Terminatortechnologie ächten!

A strong coalition of groups in Germany has launched a campaign to Ban Terminator. The groups have established the website in German www.freie-saat.de and makes the following demands:

We are calling on the German representatives at the 8th conference of member states of the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP8) that will meet in March in Brazil,

· to speak up for the preservation and the strengthening of the de facto moratorium on the commercial use and field testing of Terminator technology

and

· to work towards a world-wide ban, unlimited in time, within the framework of the convention.

We are furthermore calling on the German Parliament and Government, to

· prohibit the patenting, registration, licensing or any other form of acknowledgement of intellectual property rights in context with this technology,

· make a ban on the Terminator Technology part of the German law on genetic engineering,

· not provide research funding by the public sector for projects that could promote Terminator Technology and its development,
and

· most importantly, speak up within the European Community, at all levels, for the implementation of the above-mentioned demands.

The organisations who are signatories below see the development and accreditation of Terminator Technology as a threat to food security world wide. This technology presents a form of acquisition of vital resources that has to be outlawed!

Supporter-organizations in Germany:

„Kein Patent auf Leben!“
Aktion 3. Welt Saar
Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft (AbL.)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Umweltbeauftragten in der Ev. Kirche in Deutschland (AGU)
ATTAC
Ausschuss für den Dienst auf dem Lande in der EKD
Bioland
Bonner AK gegen Gentechnologie
Brot für die Welt
BUKO Agrar Koordination
BUKO-Kampagne gegen Biopiraterie
Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND)
Bund Ökologischer Lebensmittelwirtschaft (BÖLW)
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelische Jugend im ländlichen Raum (BAG ejl)
Bündnis für die gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft in Niedersachsen, Bremen und Hamburg
Bürgerinitiative gentechnikfreies Schleswig-Holstein
Demeter
Dreschflegel
Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (EED)
Evangelisches Bildungszentrum Hesselberg
Gen-ethisches Netzwerk
Gentechnikfreie Regionen in Deutschland
Germanwatch
NABU
Naturland
Ökologischer Ärztebund
Ökomarkt
PAN Germany (Pestizid Aktionsnetzwerk)
Share e.V.
Umweltinstitut München
Verein zur Erhaltung der Nutzpflanzenvielfalt (VEN)
Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft