How can we avoid eating genetically modified (GM) foods? Our petition campaign which started in 2015 has generated a lot of interest all over Japan, and we are collecting more and more signatures from people telling us that they strongly support the call for GM labels. This is the second round of our effort to show politicians and the government that all GM foods should be labelled properly. We will hold a meeting on October 7, 2016 at the Japanese Parliament in Nagatacho, Tokyo. Invited speakers will discuss the background and outline the threat to the consumers’ right to know, as the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) will make it…
Stop Using Antibiotics for Farm Animals: Questionnaire
Report: The Message from Consumers in Japan: Stop using Antibiotics at Animal Farms! – We asked fast food companies to reply to our questionnaire – July 20, 2016 “The antibiotics won’t work…” Isn’t it rather unbelievable to hear about such a crisis for modern medicine? If no action is taken, resistance to antibiotics and similar drugs (antimicrobial resistance) will cause 300 million deaths a year globally by 2050. Massive overuse of antibiotics has increased the growth of antibiotic resistant bacteria. Whilst over-consumption of antibiotics in human medicine is a huge problem, what is less well known is that around half of the world’s antibiotics are consumed by farm animals. In…
Email Campaign: Antibiotics Off The Menu
Participate in our new campaign! Together with Consumers International and Do Gooder, you can send emails to McDonald’s, Subway and Kentucky Fried Chicken, telling them to stop feeding antibiotics routinely to farm animals like cattle, pigs and chicken. Click here: Save Antibiotics Campaign Japan
Global Focus on Fighting against Antibiotic Resistance
Consumers International and its Members will be continuing to build pressure on KFC, McDonald’s and Subway in the run-up to the UN high level meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, to be held in New York this September. “McDonald’s and Yum! Brands (the parent company for KFC) have been holding their annual general meetings (AGMs) in May, 2016. Consumers International (CI) used both of these meetings to put pressure on the two companies to make global commitments on ending the use of antibiotics in their meat supply chains,” explains Amanda Long, director of CI. Amanda Long says, “We will also be launching a pilot digital action with a number of our Members.…
Japan Resources – No 164
Please click here: CUJ-JR-164 for the latest issue of Consumer Union of Japan’s English newsletter, Japan Resources (pdf). The theme this time is to highlight the 20th anniversary of the No! GMO Campaign. Contents: From the Editors: Japan’s Anti-GMO Campaign Event: Petition Campaign for Better Labelling of Genetically Modified Food Event: Supporting Japanese Non-GM Soybeans From Bio Journal: GMO-Free Zone National Conference Held in Sendai Ministry of the Environment releases a draft of its revised Cartagena Law 20 Years of Anti-GMO Work Newsflash: Five Years after the Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima Epidemiological Studies Show a Rapid Increase in the Occurrence Rates of Thyroid Cancer