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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 7d

🗣️Raise your voice for safe food & nature free from toxics!

The EU Commission wants to roll back vital food safety protections. We've 14 days to speak up.

Tell them the protection of our food, soil & water from toxics is a necessity. Tell them: #ProtectMyPlate 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...

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Save Our Seeds @saveourseeds.bsky.social · 2d

Once released, genetically engineered wildlife can’t be recalled.
Over 90 NGOs call for a global moratorium to protect biodiversity. 🌿

🤓 Learn more: www.engineeringnature.org
📢 Or sign here: www.saveourseeds.org/nature-is-no...

#IUCNCongress2025 #MoratoriumNow #NatureIsNotALaboratory

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 9d

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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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 27d

Respond to FSC consultation on new GMOs by 28th Sept! The biggest forest sustainability org is consulting on whether newer forms of GMOs should be considered GMOs. GM Freeze & others are urging groups to respond: www.gmfreeze.org/2025/09/11/a... #StopGETrees

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Sep 8

It would be tricky to convey the 3rd International Biodynamic Conference in words, so we've settled for some pictures. Thanks to the organisers for an inspiring event. gmfreeze.org/2025/09/05/3...
@demeterint.bsky.social @goetheanum-weekly.bsky.social
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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Sep 4

Seen Percy Vs. Goliath yet? Film about Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser's battle against Monsanto starring Christopher Walken and Christina Ricci t.co/HARgmwcV7i

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Sep 1

Exciting 2B gathered with people from across the world @ 3rd International Biodynamic Conference. From cloud forests in Ecuador to water from Namibia to stories from Stroud... Multiple keys unlocking multiple wisdoms, The elementals in full force. & it hasn’t even started yet!

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Aug 27

It's all about the undermining of science: Why the UK's legislation for new GMOs places biotech companies at a massive legal advantage, and health and the environment at risk. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/08/09/a...

GM Freeze | Group that advises on new GMOs tied in multiple knots

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Aug 27

Warning Over UK's New Genetically-Altered Food Rules as Deadline on New Law Looms – @bylinetimes.bsky.social Times bylinetimes.com/2025/08/04/w...

Warning Over UK's New Genetically-Altered Food Rules as Deadline on New Law Looms

Exclusive: Campaigners raise alarm as regulations allowing lab-altered crops in supermarkets from next year contain no limit on genetic modifications and 'weak' safeguards

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Beyond GM @beyond-gm.bsky.social · Jun 30

Beyond GM has sent a pre-action letter to Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed, putting the government on notice that we intend to pursue a judicial review of the Genetic Technology Regulations 2025. Read more and DONATE to our
@CrowdJusticeUK funder NOW. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Jun 26

Organic farmers & churches in Germany unite to highlight the risks of patenting genetic resources that are posed by the proposed deregulation of new GMOs in Europe.
www.organicseurope.bio/news/a-coali...

Call to end patents on seeds

A coalition of conventional and organic farmers call for an end to patents on seeds

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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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Save Our Seeds @saveourseeds.bsky.social · Jun 11

👀 Food labels give us the information we need to choose what we eat — including whether products contain GMOs. ✔️

💼 But EU politicians are considering scrapping labelling requirements for most #NewGMOs

✊ We call on them to defend our right to choose — all GMOs must remain labelled!

#NoGMOsInMyFood

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · Jun 11

👀 Food labels provide information that allows us to choose the food we want to eat, i.e. presence of GMOs.✔️

💼 But EU politicians are discussing ending the labelling of most #NewGMOs #NGTs ❌

✊ We demand that politicians defend our freedom of choice and keep all GMOs labelled!

#NoGMOsInMyFood

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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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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Jun 2

Genetic engineering recognised as false solution to climate change by leading Food Sovereignty organiser at a high-level forum hosted by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome on May 12th viacampesina.org/en/2025/05/c...

CFS Forum on Tackling Climate Change: Social Movements Raise Alarm About Corporate-Led ‘False Solutions’ to Climate and Ecological Crises

La Via Campesina and other members of the IPC firmly believe that redistributive land policies are a key solution to current food and ecological crises. The 2024 report by the UN High Commissioner for...

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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · May 19

New GMOs: freedom of choice only possible through mandatory labelling, warn 44 civil society organisations, Including GMWatch. Removing traceability and labelling of new (NGT) #GMOs undermines the fundamental rights of 450 million EU-citizens. www.foodwatch.org/fileadmin/-I...

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GMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · May 19

UK govt promises industry the govt will never find out if a “new GMO” harms health or environment. “The govt’s banning regulators from requiring any tests that could reveal risks arising from these gene-edited GMOs goes against every scientific principle.” — Prof Antoniou gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

UK government promises industry it will never find out if a “new GMO” harms health or environment

New legislation bans government from requiring any safety tests on a “precision bred” GMO that wouldn’t be done on a conventional plant or animal. By Claire Robinson

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · May 16

Happy to be in Athens for the international conference “Science and policy in times of multicrisis and dissent,” organised by the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility &the Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences.

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · May 9

GM Freeze newsletter: GenTech regulations pass House of Lords - mailchi.mp/gmfreeze/gen...
and a meeting exposes challenges and controversies

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Apr 17

Happy International Day of Peasant Struggle! As La Via Campesina observes: From Carajás to Gaza: Peasant Struggles Are Global — To Defend Land, Water, and Territories for Life! viacampesina.org/en/2025/04/f...

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Apr 28

Our Seeds, Our Life, Our Future: Promoting Farmer Managed Seed Systems and Resisting Repressive Seed Laws in Africa
@afsafrica.bsky.social Campaign aims to galvanize a continent-wide movement to resist the rising tide of corporate-driven, repressive seed laws. afsafrica.org/afsa-marks-i...

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Apr 22

ICYMI: @yougov.co.uk published poll that #DEFRA tried to keep secret, but which it (ironically) relied on to try and justify a lack of transparency around #NewGMOs theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/defra-trie... thanks @gmwatch.bsky.social for the spot!

Defra tries, fails to keep secret a poll used to justify legislation

Welcome to the 154th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which takes a look at an attempt by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to withhold polling information - and reveals...

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Apr 9

GM Freeze lodges complaint with DEFRA - its public consultation on the marketing of new GMO seeds is not for the public at all. www.gmfreeze.org/press-releas...

GM Freeze lodges complaint over DEFRA seed consultation

GM Freeze has today complained to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs about its consultation on the marketing of newer forms of genetically engineered seeds – those dubbed ‘pre…

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GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · Apr 4

House of Commons passes GenTech regulations without mentioning it, and the door is opening for unlabelled, untraceable and un-risk assessed new GMOs. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/04/04/g...

GenTech Regulations passed without a whisper

Leonie Nimmo reflects on the final stages of a process that will enable the wholesale release of new GMOs. What just happened? To an observer in the House of Commons that was interested in genetic …

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