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GMO-FREE EUROPE @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social · 9d

GM Freeze report on the problems with the UK’s new rules for new GMOs
#GMOs #GMFreeze

GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 10d

We have written to new top brass at DEFRA urging them to protect food producers, traders and the public from the risks of hidden new GMOs. www.gmfreeze.org/press-releas... See our new report for why the new legal framework fails to manage risks: www.gmfreeze.org/publications...

GM Freeze | A disaster by design: the UK’s new rules for new GMOs

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GMO-FREE EUROPE @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social · 22d

Wonder how a technology like new GMOs controlled via patents by the biggest pesticide corporations can be called sustainable
#GMOsAreNotGreen

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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 22d

Yes, without labelling along the entire food chain, the right to decide what to grow and what to eat will be lost. Keep new GMOs labelled! Renew: please stand up for the European Parliament position on labelling.

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IFOAM Organics Europe @organicseurope.bsky.social · 22d

Indeed, EU plant breeders & farmers face a framework on intellectual property rights that stifles innovation & harms biodiversity, especially w/increase of patented NGT plants.
👉More on legal solutions to reform biopatent laws & secure access to plant genetics www.martin-haeusling.eu/images/Legal...

www.martin-haeusling.eu

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European Non-GMO Industry Association @nongmoeurope.bsky.social · 22d

See ENGA background paper on NGT traceability, NGT labelling and NGT detection methods for more: www.enga.org/fileadmin/us...

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European Non-GMO Industry Association @nongmoeurope.bsky.social · 22d

On #NGTs we urge you to not sacrifice freedom of choice - both for consumers and for all business operators - for sustainability. Everyone has the right to know what’s in their food. #ICHOOSEGMOFREE

www.enga.org

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IFOAM Organics Europe @organicseurope.bsky.social · 22d

True! And not only consumers are worried, business are too! Last summer, 376 businesses from the European food industry signed a letter calling for rigorous #NGTs labelling in 🇪🇺. Learn more about the industry's concerns 📑👉 www.organicseurope.bio/news/europea...
#IchooseGMOfree

Europe's take on strict labelling and new genomic techniques

376 food businesses from 16 Member States, signed Food Industry for Freedom of Choice, calling for rigorous labelling of NGTs in Europe.

www.organicseurope.bio

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 22d

Indeed, farmers reject the EU-Mercosur agreement and the unfair competition it will bring to farmers in the EU and in Mercosur countries! But farmers also oppose the proposal to deregulate new genomic techniques, which want to impose patented GMOs without any traceability and labeling

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European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) @eurovia.org · 22d

This proposal is incompatible with farmers' rights on seeds, and would simply legalize biopiracy by allowing the extension of the scope of patents to native seeds. This will only benefit to patent-holding multinationals, at the expense of European farmers, small seed breeders and agrobiodiversity

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Biodynamic Federation Demeter International @demeterint.bsky.social · 22d

It is crucial to guarantee on-package labeling throughout the entire supply chain, from the field to the plate. The Parliament must not give up on labeling and traceability in the current #NGT negotiations. Support breeders, farmers, producers and consumers in their right to choose! #IChooseGMOFree

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Nina Holland @nina-holland.bsky.social · 22d

In addition, farmers are facing more problems: Scrapping safety rules for NGT crops will cause a flood of patented crops, harming farmers and benefiting a few big biotech corporations. #Nopatentonseeds
Dear Mr Canfin, as Shadow, will you strongly defend the EP position to opposing patents on crops?

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elisadaloisio.bsky.social @elisadaloisio.bsky.social · 22d

Indeed unwanted contamination will rapidly and repeatedly occur and it will be not reversible. As a geneticist and organic farmer, but more so as a mother feeding her children I cannot understand how this is not alarming and how it is not a political priority.

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Mute Schimpf @muteschimpf.bsky.social · 22d

Dear Mr. Canfin, our agriculture also needs protection from unwanted contamination from new GMOs. Please stand up for stand up for the @europarl.europa.eu’s position in Trilogue

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Mute Schimpf @muteschimpf.bsky.social · 22d

Dear Mr Canfin, please don’t bargain labelling of new GMOs for alleged sustainability. Our nature is in crisis and needs better from you.
New GMOs are part of a highly industrialised farming system and should not get any incentives by being falsely labeled as sustainable crops

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Save Our Seeds @saveourseeds.bsky.social · 22d

Genewatch UK has just released “Chimera: The Genetic Modification of Nature” — a major briefing ahead of the #IUCNcongress2025 warning about the risks of releasing GM organisms into the wild. 🌱

🤓 tinyurl.com/4459czr8

Re-designing nature isn’t the same as protecting it. The stakes are huge.

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Slow Food @slowfoodhq.bsky.social · 22d

📢 To French speakers:

We highly recommend "OMG, Decoding Biotech", @infogm.bsky.social's new #podcast investigating the promises & risks of biotechnologies (like #newGMOs).

Available on all platforms!👇

#biotech #GMOs #NGT

Inf'OGM @infogm.bsky.social · 23d

Et si on refaisait vivre le #mammouth laineux pour sauver la planète ? @infogm.bsky.social lance son nouveau #podcast d’enquête sur les #biotechs. Écoutez "OMG, Décodons les Biotech" sur toutes les plateformes de podcast : podcast.ausha.co/omg-decodons...

OMG : décodons les biotech | Ausha

Le podcast OMG, décodons les biotech relate des enquêtes sur des biotechnologies encore méconnues. Ces dernières concernent aujourd'hui bien plus que les plantes génétiquement modifiées qui ont défray...

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GMO-FREE EUROPE @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social · 22d

Without labelling along the food chain, consumers will loose their right to decide what they eat. Keep new GMOs labelled. Renew: stand up for the EP position on labelling.
#IchooseGMOfree

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GMO-FREE EUROPE @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social · 22d

Dear Mr Canfin, can we rely that you, as Shadow, will defend the EP’s position to maintain traceability along for all generations of GMOs?

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Jun 26

The anti-greenwash directive risks becoming the latest victim of the ever expanding EU #deregulation wave

The Commission announced it would withdraw the directive - and then changed position. But rightwing governments, MEPs and industry lobbies now smell blood

➡️ corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory

Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...

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GMO-FREE EUROPE @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social · Jun 23

New website debunking #GMO promises - 8 case studies @saveourseeds.bsky.social @gmwatch.bsky.social @beyond-gm.bsky.social

Save Our Seeds @saveourseeds.bsky.social · Jun 23

🌾 Bitter harvest 🌾
30 years after the first GMO crops hit the fields, their promises - like feeding the world & cutting chemicals - mostly failed. Our new website exposes 8 broken biotech promises. Time for a fairer food system✊
👉 gmopromises.org

#GMOs #NoNewGMOs #agriculture #natureconservation

A collage of headlines and quotes promoting the proclaimed benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops and genetic engineering. Text snippets include statements such as “Genetic engineering could ‘reverse the Silent Spring scenario’,” “Millions served – While the West debates the ethics of genetically modified food, Florence Wambugu is using it to feed her country,” and “GMO golden rice could save 40,000 lives a day, people that are malnourished and dying.” Other phrases emphasize medical and agricultural benefits like “Purple tomato can beat cancer,” “Genetic engineering could make crops resistant to a wide range of diseases,” and “The vilification of genetically modified crops could jeopardize efforts to feed the world’s growing population.” One quote reads, “Protest against GM crops are a crime against humanity.” The background is styled with torn-paper textures.

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GMO-FREE EUROPE @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hundreds of activists marched on June 14 in Parma for the demonstration against #newGMOs / #NBTs organized by the Cambiare il Campo network.
It was an important step in the ongoing struggle against the deregulation @cicrocevia.bsky.social
Read more on www.gmo-free-regions.org/countries/it...

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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hundreds of people, including @cicrocevia.bsky.social, took to the streets in Parma over the weekend to protest against the proposed deregulation of new #GMOs (NGTs). They oppose all attempts to remove traceability, labelling, and risk assessment for genetically modified and patented lab organisms.

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GMO-FREE EUROPE @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social · Jun 17

The first demonstration on new GMOs in Parma on Saturday 14 June 2025.
A few hundreds of people participated. Reported by @cicrocevia.bsky.social #NoGMOsInMyFood
#NoGMOsInMyField
www.gmo-free-regions.org/countries/it...

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POLLINIS @pollinis.org · Jun 11

🔍 L’étiquetage alimentaire est essentiel pour informer les consommateurs sur la présence d’#OGM ✔️

❌ Mais l’UE envisage de supprimer l’étiquetage des #NouveauxOGM (#NTG #NGT) !

✊ Défendons notre droit à l'information : exigeons le maintien de l’étiquetage OGM !

#NoGMOsInMyFood

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Nature & Progrès Belgique @natprobe.bsky.social · Jun 11

L’étiquetage alimentaire est indispensable pour informer les conso et leur permettre de savoir si un aliment contient des #OGM
Les élus discutent de la fin de l'étiquetage des #NTG !
Nous exigeons que nos élus défendent notre liberté de choix et maintiennent l'étiquetage des OGM !

#NoGMOsInMyFood

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