they really know?
Menu here: http://
Facebook event page to RSVP – limited spaces
Contact robyn.wood@foe.org.au for more information
Fair Food Adelaide’s Kim Hill is delivering two workshops at next week’s Students of Sustainability conference at Flinders University – “The End of Agriculture” on Thursday 10th and “Edible Weed Walk” on Satuday 11th. Clean Future Collective’s Dr Philip Smith is delivering a nuke free workshop on Friday with FoE Australia’s Dr Jim Green.
Come and say hi at our FOE stall on Saturday – incorporating Fair Food Adelaide, March Against Monsanto and the Clean Futures Collective with a focus on the nuclear royal commission.
Details here.
