Gentechfrei GMOfree

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GentechfreiGMO-free
The Referendum

• Volksinitiative für Lebensmittel aus
  gentechnikfreier Landwirtschaft
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• Referendum Food produced by gmo-free
  agriculture

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GMO-free-referendum

• A moratorium for 5 years (beginning after a yes
  majority in vote about until 2011)
• Strictly no cultivation of GM-crops (including no
  importation of GMO-seed)
• Strictly no genetic modification to breed
  animals producing milk, meat, eggs, wool etc
• Not submitted to the moratorium GMO in medical
  health, research/field trials and imported
  food/feed (regulation by approved legislation)

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Our Aims

• Yes ballot referendum (Gentechfrei-Initiative)
• Sensitising Swiss people on problems and risks of
  GMO in food and ecosystems
• Establishing a broad alliance for a GMO-free
  Swiss (and European) agriculture
• No GM-Food in the Swiss food supply

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A broad alliance

• Farmers All organisations !!!
• Schweizer Bauernverband, Landfrauenverband, Bio
  Suisse, IP Suisse, Uniterre, Kleinbauern-Vereinigu
  ng, kagfreiland, Bioterra, Bäuerl. Zentrum
• Consumers The most important !!!
• Stiftung für Konsumentenschutz SKS, ACSI -
  Konsumentinnen Tessin
• Environment All organisations !!!
• WWF Switzerland, Pro Natura (FoE), Greenpeace CH
• Animal protection All (big) organisations !!!
• Schweizer Tierschutz, Zürcher Tierschutz,
  Schweizer Vogelschutz, Tierschutzbund
• Development All Organisations !!!
• Swissaid, Erklärung von Bern, Arbeitsgemeinschaft
  der Schweizer Hilfswerke
• And many other Organisations

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The political agenda
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Our message
We produce... We enjoy... We vote for...
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GMO-free campaign
Consumers dont want to buy GM-food.
Not in Luzern, not in Bern......
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GMO-free campaign
....neither in Zürich. Swiss Consumers dont want
to buy GM-food.
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GMO-free campaign
Farmers dont want to produce GM-crops.
Not when they are sewing.....
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GMO-free campaign
....neither when they harvest. Swiss Farmers
dont want to produce GM-food.
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Cantonal committees

Komitee gentechfreies Uri
Kantonales ParlamentarierInnen-Komitee Kantonales
Unterstützungskomitee der Trägerorganisationen Kan
tonale Koordinations- und Anlaufstelle Kantonaler
Mediendienst
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Too small for coexistence
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Thank you
Thank you for your solidarity in
Europe and all over the world. Take our flyer
Sorry only in German, French and Italian. Visit
our website www.gentechfrei.ch
www.sans-ogm.ch www.senza-ogm.ch
www.gmo-free.ch