Cancunnine - against bad deals

Wendel Trio, our campaigner from Belgium, came with a unique product to soothe the upset caused by bad trade deals.

The Belgian Greenpeace office came up with a product that was presented to the EU and Belgian government delegations as they checked in for their flight to the WTO meeting here.

It's called Cancunnine, and it's meant to help the delegates avoid making bad deals while at the meeting.

On the package it says:

A box of Cancunnine at the Greenpeace office in Cancun.

"Cancunnine helps you in an ecologically sound way to prevent bad deals which harm the environment, threaten sustainable development, neglect workers' rights and work against the poor. It should prevent the delegates of broadening the mandate of the WTO at the meeting in Cancun."

On the other side of the box:

"Cancunnine prevents government delegates cutting bad deals for the environment in Cancun.
Use: take one tablet a day and every time you feel the onset of a bad deal. Please take with a glass of non-privatised water. Patent free - keep away from pharmaceuticals.
Store outside of green rooms."

Inside the box was a shortened version of our guide to avoiding bad deals.(PDF, 25K)