Call for Farmer Testimonials on GM Alfalfa: What would GM Alfalfa mean to you?
Posted: March 16, 2011
Categories: Events
Call for Farmer Testimonials on GM Alfalfa: What would GM alfalfa mean to you?
Deadline: March 31, 2011
The Request: Please tell us how GM alfalfa will affect your farm and farm business. The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) is asking farmers to send testimonials about the direct impact you foresee with GM alfalfa. Your testimonial could be as short as a few lines and will be used to help educate politicians and consumers about the important role of alfalfa in food and farming, and to push for the moratorium on GM alfalfa.
The Issue: GM alfalfa has been approved for planting in the US and is one step away from being sold as seed in Canada. Farmers’ voices on the impacts of GM alfalfa have been heard in House of Commons Agriculture Committee hearings and have been influential in making a motion for a moratorium on GM alfalfa happen. The motion is currently being debated in the Committee with support from all parties except the Conservatives.
Your Testimonial: We will post your testimonial on our website and use it in communications to politicians and consumers. We just need your testimonial and your permission to publish it with your name and region, we will not publish your contact details. Your testimonial could be as short as a couple of sentences or a couple of paragraphs. Please see below two examples from other farmers. Please write what you want politicians and consumers to know about what GM alfalfa would mean to you.
Please send your testimonial by March 31, 201 or direct any questions or other comments to Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, coordinator@cban.ca Phone: 613 241 2267 ext 25 Fax: 613 241 2506, 431 Gilmour Street, Second Floor, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2P 0R5 or contact us for more information.
In addition, you can send your testimonial directly to your MP and members of the Agriculture Committee. Visit http://www.cban.ca/alfalfa for contacts.
Thank you so much for your contribution and for sharing your experience and perspective with us!
About CBAN: The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) is coordinating a campaign with farmer and organic sector groups to stop genetically modified (GM) alfalfa. For information and updates please contact us or visit http://www.cban.ca/alfalfa CBAN Members are: ACT for the Earth (Toronto), Biofreedom (Edmonton), Canadian Organic Growers, Check Your Head, Coalition for Safe Food (B.C.), Council of Canadians, Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, Food Action  Committee of Ecology Action Centre, Halifax, GE Free Yukon, GeneAction  (Toronto), Greenpeace Canada, Inter Pares, National Farmers Union,  P.E.I. Coalition for a GMO-Free Province, Saskatchewan Organic  Directorate, Society for a G.E. Free B.C., Union Paysanne, USC Canada.http://www.cban.ca