Resources

• Read or download the Chefs Guide to Genetically Modified Foods
• Order the GM Food Information postcards for your customers.

  

  The bee and cow contemplate GM alfalfa

Take Action

• Sign your restaurant on to the declaration against GM alfalfa.

The GMO-Free ZONE is an initiative of the Canadian Chefs’ Congress that encourages restaurants and food establishments to declare their opposition to Genetically Engineered (GE) foods.

• Join the GMO Free ZONE – Food Professionals Against Genetically Modified Organisms group on Facebook.
• If your establishment wishes to proclaim its support of the GMO-Free ZONE send an email to gmofree@canadianchefscongress.com you’ll be added to the growing list of likeminded businesses and send you a door sticker!

In 2010 at the Canadian Chefs' Congress in BC more than 200 chefs signed a petition against GE salmon.

Click here to sign up to the CBAN News and Action Listserve - receive the latest information and action alerts - low traffic list to keep you informed.

"Alfalfa: Queen of the Pasture"

The professional animator who made this film about GM alfalfa is organic farmer, Nathan Carey, who is featured in the film "To Make a Farm" about young farmers! Check it out!

"Smurfanto"

Smurfs deal with the arrival of GMOs in this great 7 minute film from Quebec!

The World According to Monsanto

Monsanto is the world leader in genetically engineered seeds, as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. This century-old empire has created some of the most toxic products ever sold, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the herbicide Agent Orange. Based on a painstaking investigation, The World According to Monsanto puts together the pieces of the company’s history, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and numerous first-hand accounts.

Misleading reports, collusion, pressure tactics and attempts at corruption: the history of Monsanto is filled with disturbing episodes. Behind its clean, green image, Monsanto is tightening its grasp on the world seed market, striving for market supremacy to the detriment of food security and the global environment.

CBAN rating: CBAN gives 5 stars to a great film that documents our victories against Monsanto and the most pressing current issues. The film includes footage from the Canadian fight against Bovine Growth Hormone and ends with the dramatic situation faced by small farmers in Paraguay who are surrounded by expanding monoculture of GE soy and its herbicide Roundup. How can these farmers protect their families from pesticide poisoning? See La Soja Mata/Soy Kills or join with CBAN to support these farmers and to follow the issues raised in the film. Contact CBAN to buy the film. Click here to see more information about Monsanto.

The Seed Map is a teaching and advocacy tool designed to show the state of global agro-biodiversity today. Anyone can use it – teachers, gardeners, policy makers, and more! The map identifies key threats to the world’s seed and biodiversity systems, and highlights regions where peoples’ movements are fighting to protect biodiversity – and winning!

Map of GE Food Labelling Laws Around the World: From the Center for Food Safety US.

Fun and informative! for your local film festivals and events!

Click here to download a GE-Free Popcorn Packet for you to use at your local events - created by GE Free BC

Click here to see the paper-folding diagram

You can watch Julie Emerson fold the packet in her great 3-minute "how-to" video posted on You Tube - search for "Popcorn Packet"

"I designed the GE Free Popcorn Packet to give out not only some important info about genetic engineering of corn and other seeds but also some free organic popcorn. The GE Free Seeds Free Packet, containing beans to plant, was a success for several years, and with the many upcoming Seedy Saturdays, farmers’ markets, and screenings of the film King Corn, I thought it was time for a fresh take on it."

The text is printed on the paper exactly as it is to be folded, and has contact info for GE Free BC. If you live outside BC, feel free to modify it with your own seed and contact information by actual cutting-and-pasting. The packet is an easy to fold origami envelope, based on a Seeds of Diversity design.