SOC/BIO: More Anti-GM Activism

From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Tue Jul 18 2000 - 12:56:58 MDT


HEADLINE: Doctors, Farmers, Environmentalists, Natural Food Store Owners, and
  Chefs to Demonstrate Against Genetically Engineered Foods

BODY:
      News Advisory:
      Note: Revised Advisory with Satellite Feed coordinates and photo
   opportunities.
      Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a coalition of consumer and health
   advocates, will launch its nationwide campaign against genetically
   engineered foods with press events in 22 locations including a Safeway
   grocery in Washington, D.C. Activists will demonstrate outside a local
   Safeway to inform customers about food corporations whose products contain
   genetically engineered (GE) ingredients and urge these companies to remove
   them immediately.
      HIGH PROFILE CORPORATIONS TO BE TARGETED AT THE EVENT
      Where:
      Safeway grocery store, 1855 Wisconsin Ave. NW
      When:
      July 19, 2000, 1 pm
      Who:
      David Wallinga, M.D., Physician and Senior Scientist, Inst. For
   Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP )
      Larry Bohlen, Director, Health and Environment Programs, Friends of
   the Earth
      John Friedrich, local organic food distributor food security activist
      PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES
      Six-foot tall stack of soup cans. Demonstrators with signs. Dumping of
   food in "biopollution" bins. March into store to return unwanted food.
      SATELLITE FEED: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 -- Two feed times:
      Date: Wednesday, July 19
      Time: 13:30-13:45 ET
      Satellite: Telstar 6, Transponder 12
      Satellite Type: C-Band
      Downlink Frequency: 3940
      Downlink Polarity: Horizontal
      Orbital Position: 93 degrees west
      Audio: 6.2. 6.8
      Date: Wednesday, July 19
      Time: 16:00-16:15 ET
      Satellite: Telstar 6, Transponder 12
      Satellite Type: C-Band
      Downlink Frequency: 3940
      Downlink Polarity: Horizontal
      Orbital Position: 93 degrees west
      Audio: 6.2. 6.8
   Mark Helm, 202-783-7400 ext 102 or Larry Bohlen, 202-783-7400 ext 251 both
of
  Friends of the Earth

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HEADLINE: Doctors, Farmers, Environmentalists, Natural Food Store Owners, and
  Chefs to Demonstrate Against Genetically Engineered Foods

BODY:
      News Advisory:
      Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a coalition of consumer and health
   advocates, will launch its nationwide campaign against genetically
   engineered foods with press events in 22 locations including a Safeway
   grocery in Washington, D.C. Activists will demonstrate outside a local
   Safeway to inform customers about food corporations whose products contain
   genetically engineered (GE) ingredients and urge these companies to remove
   them immediately.
      HIGH PROFILE CORPORATIONS TO BE TARGETED AT THE EVENT
      Where:
      Safeway grocery store, 1855 Wisconsin Ave. NW
      When:
      July 19, 2000, 1 pm
      Who:
      David Wallinga, M.D., Physician and Senior Scientist, Inst. For
   Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP )
      Larry Bohlen, Director, Health and Environment Programs, Friends of
   the Earth
      John Friedrich, local organic food distributor food security activist
   Mark Helm, 202-783-7400 ext 102 or Larry Bohlen, 202-783-7400 ext 251 both
of
  Friends of the Earth



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