Stop GM Gathering, Ireland

Dear Friends,
In mid-Feb­ru­ary, the EU pro­posed a relax­ing of the leg­is­la­tion around the pres­ence of GM ingre­di­ents in food stuffs and ani­mal feed in Europe. This move was sup­port­ed by Bren­dan Smith, then Min­is­ter for Agri­cul­ture, Food and Fish­eries, with­out a man­date from the peo­ple of Ire­land.


Dear Friends,
In mid-Feb­ru­ary, the EU pro­posed a relax­ing of the leg­is­la­tion around the pres­ence of GM ingre­di­ents in food stuffs and ani­mal feed in Europe. This move was sup­port­ed by Bren­dan Smith, then Min­is­ter for Agri­cul­ture, Food and Fish­eries, with­out a man­date from the peo­ple of Ire­land.

It is now time to har­vest the grow­ing momen­tum of con­cern among the peo­ple of Ire­land.

Food Action and GM-Free Ire­land invite you to par­tic­i­pate in ‘Keep­ing Ire­land GM Free/StopGMO – Gath­er­ing Momen­tum’ an all-Island gath­er­ing. This will take place on Sun­day, 10th of April 2011, at the Dublin Food Coop. The aim of this all day event is to:

1. facil­i­tate net­work­ing between food groups, farm­ing groups, com­mu­ni­ty gar­den­ers, social jus­tice and envi­ron­men­tal, groups, pol­i­cy mak­ers, sci­en­tists, med­ical pro­fes­sion, and indi­vid­u­als,
2. devel­op strate­gies for:
* build­ing resis­tance against the push from the GM sec­tor lob­by­ing at a gov­ern­ment lev­el
* the com­mu­ni­ca­tion of infor­ma­tion around the use of genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fi­ca­tion and its impli­ca­tions
* inter-agency work that will strength­en the GM Free move­ment in Ire­land

The pro­gramme for the day is yet to be finalised but will be con­firmed pri­or to the event. A veg­an, whole­food lunch will be pro­vid­ed and we invite atten­dants to give a sug­gest­ed dona­tion of €5.

If you would like to attend, please click here to com­plete the Reg­is­tra­tion Form.

If you need fur­ther details, please con­tact stopgm@riseup.net, 0857296088.

In appre­ci­a­tion, Food Action
http://stopgmevent.wordpress.com/