Die Chemieindustrie wird sich über diese Zahlen freuen, Verbraucher nicht: Aus einer vom EinkaufsNetz in Auftrag gegebenen Untersuchung geht hervor, dass seit 2001 die Grenzwerte von 33 besonders gefährlichen Spritzmitteln erhöht wurden.

Die Folge der Anhebung liegt auf der Hand: giftige Pestizide finden sich in immer höheren Mengen völlig legal in unseren Lebensmitteln wieder. Das alarmierende dieser Untersuchung ist, dass sich darunter Gifte befinden, die besonders gefährlich für Mensch und Umwelt sind. So wurde z.B. der Grenzwert für das Insektizid Methomyl, das die EU als hormonell wirksam beschreibt, um das 10 bis 20fache erhöht. Auf Tomaten, Zitronen, Mandarinen und Pflaumen darf sich das Mittel also um ein Vielfaches wiederfinden, bevor wir die Früchte essen.

Greenpeace fordert deshalb Frau Künast heute auf, sich dafür einzusetzen, dass diese Stoffe verboten werden.

Für euch haben wir einen neuen Protest-Brief verfasst,
zu dem ihr hier kommt:

http://de.einkaufsnetz.org/kampagnen/gift_im_essen/15386.html

Bitte beachtet: Ihr könnt gern euren persönlichen Text mit einfügen. Schreibt Verbraucherministerin Künast, warum ihr euch von dem Thema betroffen fühlt. Individuelle Briefe zeigen mehr Wirkung. Mehr Infos zum Thema sowie die Untersuchung findet ihr hier:

http://de.einkaufsnetz.org/kampagnen/gift_im_essen


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18 May 2005

Tomorrow marks a critical day in Congress: the day global warming legislation is introduced. But there's nuclear fallout to an otherwise good bill - that's right, instead of setting strong limits on global warming pollution from power plants, Senator McCain plans to add massive subsidies for new nuclear power plants.

24 Hours to Stop a Nuclear Disaster
http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=48&ref_source=newsletter051805

Apparently Senator McCain doesn't understand the risks. Nuclear plants are sitting ducks for terrorist attacks and there is no safe way to store nuclear waste. We need your help today to stop the Senate from nuking this landmark global warming bill.

TAKE ACTION NOW!
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=15872291&url_num=3&url=http://usactions.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=48&ref_source=newsletter051805

Limiting our global warming pollution combined with strong incentives for renewable sources and energy efficiency, is the real solution to meet our energy needs.

Please take action now and tell your Senators to "knock the nukes" out of the McCain Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act. It is vitally important that we stop the nuclear industry from poisoning the most important piece of global warming legislation being debated in Congress today.


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New York City. 16 May 2005--Forest ministers from around the world will gather today to discuss the future of the forests at the start of the Fifth Conference of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) at the UN's headquarters in New York. Greenpeace is calling on governments to bring an end to the UNFF talk-shop which to date has done nothing to protect the forests nor the communities or the biodiversity that they house and create a legally binding agreement that will ensure the protection of the world's last remaining ancient forests.

Since the UN Summit on Environment and Development in Rio in 1992, the loss of the world's last ancient forests continues at alarming rates. During the last 13 years the world lost an area of forest greater than the size of France, Spain, Sweden and Germany combined.

The many international meetings by governments to address this issue, including the UNFF, have so far proved to be ineffective, unproductive and a major financial drain of public money.

Greenpeace is urging the international community to focus their efforts instead on the adoption of a legally binding Protocol on forests under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which has a much stronger track record in making agreements that are in the interests of local communities, indigenous peoples and biodiversity.

This agreement should establish measures that will help governments achieve the global goal set by the World Summit on Sustainable Development 10 years after Rio to reduce and halt the loss of forest biodiversity by 2010, by facilitating new money to fund forest conservation and ecologically responsible forest management as well as regulating the uncontrolled international timber trade.

The last ancient forests in both the North and the South, contain over two third of the world's terrestrial biodiversity. Biodiversity loss is a global concern, which requires global action. International trade from producer to consumer regions is a key factor causing this forest crisis. A strong, effective, fair and legally binding multilateral environmental agreement is essential to help address this problem.

"The current crisis facing the world's ancient forests, such as accelerating rates of species loss and deforestation, requires immediate attention and strong political will to shift the devastating trend," said Martin Kaiser, Greenpeace International Forests Campaigner. "Forest dependent peoples do not need any more recycling of "nice" words on 'UN paper'. World leaders need to take their cue from the Kyoto Protocol and create a similar legally binding agreement for the last Ancient Forests."


For more information

Martin Kaiser, Greenpeace International Forests Campaigner, +49 171 8780 817

Gina Sanchez, Greenpeace International Communications, +31 627 00 00 64


Gina Sanchez
Acting Chief Media Officer
Greenpeace International
Office: +31 20 718 2051


Informant: STRIDER

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/whaleembassyalert

Take action! Ask the mayor of Ulsan to do the right thing and not build the whale meat factory.

http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=1770&s=gen2


Source: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/ebulletin/16052005.htm

We urgently need your help to protect our activists in Korea and stop a whale meat factory from being built.

Click here to take action now!
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/6937.1584613.5409

As many of you know, we recently uncovered plans by the city of Ulsan in South Korea to build a factory for butchering whales. We immediately set up a camp near the site to expose the plan and oppose it with our presence: we called it our Whale Embassy.

The city council is highly embarrassed by our presence, and has tried every way they can to shut us down and shut us up. Yesterday they gave us an official eviction notice with a DEADLINE OF THIS MONDAY, MAY 16TH to take down our geodesic dome tent, remove our educational exhibits about whales, and get out of the way.

We've said we'll be happy to leave -- just as soon as the city cancels the plans for the whale factory.

Click here to take action now!
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/6938.1584613.5409

Whale campaigner Jim Wickens says: "It is quite clear that they want to stifle any criticism of their plans to build the factory... We have told them that any attempts to evict us forcibly will reflect very badly on their international image."

There have already been several attempts at intimidation, official and unofficial. According to Wickens: "Last night at four in the morning four local fishermen turned up looking for trouble, luckily there were others awake to come and help. We have been tipped off that in Korea in sensitive political protests, the authorities sometimes hire thugs to do the dirty work. There is a distinct possibility that they may do this in the form of fake fishermen coming to beat us up, or even inflaming local fishermen to actually do it for them."

The factory Jim and his fellow activists are opposing will be used to process whales which have been "accidentally" killed by entanglement in fishing nets. In reality, there's nothing accidental about these killings. Fishing fleets around the world report annually how many whales they kill by accidentally nettings, and this usually amounts to one or two whales for an entire nation's fleet. In Korea, which allows the sale of meat from accidental kills and where a whale carcass can be worth $100,000, the annual kill rate can be up to a 100 times that.

The picture at left is of an "accidentally" caught juvenile minke whale, which we witnessed butchered and sold for $30,000.

The man with the power to protect our activists AND stop the whale factory is the town's mayor, Mr. Park Maeng-woo. Unfortunately, the mayor is being pressured by fisherman and local businessmen, like the deputy vice president of Hyundai corporation, who strongly support building the factory. If Mr. Park Maeng-woo is to make a balanced decision, he needs all the facts. He needs to know that the world is watching, and that people who don't want to see whales killed for commerce are paying attention to what he does about our activists and the factory.

Please, time is very short: send a message right now to Mr. Park Maeng-woo and let him know we want our activists protected and we want the whale factory stopped.

Click here to take action now!
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/6939.1584613.5409

Did you know that of the approximately 2000 nuclear weapons ready for use in the world today, nearly 500 of them are stored on air bases in Europe ( Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Italy and the UK)? The weapons in Europe belong to the United States and Greenpeace is targeting them as part of its global campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.

The campaign started two weeks ago in Belgium and is moving to Turkey on 16 May when we will open a Peace Embassy outside Incirlik airbase where 90 of these nuclear weapons stored.

Incirlik peace embassy
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/6856.1575276.5409

Bombspotting: Eyes of Mass Inspection
http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/6857.1575276.5409

Greenpeace Russia is asking for help from the international cyberactivist community.

The Russian Government has given permission to build what will be the world's longest pipeline, running 4,188km (2,602 miles) from central Siberia to the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan.

The pipeline's end point, the oil terminal, will be built in Southwest Primorye that is a home to over a quarter of Russia's endangered species, including the Amur (Siberian) tiger and the 30 last remaining Amur leopards. The terminal will also threaten the Far East Marine Biosphere Reserve - Russia's only marine reserve with the status of UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

http://prefs.greenpeace.org/mail-links/clicks/6864.1575276.5409

Pestizid-Rückstände im Essen haben wir schon lange satt. Und wer sich ein bisschen mit der Thematik auseinandersetzt, weiß: Die Belastungen im Obst und Gemüse steigen weiter an. Wirklich empfehlenswert sind nur Bio-Produkte. Der Anteil von Bio-Produkten am Markt wächst, macht jedoch insgesamt nach wie vor einen kleinen Teil aus. Jährlich werden in Deutschland rund 30 000 Tonnen Pestizide auf die Äcker gebracht.

Die EU-Kommission will nun den Einsatz von Pestiziden neu regeln. Dazu gibt es eine Umfrage im Internet, an der alle Betroffenen teilnehmen können. Die Ergebnisse der Umfrage fließen in die neue Strategie zur nachhaltigen Nutzung von Pestiziden mit ein. Wir sind der Meinung, dass so viele Verbraucher wie möglich an der Umfrage teilnehmen sollten, obwohl der EU-Fragebogen ziemlich kompliziert gehalten ist. Trotzdem sollten wir versuchen, mit solchen Instrumenten die EU-Politik zu beeinflussen. Die Umfrage findet ihr hier:

http://europa.eu.int/yourvoice/forms/dispatch?form=399&lang=DE

Um euch eine Hilfestellung beim Verstehen der Fachsprache zu bieten, haben wir Antwort-Vorschläge erstellt. So würde das EinkaufsNetz-Team antworten:

http://de.einkaufsnetz.org/kampagnen/gift_im_essen

Wir hoffen auf rege Beteiligung, damit sich kritische Verbraucherstimmen in der Umfrage widerspiegeln. Bitte schickt uns eine kurze Nachricht, wenn ihr an der Umfrage teilgenommen habt. Dadurch können wir abschätzen, wie groß die Beteiligung ist:

einkaufsnetz@greenpeace.de


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einkaufsnetz@greenpeace.de
EinkaufsNetz
Greenpeace e.V.
Grosse Elbstrasse 39
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http://www.einkaufsnetz.org
Tel. + 49 40 30618-357
Fax + 49 40 30618-130

I pledge to take steps with Greenpeace to fight global warming and call on President Bush, world leaders, Congress and my community to join the fight.

http://usa2.greenpeace.org/action/start.php?action_id=44&usa_source_template=thin_ice