Global Food Security Summit: Send a Message

[SpiralHawk]

Fresh from the blogosphere - an opportunity to sign on and support clean food and a clean earth at this global summit.

Key decisions will be made. Are we going to biotech the bejabbers our of our planet? Not what most people or families would choose.
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"Later this month at the behest of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), governmental representatives from around the world will convene for a third world food summit in Rome.

"While the FAO has prepared an official declaration to launch the summit, a group of civil society organizations have prepared their own draft document: Policies & Actions to Eradicate Hunger and Malnutrition. These alternative proposals are based not on the lobbying of mega food corporations, but rather on the experiences of small-scale farmers, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, women, youth, social movements, and others from all over the world.

"Their understandings and advocacy arise in the context of an emerging food sovereignty movement that recognizes an essential human right to adequate clean food – food grown in a way that does not poison our environment..."

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