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Provincial Health Officer's Annual Report for 2005 (174 pages). Note of interest: The PHO recommends mandatory labeling of GE foods. Also comments on intensive livestock operations, aquaculture, and industrial contaminants in food.
 

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List of the 12 genetically engineered crops and foods approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency(CFIA) and Health Canada. Includes name of crop, company producing it, trait being genetically altered, whether or not commercially available to farmers, and details about registration, commercialization, and whether or not these crops are actually being grown.

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Table showing GE crops and processed food ingredients that are legally produced in Canada, and/or imported. Current as of July 2008, (2 pages). Produced by the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN).
 

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California-based organization dedicated to the development of ecologically-based food systems through educational events, conferences, regional trainings and alliance-building.

The Society for a G.E. Free B.C. is a social justice coalition of groups and individuals across BC/Yukon working for local, community based agriculture, and against genetic engineering of plants and trees. GE Free BC envisions a food-sovereign Canada where no genetically engineered life forms are created, patented, approved, bought, sold or traded.
 

Coalition of Canadian organizations based in Ottawa, dedicated to collaborative campaigning for food sovereignty and environmental justice. "The mission of CBAN is to promote food sovereignty and democratic decision-making on science and technology issues in order to protect the integrity of the environment, health, food, and the livelihoods of people in Canada and around the world by facilitating, informing and organizing civil society action, researching, and providing information to government for policy development".
 

Local government resolution supporting seed sovereignty. Santa Fe County Board of Commissioners, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), Jan 2007

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Report by Grassroots International & Food and Water Watch, 2008 (24 pages).

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Statement from African civil society organizations at the World Social Forum 2007 Nairobi, Kenya - 25 January 2007 (3 pages)

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