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Rice growers: strictly implement and enforce the March 2007 moratorium on GM field trials in California
Consumers Union of Japan and No! GMO Campaign have written to Californian rice growers, asking them to strictly implement and enforce the March 2007 moratorium on GM field trials in California.
We are still concerned about the undetermined events that led to the contamination of long grain rice in the Southern States and skeptical about the control of [...]
Stop aerial spraying of banana plantations!
Consumers Union of Japan supports the campaign against aerial spraying (using airplanes) on bananas in the Philippines. CUJ signed the online petition which can be found here.
In the Philippines, only export Cavendish banana plantations use aerial spraying to apply pesticides. Communities within and around these plantations complain of the health effects they suffer, contamination of [...]
Hair analysis as a possible way to investigate heavy metal pollution
FSCW General Meeting Special Lecture: “Hair analysis as a possible way to investigate heavy metal pollution - interim report” by Dr. Hiroshi Yasuda, Director of La Belle Vie Preventive Medicine Laboratory
Summary of Lecture by Hiroshi Yasuda
April 26, 2008
Tokyo, Japan
We have conducted investigations to determine the degree of heavy metal pollution in hair from parents [...]
Please continue raising your dairy cattle with non-GMO feed!
080401-non-gmo-feed-letter (pdf)
The Non! GMO Campaign has sent a letter to Australian food producers regarding GM-free dairy products:
Japan currently imports farm products, beef and other meat products, dairy products, natural cheese, and wheat from the following top four countries: The United States, China, EU and Australia. Due to the outbreak of BSE in North America, Japan has [...]
G8 Action Network: Declaration of Participants in the International Solidarity Days
Make the Hokkaido Summit the Last Summit of the G8!–Declaration of Participants in the International Solidarity Days of the G8
The G8 Summit opened in Hokkaido in July, 2008 with the usual rhetoric of concern about conditions in Africa. These are statements that few people in Africa and the rest of the world take seriously, given [...]
Japan Resources No 144
jr-144 (pdf) Japan Resources No 144
On a hot day in July we finished compiling the latest issue of Japan Resources. Many articles about our consumer activities, the large peace conference to support Article 9 of Japan’s Constitution, the trip to the Planet Diversity Conference in Germany and the campaign to keep Australia GMO-free. - Editors
CONTENTS:
About [...]
Tokyo Actions against the G8 summit
The G8 summit will be held in Hokkaido, Japan. On July 7-9, head of states from just eight of the world’s countries will gather together at Lake Toya. There they will make decisions on the future in the world, protected by the police and military. While the Japanese government welcomes the summit, many people who [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off so far )Report from the Planet Diversity Conference in Bonn, Germany
Consumers Union of Japan participated together with other Japanese NGOs at the large Planet Diversity conference in Bonn, Germany on May 12-16, 2008. It was a global congress on the future of food and agriculture, with a demonstration to celebrate biodiversity.
At the rally, anti-GMO activists including Percy Schmeiser and Vandana Shiva spoke to the [...]
Evaluate the Food Safety Commission!
Japan does not have any equivalent to the US Food and Drug Administration, and there is no Commissioner for Health and Consumer Affairs like in the European Union. Yet, recent events have shown that food safety is a huge concern among consumers in Japan.
The independent watchdog, Food Safety Citizens’ Watch meets regularly and discusses important [...]
Global Article 9 Declaration to Abolish War
Ms. Yoko Tomiyama, CUJ’s veteran activist and chairperson, participated in the huge Global Article 9 conference at Makuhari, Chiba on May 4-6, 2008.
A Declaration (pdf) was adopted by participants of the Global Article 9 Conference to Abolish War, endorsed by Nobel Peace Laureates Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, and by the Nobel Women’s Peace Initiative. To [...]
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