"Unnecessary, unwanted and unsafe"—Our Exec Director Leonie on BBC Today programme this week highlighting the risks of GM purple tomatoes... and the inability of developers @johninnescentre.bsky.social to make any health claims. www.gmfreeze.org/2026/02/05/g...

"The GMO industry is based on a unique economy: that of the eternally renewed promise." Excellent @lemonde.fr article on empty promises of the GM industry, that has skyrocketed chemical use in agriculture and now poses new & unique risks, e.g. robot-ready plants, ref @testbiotech.bsky.social

Important article from @gmwatch.bsky.social on a recent study highlighting the risks of outdoor genetic engineering and the potential impacts on non-target species—including humans

Israeli military raids Palestinian seed bank - 8 people abducted & equipment & resources for food security and Food Sovereignty destroyed or stolen - including Palestinian heritage seeds. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/12/04/i...

Our Exec Director Leonie was at the Gaia Foundation's Seed Gathering in Wales at the weekend, spreading the word about new GMOs: www.youtube.com/live/p5h3cyz..., time code 36:30 & at the closing plenary: www.youtube.com/live/c7GLY7c..., time code 29:40. Thanks 2 Seed Sovereignty team!

Looking forward 2 launch of Mutant Ecologies Mon @housmansbookshop.bsky.social Looks fascinating - a "critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing and the biotech industry..." housmans.com/event/autono...

🗣️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...

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

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...

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

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 @goetheanum-de.bsky.social

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

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!

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...

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...

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...

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...

🌾 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

👀 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

👀 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

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...

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...

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...

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/...

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.

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

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...

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...

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!

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...

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...

UK government hold public consultation whether or not it will label seeds of new GMOs following the deregulation of new GMOs in 2023. Groups are mobilising public response to challenge this latest threat of GM seeds www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... 📸: @landworkersuk.bsky.social

“As the impacts of climate change become more severe, African countries must look inward—to our cultures, ecosystems, & indigenous knowledge—for solutions,” quote of day - Simon Bukenya, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa @afsafrica.bsky.social @ launch of report afsafrica.org/afsa-launche...

Two weeks to go! Tell DEFRA you want to know If the seeds you buy are new GMO consult.defra.gov.uk/defra-aphw-p... More info: www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l...

"Only through a vast programme of agroecology, land redistribution and the re-localisation of food systems can we effectively build carbon back into the soils and cut emissions in the food system." Our quote of the day goes to GRAIN, grain.org/en/article/6... bsky.app/profile/grai...

🍔Heard about the Impossible Burger? It ‘bleeds’ like beef, but it’s made in a lab with genetically modified yeast & soy 🧪 It's now pushed for direct human consumption in the 🇪🇺 when we have so many better plant-based alternatives! Explore our cool infographic 👇 friendsoftheearth.eu/impossible-b...

Stand up for Seed Sovereignty and tell government new GMO seeds must be labelled! www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... More info on the removal of controls over new GMOs: www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/20/t...

"Dark day for Europe" as it jumps over major hurdle towards the deregulation of new GMOs: Council agrees position, opening door 4 negotiations w Parliament & Commission. At stake is labelling, risk assessment, patents & control over Europe's food supply. C thread 4 reports fm allies. Fight not over.

👇 Recommended reading: EU Observer on deregulation of new GMOs. 'We have a feeling [that] many things are going through by force; our impression was [that there was] an intention to push it down our throats without proper work done beforehand', said an EU diplomat euobserver.com/green-econom...

This may be of interest @vickihird.bsky.social? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nest-10-fa...

‪Mute Schimpf‬ ‪@muteschimpf.bsky.social‬ Who really benefits from new genomic techniques? Farmers and consumers at risk. Look also at our series Who benefits from the deregulation of New GMOs friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...

This looks amazing www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil

Report from Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) reveals African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCTA) will marginalize smallholders, deepen food and nutrition insecurity, erode seed biodiversity, & entrench corporate control over Africa’s food and seed systems. afsafrica.org/new-report-a...

Bayer, Cargill & Microsoft working together in India to "influence farmer decisions on what to plant, what inputs to use and how to sell their crops" Article outlining how monopoly control over farm data will lead to increasing control over India's small farmers www.localfutures.org/techno-feuda...

Consumers Union of Japan (CUJ) sent an open letter to European Commission @ec.europa.eu and European governments asking for mandatory biodiversity impact assessments, food safety confirmation, traceability, and labeling for all GMOs, including genome-edited organisms. www.nishoren.org/en/?p=3206

MASIPAG (Farmer-Scientist Partnership for Development) in the Philippines published an open letter to @ec.europa.eu and European governments asking to uphold stringent GMO regulations to protect food safety, biodiversity, and democratic decision-making in food systems. masipag.org/from-the-phi...

"Inside the US federal scientific community, we are not hopeful. As members of the science, medical, & public health community, we worry about our global community as we see preventable deaths stacking up abroad & across the US—esp among most vulnerable." www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r294

Important article from @testbiotech.bsky.social on the dangers of the combination of #NewGMOs, #patents #AI and aggressive forms of capitalism: Could just one NGT company take control of all plant breeding? www.testbiotech.org/en/news/coul...

These #GMO algae could be deregulated by the @ec.europa.eu, as they will undergo #genetic modification to be transformed into facilities for #pharmaceutics, #cosmetics, #food and #agrofuels. First dive into an unnoticed world. infogm.org/en/gmo-algae... @gmwatch.bsky.social @gm-freeze.bsky.social

200+ orgs call on EU to stop the deregulation of #NewGMOs - essential for seed heritage, biodiversity and a climate-resilient food system not controlled by a few powerful companies. Protect small & medium #nonGMO plant breeders & farmers tinyurl.com/32chmk5c/ @organicseurope.bsky.social