Post by Okwes on Mar 7, 2006 12:40:13 GMT -5
Please forward widely:
Danielle Schenandoah, founder of The Ka-na-hi'Yo foundation presents to the Safe
Food committee this Full Moon, Tuesday March 14th, at 7:30.
Ka-na-hi:Yo translates to "It is a Good Seed." She has presented to the United
Nations and Internationally. Her vision is to restore a sustainable relationship
with Mother Earth for the Indigenous refugees of NAFTA, as more and more
Indigenous farmers from the south are displaced due to the flood of US
Genetically Modified corn. She offers traditional Iroqouis farming workshops to
community gardens and farms. Her work includes protecting the
Haudenosaunee(Iroquois) Nation's precious Indigenous seeds for the next seven
generations.
Members and Non-Members are welcome to this presentation.
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
****************************
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
respected 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
Danielle Schenandoah, founder of The Ka-na-hi'Yo foundation presents to the Safe
Food committee this Full Moon, Tuesday March 14th, at 7:30.
Ka-na-hi:Yo translates to "It is a Good Seed." She has presented to the United
Nations and Internationally. Her vision is to restore a sustainable relationship
with Mother Earth for the Indigenous refugees of NAFTA, as more and more
Indigenous farmers from the south are displaced due to the flood of US
Genetically Modified corn. She offers traditional Iroqouis farming workshops to
community gardens and farms. Her work includes protecting the
Haudenosaunee(Iroquois) Nation's precious Indigenous seeds for the next seven
generations.
Members and Non-Members are welcome to this presentation.
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
****************************
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
respected 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