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i wear blue everyday. i'm good at math, but I don't always love it. i swim, bike, run, and paint. things i like include maps, light blue underpants, old volvo station wagons, carrot cake with pineapple in it, sleeping, flip-flops, colours, crossword puzzles, the ocean, peanut butter and banana sandwiches, dancing, knitting, blackletter fonts, new socks, sunsets, getting things in the mail, my powerbook, sharp knives, massages, wes anderson movies, cilantro, long drives by myself, dryer lint, ebay, my tent, flying kites. things i don't like include headaches, the sticky stuff that gets left behind by bandaids/tape/stickers, being poor, the sound that metal garbage cans make when you take off the lid, being too cold, bad habits that i can't get rid of, bad grammar.
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Fri, December 1, 2006 - 2:55 PM
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======================================================== TAKE ACTION BEFORE DECEMBER 7! Tell your Member of Parliament to support a Ban on Terminator Seeds in Canada! On December 7th 2006 the House of Commons Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee will hold a one-hour hearing on Terminator technology. WRITE to your Member of Parliament and the Minister of Agriculture before Dec 7th. In March 2006 and February 2005, your letters stopped the Canadian government from acting to end the international moratorium on Terminator ("suicide seeds") at the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. In March, the Canadian delegation to the UN meeting did not object to the reaffirmation and strengthening of the moratorium. Yet, our government supported the moratorium without actually stating a position on Terminator. Now we find out that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is preparing the road for approval of Terminator! DEMAND that the Canadian Government state its unqualified opposition to this dangerous technology and take immediate steps to legislate a ban on field-testing and commercialization in Canada. Terminator or Genetic Use Restriction Technology (GURTs) is a technology of genetic engineering designed by the multinational seed industry to render seeds sterile after first harvest, thus preventing farmers from saving and re-using seed, forcing them to return to corporations to buy seed every season. This predatory strategy has been widely condemned, in Canada and across the world, because it threatens farmer livelihoods, food security, and agricultural biodiversity. And yet, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency continues to prepare for the potential introduction of Terminator seeds and there is no policy in Canada to address the devastating impacts Terminator would have on farmers' livelihoods. UPDATES: * In August 2006, Monsanto announced that it will buy US seed company Delta & Pine Land. If the deal goes through, Monsanto will own the most advanced research on Terminator including the only greenhouse trials of Terminator seeds in the world. (Monsanto previously committed not to commercialize Terminator but has begun to reword this pledge.) * In October 2005, the Canadian Patent Office granted the first ever Canadian patent on a Terminator technology (owned by Delta & Pine Land and the U.S. Department of Agriculture). * Swiss multinational Syngenta has requested a Canadian patent on Terminator potatoes. FOR MORE BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND A SAMPLE LETTER: www.banterminator.org/p/282 or contact the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network at info@cban.ca WRITE TO your Member of Parliament (postage is free). Use your postal code to search for your MP at www.parl.gc.ca MAKE SURE TO COPY YOUR LETTER TO: Hon. Chuck Strahl Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Telephone: 613 992-2940 Fax: 613 944-9376 E-Mail: Strahl.C@parl.gc.ca Right Hon. Stephen Harper Prime Minister House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Telephone: 613 992-4211 Fax: 613 941-6900 EMail: Harper.S@parl.gc.ca Wayne Easter, Liberal Agriculture Critic House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Telephone: 613 992-2406 Fax: 613 995-7408 EMail: Easter.W@parl.gc.ca André Bellavance Bloc Québ écois Agriculture Critic House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Telephone: 613 995-1554 Fax: 613 995-2026 EMail: Bellavance.A@parl.gc.ca Alex Atamanenko NDP Agriculture Critic House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Telephone: 613 996-8036 Fax: 613 943-0922 E-Mail: Atamanenko.A@parl.gc.ca This action is organized by the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, www.cban.ca. Please join us in the Campaign against Terminator seeds and other forms of corporate control over seeds. Please contact us for more information or to donate. info@cban.ca 613 241 2267 Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) Collaborative Campaigning for Food Sovereignty and Environmental Justice 431 Gilmour Street, Second Floor Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2P 0R5 Phone: 613 241 2267 Fax: 613 241 2506 coordinator@cban.ca www.cban.ca www.banterminator.org/p/282 _________________________________________ Ban Terminator Canada announcements list contact@banterminator.org www.banterminator.org
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Mon, November 6, 2006 - 10:44 AM
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www.givemeaning.com/donate/n...file.aspx (if you are an american, go vote in the elections too. unless you're a republican, heheh.)
Thu, November 2, 2006 - 2:56 PM
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