Polish Organizations
Zwiazek Zawodowy Rolnictwa Sambroona
(Farmers’ Union “Self-Defence”)
The farmers’ union Sambroona initiated an anti-Smithfield campaign in 2000, supporting the Animal Welfare Institute with a Poland-wide distribution of 8.000 videotapes featuring a Trojan pig documentary. A second anti-Smithfield film has been released by this farmers’ union. Sambroona continues the resistance against the Smithfield corporation in Warsaw and in other rural areas of Poland.
Contact: samoobrona@samoobrona.org.pl
OKP NSZZ RI “Solidarnosc”
(National Independent Farmers’ Union “Solidarnosc”)
(No website)
This farmers’ union is reputed in Poland for its tough stance against factory farming and genetically modified foods and seeds. One of the union’s activists, Marian Zagorny, is well-known for his unconventional forms of protest.
Contact: Marian Zagorny can be contacted by phone or by postal mail at:
Tel: +48 75 75 256 72
Fax: +48 75 75 330 92
Mobile: +48 0602 58 22 15
58-500 Jelena Gora
Ul. Wojska Polskiego 18 p. 305
Stowarzyszenie Ochrony Zdrowia Konsumentów
(Association of Consumers’ Health Protection)
This consumers association aims at protecting consumers’ health and rights in Poland.
Contact: zdrowie@halat.pl (Zbigniew Halat)
ICPPC – International Coalition to Protect the Polish CountrysideThe ICPPC has been a leading voice in increasing social awareness about the importance and value of family farming as well as in the creation of sustainable farming solutions that would alleviate the destructive results of the EU’s current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
The ICPPC opposes both the practises of industrial agriculture applied by transnational seeds and chemicals corporations, and the involvement of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in agriculture.
The ICPPC is a non-partisan organisation ready to work with other groups whose goal is to promote and protect the Polish countryside and small family farms.
Contact: biuro@iccpc.pl (Jadwiga Łopata)
Also check out the IPCCP’s Ecocentre at: http://www.eko-cel.pl/eng/index.php
Ekoland
Ekoland is an association of ecological food producers whose goal is to promote organic agriculture and healthy food. Ekoland supports the preservation of the natural environment and sustainable farming.
Contact: biobabalscy@poczta.onet.pl (Mieczyslaw Babalski)
Zielona Polska
(Green Poland)
Zielona Polska is devoted to raising awareness about the dangers linked to the spread of industrial livestock operations, GMOs and the so-called “new agricultural technologies” in Poland and worldwide. Zielona Polska works to promote humanitarian animal farming and to reform the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
Contact: j.duszynski@rsepliz.most.org.pl (Jurek Duszynski)
Niedmodlinski Klub Ekologiczny
(Ecological Club Niedmodlin)
(No website)
This ecological club is very active in opposing factory farming in Poland. Its activities are concentrated mostly in south-west Poland, although this ecological club also supports other initiatives against factory farming throughout Poland.
Contact: agatarybczynksa@tien.pl (Agata Rybczynska)
Stowarzyszenie Wiejskie “Zielona Przestrzen”
(Rural Association “Green Space”)
This is a civil society association whose goal is to ensure sustainable development of rural areas. The association also promotes a healthy lifestyle and environmental awareness. It supports initiatives to preserve the natural and cultural heritage of rural areas.
Contact: info@zielona.org (Gosia Kowalska)
Miedzynarodowa Unia Ochrony Przyrody - IUCN
(The World Conservation Union)
This union works on issues such as environmental protection, agricultural landscape and family farming in Poland and the world. The IUCN’s Polish National Committee is located at the Institute for Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow.
Contact: tzajac@iop.krakow.pl (Tadeusz Zajac)
Instytut Ochrony Zwierzat
(Animal Welfare Institute)
The Animal Welfare Institute in Poland is a leading organisation defending the rights of farm animals, especially pigs living in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The institute supports a sustainable farm of the Barka Foundation (in Chudopczyce near Pniewy) with its programme of humanitarian pig farming – much needed in Poland as a viable alternative to factory farming.
Contact: mkryda@wp.pl (Marek Kryda)
