Ottawa - Crops, Cars & Climate Crisis

[Ms Zimmy]

For those of you interested

YOU ARE INVITED TO A PUBLIC FORUM

[color:red]Crops, Cars & Climate Crisis

The Global Impacts of Growing Biofuels on Food, Farmers, and Human Rights

Featuring special guests from Canada, Mexico, Paraguay, and the Philippines.

The corporate "agrofuels" gold-rush has ignited a major global conflict. Governments across the world are committing to agrofuels as a part of their energy strategies. But producing crops for fuel is already changing world agriculture, with major consequences for people, ecosystems, and the planet.

Wednesday, April 30

7:00pm - 9:30pm

Bronson Centre

211 Bronson Ave

Ottawa

Part of a 6-city tour (Charlottetown, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal)

Free admission. Everyone welcome.

Wheelchair accessible. Translation service provided.

For Information: www.cban.ca/agrofuels or 613.241.2267

Presented by: Beyond Factory Farming, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, ETC Group, Food Action Committee - Ecology Action Centre Halifax, Inter Pares, National Farmers Union, P.E.I. Coalition for a GMO-Free Province, Partnership Africa Canada, The Ram’s Horn, USC Canada, and Union Paysanne. This event is made possible with the aid of a grant from the Canadian International Development Agency.

[FOWL]

This is a great cause. Growing crops to produce fuel is complete insanity. However, our organic waste CAN and SHOULD be refined into fuel, some people are doing this now. We need terminology to differentiate between the two, because I see recycling our food waste into fuel as a necessity, and growing corn for fuel as insanely wasteful.