Filed under: Say no to genetic engineering | Tags: Bt, Genetic Engineering, India, Monsanto
Reyes, one of our agriculture campaigners in India, shares her immediate thoughts on this 'first-of-its-kind' admission by Monsanto
This was my Saturday’s lyrics to breakfast in sunny Bangalore: Monsanto has decided to tell the truth about something: its technology doesn’t work!, reports The Hindu. I’m going to need a second cup of chai to digest this, Monsanto speaking honest!? Indian farmers and scientist have been seeing this in their Bt cotton fields for a few years: pests become resistant to Monsanto’s genetically engineered toxins and thus farmers apply huge amounts of pesticides. Monsanto has always denied this, has the recent massive rejection of its Bt brinjal in India woken up its senses?
Filed under: Encourage sustainable trade, Say no to genetic engineering | Tags: Bayer, GE, genetic contamination, Genetic Engineering, Genetically Modified Organisms, Rice, United States
Contamination of normal plants by GE (genetically engineered) plants is something we’ve been shouting about for years at Greenpeace. In 2006 we released a report that showed that the “accidental” release of GE rice by Bayer into the US rice supply led to global costs of between US$ 741 million and US$ 1.285 billion.
Filed under: Encourage sustainable trade, Protect ancient forests, Say no to genetic engineering, Stop climate change | Tags: c2c, Copenhagen, Jack Johnson, Jim Carroll, Live Earth, Mobym Missy Higgins, Radiohead
From Making Waves
In 2007, Aussie musician Missy Higgins and her band toured the US in a Prius, participated in Live Earth and helped PETA campaign against animal abuse. That same year, KT Tunstall also jumped on the green bandwagon, touring in a biodiesel-fuelled bus and supporting the “carbon diet” campaign by Global Cool. And Moby is currently participating in the Play4Climate campaign co-created by the EU and MTV to educate people about climate change with a musical backdrop.
Filed under: Philippines, Say no to genetic engineering | Tags: Biodiversity, Food, Genetic Engineering, Genetically Modified Organisms, GMOs, greenpeacebuzz, Negros, Pesticides, Philippines, Sustainability
Last August 19, 2009 Greenpeace activists with 400 farmers and members of church and civic groups trooped today to the Negros Occidental provincial capitol to press members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP). The activity was conducted to encourage the Provincial Council to look into real solutions like organic farming, instead of unreliable, unproven techno fixes like agrochemicals and genetically modified organisms, to address food security and safeguard public health and to secure the future of Negros as the organic farming capital of the Philippines.
Filed under: Say no to genetic engineering | Tags: Banaue, GE Free zones, GMO, I Love my rice GMO-Free, Ifugao, Rice, Rice terraces
The iconic Philippine Rice Terraces, a UNESCO Living Cultural Heritage site, was declared a geneticaly-modified organism(GMO) free zone. Greenpeace volunteers together with local guides unfurled a giant banner with the words “GMO-FREE ZONE” at the site.
Below is a visual story of the said event.
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Levi Nayangahan
Filed under: Deep Green, Defending our Oceans, Encourage sustainable trade, Greenpeace, Stop climate change | Tags: Global Warming, Green My Apple, Greenwashing, Rex Weyler, Whaling
Elle magazine announces that eco-friendly fashions are hip and features Stella McCartney vegan, silk dress sandals at $495, which would work well on a date in the $100,000 Tesla electric sports car. “In this epoch of global warming,” declares Green Guide online fashion consultant Anne Wallace, “fall fashion rules are undergoing climate change: it’s OK to wear knee-high faux fur boots with a light cotton skirt and wool sweater.” Vogue magazine advises, “prepare for erratic weather by putting warmer wraps over something skimpy.” Like your awareness of the issues?
Filed under: Say no to genetic engineering | Tags: I Love my rice GMO-Free, Puso, stand up for your rice
Yvette Lee
Filed under: Say no to genetic engineering | Tags: I Love my rice GMO-Free, stand up for your rice
Mary Ann Mayo
Filed under: Say no to genetic engineering | Tags: I Love my rice GMO-Free, Rice, stand up for your rice
Rice is very much part of our life, especially to those who grew up in rice growing areas or what used to be rural areas. Where I live in Marikina used to be surrounded by rice fields bordered by a small creek teeming with fishes, frogs, birds and reptiles.
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Filed under: 1, Say no to genetic engineering | Tags: I Love my rice GMO-Free, Rice, stand up for your rice
I was sick with the flu when I was 15, and the only thing that I wanted was Champorado (chocolate flavored rice porridge). My Nanay (mother), frantic with me already for being sick, was able to whip up champorado after 10 minutes. I was a little bit amazed that she was able to cook it in such a short time, despite the hazy and fuzzy state of my brain. But I was so hungry that I finished it in 5 minutes flat. It only dawned on me afterwards that she didn’t use the malagkit kind. Madaya! My nanay had used the ordinary rice and not the ‘malagkit’ (sticky rice).
Greenpeace Southeast Asia 