The Oneidas For Democracy - News and Updates

Presentation, on Tuesday March 14th

Do you know what you are eating?
Do you want to completely stop the genetic modification of foods and the corporate patenting of life?

Few People realize how much of the food in the US has been "genetically modified". Over one third of the corn crop and over one half of US soy beans are "GM". America's food supply is being transformed with few Americans knowing about it. Genetic modification of our food may pose serious risks to human health and to the environment, including growth in cancer rates, antibiotic resistant infections, unpredictable allergies, loss of nutritional value of foods, herbicide resistant weeds, pesticide resistant pests and wildlife threats.

Despite these serious threats, there is almost no research on GM foods' effects . People all over the world are fighting to prevent US Biotech Genetically Modified "foods" from entering their countries. Many of these food plants have been altered to be classified as a pesticide, rather than a food. (i.e. Round Up Ready)
A movement is growing to demand labeling of GM foods, and stop any further genetic modification.

Through trade agreements, South American and Carribean countries are being pressured to accept GM foods as a basis for the Central American Free Trade Agreements (CAFTA). In CAFTA, the GM topic is referred to as Intellectual Property Rights. Multinational and US biotech companies patent Indigenous People's DNA, plants, seeds, and Indigenous knowledge for corporate profit. After patenting life, they alter just one gene in the lab to call life their own creation and reap profits. Indigenous People have cultivated these medicinal and food plants for thousands of years on sovereign territory. They have their own respec ted science. In the name of the younger western "science", this genetic modification is the final act of colonization. While corporations are taking profit for genetic modification of Indigenous life, Indigenous Peoples survive ongoing Genocide. This must end now.

Members and Non-Members are welcome to build this campaign.
Park Slope Food Coop Safe Food committee
Monthly Meetings
Second Tuesdays
6:30 p.m.
2nd floor of the coop
782 Union street, Brooklyn NY 11215 (between 6th and 7th avenue) * (718) 622-0560

***************************

Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
Cree Prophecy