Genetically Modified Food
News
- Intellectual Basis for GM Business Flawed - January 2008 by Charles Rue (more)
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Genetically Modified Foods and the NSW State Elections 2007 - February 2007 by Charles Rue (more)
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No to GE Food -Transgenic Food as a NSW 2007 Election Issue - August 2007 by Charles Rue (more)
Campaigns
- Maintain GM Ban, Columban Centre Argues (more)
- Media Release from JPICoz -
"Genetically Modified Foods and the NSW State Elections 2007"(flyer)
- No to GE Food -
"Transgenic Food as a NSW 2007 Election Issue" (flyer)
- Vatican and GE Food - A campaign was initiated to lobby the Vatican to
reject the overtures of the USA embassy in Rome to gain Vatican support
for the production of Genetically Engineered food. A sample letter
outlining the problem asked Church and secular bodies to write of their
objections to the Apostolic Delegate in Australia and the Pontifical
Commission for Justice and Peace in Rome. … [PEJ archive]
- Iraq Patenting Laws - A campaign was initiated to lobby the Australian
government to help the Iraq government to rescind USA style patenting
laws imposed under Bremer. The rationale was that laws disadvantaged
poor farmers, and Australia had been at least complicit in their
enactment. …[PEJ archive]
- In 2002 the Australian Conference of Catholic Bishops established
Catholic Earthcare Australia (CEA) Beginning with the teaching of
Father Sean McDonagh at the Columban Mission Institute, Sydney, from
the mid 1970s Columbans raised the then peripheral issue of ecology and
justice. After the New Year Letter of Pope John Paul II in 1990 stating
that care for the environment was integral to Catholic belief.
Columbans continue to support CEA. www.catholicearthcareoz.net
- Canberra Director of TRIPs within Dfat: The Columban JPIC Office
Australia is in communication with the Director of the government
office dealing with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement
of the WTO. A campaign is being organised to have the government help
amend the Agreement to make it more just towards developing nations,
and to promote values in the UN Convention on Biodiversity. [JPIC
letters archives) http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index
- Canberra Director of TRIPs within Dfat: The Columban JPIC Office
Australia is in communication with the Director of the government
office dealing with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement
of the WTO. A campaign is being organised to have the government help
amend the Agreement to make it more just towards developing nations,
and to promote values in the UN Convention on Biodiversity. [JPIC
letters archives) http://www.aidwatch.org.au/index
International
- Trade Related Intellectual Property Agreement: The central office for
Columban JPIC has joined a world wide campaign on amending the Trade
Related Intellectual Property Agreement of the WTO and promoting the UN
Convention on Biodiversity. Columban JPIC Australia supports this
campaign through local actions. Cf. Local campaign www.columban.com
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