CONGRESSO DO WEP NA SÉRVIA E MONTENEGROO World Ecological Parties, estrutura federativa verde de que o MPT faz parte, reuniu-se nos passados dias 6 e 7 de Maio em VRSAC, cidade da SÉRVIA E MONTENEGRO, tendo, no final, feito chegar aos órgãos de comunicação social o press release que infra publicamos._______________Vrsac declaration of the World Ecological Parties General Assembly - 6th & 7th May 2006 Climate change, good food, clean water and healthy children _________________The World Ecological Parties present at the General Assembly in Vrsac, Serbia in May 2006 send the following appeal to the world's peoples on the extremely important problem of global climate change and human health. What is the connection between climate change, the health of our families and the food that we eat? Food is travelling thousands of kilometres around the world. Strawberries from South Africa, apples from New Zealand, meat from Argentina… this is a globalized economy. The transportation of our food by airplane creates enormous amounts of greenhouse gases in the stratosphere and accelerates the climate change. The way we distribute our “globalized” foods produces numerous pollutions. Today's industrial agriculture is often based on the petro-chemical industry. It becomes more and more difficult to find good healthy food produced locally. Today our children have more and more modern diseases. One of the reasons is because of the way we produce our food. Not only does our food travel thousands of kilometres, but also we use hundreds of thousands of kilos of pesticides on our food and inject our animals with hormones. This is industrial, factory food. This is what we eat and feed to our children. The pesticides and the hormones also find their way into our water supply. The vast majority of the world's scientists recognize the impact of human activity on the global changes in the world's climate. They also agree that these changes will radically alter the world as we know it today. The World Ecological Parties appeal to the governments and the citizens of our planet: to reduce the production of greenhouse gases, to promote the production of healthy organic food and to protect the quality of our water supply. Change the food, not the climate!
CONGRESSO DO WEP NA SÉRVIA E MONTENEGROO World Ecological Parties, estrutura federativa verde de que o MPT faz parte, reuniu-se nos passados dias 6 e 7 de Maio em VRSAC, cidade da SÉRVIA E MONTENEGRO, tendo, no final, feito chegar aos órgãos de comunicação social o press release que infra publicamos._______________Vrsac declaration of the World Ecological Parties General Assembly - 6th & 7th May 2006 Climate change, good food, clean water and healthy children _________________The World Ecological Parties present at the General Assembly in Vrsac, Serbia in May 2006 send the following appeal to the world's peoples on the extremely important problem of global climate change and human health. What is the connection between climate change, the health of our families and the food that we eat? Food is travelling thousands of kilometres around the world. Strawberries from South Africa, apples from New Zealand, meat from Argentina… this is a globalized economy. The transportation of our food by airplane creates enormous amounts of greenhouse gases in the stratosphere and accelerates the climate change. The way we distribute our “globalized” foods produces numerous pollutions. Today's industrial agriculture is often based on the petro-chemical industry. It becomes more and more difficult to find good healthy food produced locally. Today our children have more and more modern diseases. One of the reasons is because of the way we produce our food. Not only does our food travel thousands of kilometres, but also we use hundreds of thousands of kilos of pesticides on our food and inject our animals with hormones. This is industrial, factory food. This is what we eat and feed to our children. The pesticides and the hormones also find their way into our water supply. The vast majority of the world's scientists recognize the impact of human activity on the global changes in the world's climate. They also agree that these changes will radically alter the world as we know it today. The World Ecological Parties appeal to the governments and the citizens of our planet: to reduce the production of greenhouse gases, to promote the production of healthy organic food and to protect the quality of our water supply. Change the food, not the climate!