Institute for Social Ecology
1118 Maple Hill Road,
Plainfield,
VT
05667
Phone 802-454-8493 |
Email info@social-ecology.org
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American Corn Growers Association
According to Food Labeling News, the Institute for Social Ecology and the American Corn Growers Association were part of a group of 25 environmental organizations that petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for mandatory biotech food labels in December 1999.
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Greenpeace
One recent string of property-damage crimes occurred when NorthEast RAGE (a project of the Institute for Social Ecology) organized a “peoples labeling brigade,” which went from grocery store to grocery store in New England placing permanent “biohazard” labels on foods that the activists thought might contain biotech ingredients. Greenpeace was among the institutional sponsors of this effort.
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The Institute for Social Ecology’s “NorthEast RAGE” project (particularly its chief rabble-rouser Brian Tokar) have been principally responsible for organizing the annual “biodevastation” protest events, including the 2001 event in San Diego and the 1999 anti-biotech protest in Seattle. At both of these events, officers from IATP answered questions at press events alongside Tokar. In Seattle, IATP’s Mark Ritchie and Brian Tokar appeared together on at least two occasions, and Ritchie’s Internet mailing lists (hosted at IATP) kept like-minded activists informed about the mayhem that ensued.
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Organic Consumers Association
When activists from the Institute for Social Ecology’s “NorthEast RAGE” project took it upon themselves to stick permanent “biohazard” labels on food all over New England grocery shelves in 2001, the Organic Consumers Association incited much of the resulting property damage. OCA head Ronnie Cummins officially lent his organization’s imprimatur to this unlawful vandalism, and also promoted the protest in advance on his group’s web site.
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Sierra Club
In 1999 the Sierra Club and the Institute for Social Ecology teamed up with other anti-biotech groups to demand that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration require warning labels on all genetically enhanced food products.
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Tides Foundation & Tides Center
The Tides Foundation hasn’t poured much money directly into the Institute for Social Ecology (ISE), but it does financially support literally dozens of other organizations that participate in ISE’s carefully orchestrated “BioDevastation” events. These annual “direct action” proceedings feature the world’s most high-profile anti-technology agitators, and generally result in an appreciable number of arrests as well.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
The Institute for Social Ecology belongs to the Genetic Engineering Action Network, along with the Union of Concerned Scientists, Greenpeace, and any number of neo-Luddites who oppose biotech foods.
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