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The global voice for consumers
La voix des Consommateurs à travers le monde
La voz global para la defensa de los consumidores
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GLOBAL FOOD PROBLEM
- More than 800 million people dont have enough
food for their basic nutritional requirements. - 24,000 people die every day from hunger and
related illnesses. - 1.3 billion people who subsist on an income of
less than one US dollar per day.
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- From a consumers perspective, food is
- fundamental basic human right
- health
- human development
- culture
- economy
- sustainability
- security
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- When its time for my children to assume the
responsibility of looking for food, I hope it
wouldnt be as hard for them as we are
encountering it today. - -Filipina Farmer
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GM CONCERNS
- Human Rights
- Ethics
- Consumers Rights
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INSTRUMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
- Right to safe and nutritious food and food
security - UDHR (1948)
- Rome Declaration on World Food Security (1996)
- World Food Summit Plan of Action
- Right to health
- UDHR
- WHO Constitution (1946)
- CODEX Alimentarius Commission (163)
- Right to healthy environment
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
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INSTRUMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
- The availability of food in a quantity and
quality sufficient to satisfy the dietary needs
of the individuals, free form adverse substances,
and acceptable within a given culture The
accessibility of such food in ways that are
sustainable and that do not interfere with
enjoyment of other rights. - Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights - General Comment 12, Paragraph 8
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ETHICAL ISSUES
- Proprietary nature of GM
- State withdrawal from agricultural research
- GM knowledge, technology itself and application
are under patents and licensing agreements - Further concentration of economic power
- Traditional, age-old, communal ownership of the
primary source of genes - Rights of the poor and the powerless to
- Equitable benefit sharing
- Equitable access to technology
- Have active voice in the decision-making process
- Transparency, accountability
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ETHICAL QUESTIONS
- Does GM offer more food, much safer and
nutritious on the table for the worlds poor? - Worlds produce is enough to provide for each
person per day
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ETHICAL QUESTIONS
- Does GM offer greater food security?
- Our experiences in our respective countries
point to the following problems as creating risks
to our food security - Poverty
- Environmental degradation
- Inequitable distribution
- Inequitable pricing
- Governance
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ETHICAL QUESTIONS
- What information do we have on GMs unintended
impact? - Health
- Environment
- Sustainable cultivation
- Gene pollution
- Women and future generation
- Economic and social displacement of farmers
- Rural development
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ETHICAL QUESTIONS
- How does GM food affect our daily life?
- Religious reaons Halal
- Cultural, philosophical reasons we attach to our
choice of food - What is it that GM takes out from the meaning of
our daily lives?
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Consumers Rights
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CONSUMERS RIGHTS
- Right to the satisfaction of basic needs
including adequate and nutritious food and health - Right to safety
- Right to be informed
- Right to choose
- Right to be heard
- Right to redress
- Right to consumer education
- Right to a healthy and sustainable environment
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CI STRATEGIES ON GMO
- CI interventions at CODEX
- CI at the WTO
- CI on individual governments role
- Consumers organisations (CI members)
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CI POSITION
- Genetic engineering could affect toxicity of
foods, allergies and nutrients - appropriate regulatory and control mechanisms for
all biotechnology products and processes - monitoring of the socio-economic, human health
and environmental repercussions of introducing
biotechnology products and processes - informed community and public participation in
decision-making processes involving biotechnology - monitoring of developments in biotechnology at
national and international levels - an international code of conduct or convention on
biotechnology
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CONSUMERS PERSPECTIVES
- International standards for the safety and
labeling of foods produced using biotechnology. - precautionary principle
- foods are proven safe before they are on the
market - food safety questions should be investigated and
assessed by independent research institutions - Decisions about what is 'safe enough' should be
based upon benefits as well as risks - comprehensive and comprehensible labeling
- Post-market monitoring to identify any problems
that may emerge over time. - product.
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CONSUMERS PERSPECTIVES
- Environmental impact on biodiversity and
ecosystems - Internationally agreed and enforceable rules for
research protocols, field trials and post
marketing surveillance - Field trials should meet agreed international,
scientifically-based standards, and be subject to
a system of prior, informed consent. - Strengthening of the participation of consumers
organisations and civil society
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CONSUMERS PERSPECTIVES
- Special attention on the impact of GE on
developing countries - Urgent international guidelines on GE research,
development, testing, production and marketing - Full and clear labeling on GM food recognizable
worldwide
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CONSUMERS PERSPECTIVES
- Better defined, more thorough and transparent
scientific evidence on GM - Comprehensive risk analysis policy
- Risk assessment,
- Risk management
- Risk communication
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CI POSITION ON GMO AT THE WTO
- Precautionary approach
- Informed choice
- GM and non-GM foods are different products and
must be labeled. - Measures to uphold informed choice should not be
undermined by the WTO. Labeling of GM foods
should not be threatened by WTO rules. - Consumers Rights and the Multilateral Trading
System - August 1999
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CONSUMERS RIGHT TO KNOW
- Access of consumers to adequate information to
enable them to make informed choices according to
individual wishes and needs. - Article 3, Guidelines for Consumer Protection
- UN General Assembly 19____
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Consumers Right To Representation
- Transparent systems of evaluation
- Impact of GM on health, environment, human
rights. - Data must be publicly available.
- Consumers must be represented in the evaluation
process
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CI POSITION ON GMO
CALL FOR GOVERNMENTS
- One of the most important aspect of State
obligations is to safeguard health, economic,
social and cultural rights of the people
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CI AT THE 2002 WORLD FOOD SUMMIT
CALL FOR GOVERNMENTS
- Require full pre-market evaluation and social and
safety impact assessments of (GM) foods and the
products of other new food technologies - Impose a moratorium on the cultivation and
marketing of new GM foods - Dont intimidate other governments which restrict
or prohibit such products - Require clear and explicit labelling of GM foods
- Tackle the power of transnational corporations in
food production and distribution - Prohibit the use of patents on life forms which
impede access for farmers and consumers and
increase the dependency of developing economies
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GM FOOD PARAMETERS
- Environmental
- Ethical
- Cultural
- Economic
- Health
- Scientific
- Security and sustainability
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- Appropriateness
- We go back to the basic question of the
appropriateness of GMO food as an intervention to
solve the worlds problems on adequate food,
nutrition and food security.
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