The Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering (Farmer to Farmer)
is a network of 34 farm organizations from throughout the United States
that endorsed the Farmer Declaration on Genetic Engineering released in
December 1999. Farmer to Farmer seeks to build a farmer driven campaign
focused on the risks of genetic engineering in agriculture and to
provide a national forum for farmer action on agricultural biotechnology
issues.
Farmer to Farmer accomplishes these goals by:
• Publishing educational materials and conducting workshops on the
agronomic, economic and legal liabilities that genetic engineering poses
for family farmers and rural communities,
• Conducting trainings to develop farmer leaders and spokespersons on
genetic engineering, farm policy and trade issues,
• Providing strategy, media, public policy development and fundraising
assistance to farm groups organizing grassroots campaigns on genetic
engineering issues, and
• Developing collaborations with national and international
environmental, consumer and faith-based organizations to support farmer
driven campaigns on genetic engineering issues.
Farmer to Farmer is working with farm, environmental and consumer groups
on campaigns to:
• Establish strict economic, environmental and public health standards
prior to commercialization of genetically engineered wheat,
• Prohibit the commercialization of genetically engineered rice,
• Ban biopharmaceuticals in food crops, and
• Enact policies that require genetically engineered seeds and foods to
be labeled and that create industry liability for contamination to
farms, food and the environment by genetically engineered crops.
For more information contact Bill Wenzel, National Director, Farmer to
Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering, P.O. Box 272, Stoughton, WI
53589, (877) 968-3276, bwenzel2@aol.com
