📰 #PressRelease | #OrganicsEurope condemns the counterproductive weakening of pesticide rules in the Food & Feed Safety Omnibus, released today, and calls on MEPs and Member States to refocus the debate on biocontrol only. 🌱 👉 Read more: www.organicseurope.bio/news/food-an...

At yesterday's #NGTs trilogue a provisional deal has been reached that carries major shortcomings. Missing safeguards on patents & traceability put EU food sovereignty at risk. #OrganicEU calls on Parliament to fix this agreement. Read more in our PR www.organicseurope.bio/news/ngt-tri...

Is the topic of new GMO so controversial that it brings the @europarl.europa.eu website down? www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres... Any this is not about green transition, this is about more power for #BigAg and abolished farmers' and consumers' rights

Fantastic news from Brussels! And organisations in the Nordic countries sent an open letter to their MEPs yesterday demanding GMO labelling. #NoHiddenGMOs

And a huge shout-out to all the people who signed and to the NGOs who helped to make this signatures visible today 💚

🍿Watch the short films for free here vimeo.com/1137871575 and here www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrzK...

🎥Two Danish short films are asking the questions Brussels would rather skip Right now, the EU is negotiating whether to deregulate gene-edited plants – current proposals are without risk assessment and no labeling on food. 🕵️ These films take a step back and ask: Do we actually need this? ✨🌻

📅 On the eve of the final trilogue on the NGTs legislation, our President, Jan Plagge, calls on policymakers at the table to defend the rights of farmers & breeders. 📘However, the study released today by the EU Commission fails to address the patent issue: ow.ly/UOLv50XAOAn

We urge EU co-legislators to ensure: ✅ Risk assessment, labelling & traceability for all #NGTs ✅ Protection of farmers’ & breeders’ #SeedRights ✅ Policies that prioritise diversity, resilience & long-term food security 👇Europe needs transparency, precaution & fairness🌱 🧵 3/3

It is the @eppgroup.bsky.social rapporteur who doesn't want to advocate for Parliament's position in the negotiations. So far Council hasn't given anything to the @europarl.europa.eu at all. No labelling, no transparency, no breeders or farmers' rights on patents.

African Centre for Biodiversity and MELCA-Ethiopia, convened a two-day workshop in Addis Ababa to reaffirms a strong call for the protection of centres of origin and diversity crops from the onslaught of genetic engineering in Africa. Read the declaration 👉🏽 acbio.org.za/gm-biosafety...

The African Centre for Biodiversity celebrates a landmark win against the govt of South Africa for approving MON 87460, a GM maize produced by Monsanto/Bayer. The final ruling puts an end to "the rubber-stamping of GMO approvals" and upholds SA's biosafety law. acbio.org.za/gm-biosafety...

🍅 Classical breeding ≠ patentable invention! #NoPatentsOnSeed calls for legal clarity to stop patents on conventional breeding & protect biodiversity, farmers, and food security 🌱 👉 Read the article on BioEcoActual: 🔗https://www.bioecoactual.com/en/2025/10/21/safeguard-patent-free-zone-europe/

Thank you for summarising what we are losing without strong rules and agile civil society, I start falling in love with your assessments of lawmakers deregulation agenda. Please read this oped and share euobserver.com/eu-political...

📣 NGOs from Austria, Spain, France & Slovenia call on the EU to “defend the right of consumers to know what they eat.” They demand traceability & labelling for all #GMOs In the #NGT trilogue talks on 13.11., the European Parliament must stand firm for consumers’ rights! bit.ly/43Je4ov #NoNewGMO

📣 #NewGMOs: Consumer organisations call on EU to "defend the right of consumers to know what they eat and their freedom of choice." #NGTs Biotech industry pressure is massive. But European Parliament should uphold position that consumers have right to know! www.brusselstimes.com/opinions/179...

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

📢 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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

🔍 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

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

Wir fordern Politiker*innen in der EU auf, alle gentechnisch veränderten Lebensmittel weiterhin zu kennzeichnen und damit die Wahlfreiheit von Verbraucher*innen zu verteidigen! #NoGMOsInMyFood

👀 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 new “Spirit of Asilomar”: Move fast, don’t ask questions. “The conference showed that #biotech developers will press ahead with just about anything.. Questions about #biosafety, corporate ownership or harm are brushed aside...” gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

👉 What's on the EU lobby menu today? Luncheon by MEP Andriukaitis (former Health Commissioner) to promote #NGTs for claimed "consumer benefits". Surprise: No consumers in the room! Organised with Plants for the Future ETP involving the biotech industry. corporateeurope.org/en/2021/03/d...

📣💪 49 Organisations call on EU decision makers: defend the right of consumers to know if they are buying GMO food! 😱 Industry lobby groups are pushing MEPS to keep consumers in the dark by elimintating consumer labels for GMOs. 👇 Read the joint statement here: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/n...

🚫 No GMOs through the back door! The EU may scrap safety checks, traceability & labelling for new GMOs. 📣 Tell your MEP: uphold our right to know what we grow & eat. ✍️ Take action now: demeter.net/no-gmos-thro... #NGTs #NewGMOs #NoHiddenGMOs

In Symbiosis | An incisive and inspiring new film showcases what's wrong with the food and farming system (including the #GMO and #pesticides treadmill) and how we can put it right — book your tickets now! | 33rd Raindance Film Festival (2025) raindance.eventive.org/films/in-sym...

44 European and national organisations, including foodwatch, call on EU policymakers to ensure the freedom of choice by upholding mandatory labelling of new GMOs obtained by New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) as well as traceability across the entire value chain. www.foodwatch.org/en/new-gmos-...

The plan for #deregulation of plants derived from new #geneticengineering violates international law. #NewGE #NGT #NewGeneticEngineering #CRISPR #biodiversity #biosafety www.testbiotech.org/en/news/plan...