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Alternative Food And Farming Policies:
Challenging The Industrial Agriculture
And Biotechnology Model
Sacramento, CA June 23-25

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• Alternative food and farming policies: challenging the industrial agriculture and biotechnology model.

• International trade rules harm California's agriculture sector
• WTO food and agriculture rules – briefing on critical issues.
  
• Free trade industrial agriculture rules threaten the world’s farmers: the WTO Agreement on Agriculture.
  
• Free trade industrial agriculture rules threaten the world’s farmers: the WTO TRIPs Agreement.

• Making room for alternatives: how to move from an industrial agriculture/biotech model to a local sustainable system that supports people and the planet.
• Fully integrated food systems: regaining connections between farmers and consumers.
• The ethics of eating: why environmentalism starts at the breakfast table, by Alice Waters.

• Bush Administration Challenge To European Union Moratorium On Genetically Engineered Products.
• Fact sheet on industrial food and agriculture: effects on environment, farmers, farmworkers, health & hunger.
• Fast facts on the corporate consolidation of industrial agriculture.
  
• Seven deadly myths and facts about industrial agriculture and free trade.
  
• Scientists and government regulators speak out against genetic engineering.
  
• Health and environmental hazards of genetically engineered foods.
  
• The failure of the U.S. government to regulate genetically engineered foods.
  
• Food irradiation: a threat to health and sustainable farming.
• The growing market and farmer resistance to GE wheat.

• Seven deadly myths and facts about hunger.
• Quotes on industrial agriculture: recipe for hunger.
• Industrial agriculutre: land loss, poverty and hunger.

• Dr. Tewolde Egziabher, opinion editorial, general manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of the government of Ethiopia and IFG Board Member.
• Percy Schmeiser, opinion editorial, fifth generation canola farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada, being sued by the Monsanto Corporation for illegally using their "Roundup Ready" seeds.
• Dr. Vandana Shiva, opinion editorial, president of the Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology.
• Book release for Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture.