Activists have for many years participated in actions around harbours all around Japan. They collect and test wild-growing canola along roads and near food oil factories. The import of Genetically Modified canola, which started in the late 1990s, led to GM plants growing wild, an unintentional effect that poses a risk to the biodiversity of similar plants. Canola is a member of the Brassica genus and many other edible plants are grown in Japan, thus increasing the risk that cross-contamination will occur of related foods like cabbage or broccoli. In 2006, the government started taking an interest in this issue, after intense lobbying by CUJ and the No! GMO Campaign,…
Questionnaire Regarding Vaccination Against COVID-19
CUJ has submitted the following questionnaire to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Mr. Katsunobu Kato. On 31 July 2020, your ministry announced that it had reached a basic agreement with Pfizer Inc. of the United States to supply 60 million people with a new coronavirus vaccine by June of next year, if the vaccine is successful. Your ministry also announced on 7 August that it had reached an agreement in principle with AstraZeneca of the United Kingdom to receive 120 million doses of the vaccine, if successful, by early next year. Developed countries are working to secure the vaccine, and your ministry is actively working to secure it.…
Japan Resources – 178
Please click here for our latest English newsletter: CUJ-JR-178 We hope you will continue to stay updated with CUJ’s activities and news on our English website, and support our campaigns! Contents: From the Editors: Stay Tuned for More to Come! Request to Stop Using Pre-harvest Glyphosate on Soybeans CUJ Blog: What is the Future of Japanese Agriculture? CUJ Supports “Defend Our Rice, Fight for Our Rights” Campaign Across Asia Request for Opinion Exchange on Genome-Editing Foods Over 9000 People Replied to CUJ’s Questionnaire About Fragrances Campaign Against Railway Glyphosate Use
Request to Stop Using Pre-harvest Glyphosate on Soybeans
To: JA Toyama Prefecture From: No! GMO Campaign Consumers Union of Japan 25 August 2020 Request to stop using pre-harvest glyphosate on soybeans We are a consumer organization working for food safety. We are engaging in a number of initiatives to oppose genetically modified foods and genome-edited foods and demand prudent use of the herbicides and pesticides associated with them. In recent years, we have strengthened our monitoring of glyphosate…
CUJ Blog: What is the Future of Japanese Agriculture?
Every year at this time of the year, I feel depressed. It’s the time of year when aerial pesticide spraying for rice stink bug control takes place. After a few years of living in rural areas, I’ve seen one aspect of the dwindling number of farmers. They have to rely on aerial spraying to save labor. There are many elderly people who don’t want to use herbicides who can’t cope with the vigorous growth of weeds, so they are dependent on them. Not only in the town where I live, but also in neighboring towns and villages, young people are leaving for the big cities, and those who are engaged…