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
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
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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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