Agri-Food Policy Under Pressure Before 2024 EU Elections 29 August 2023 In this article, we tell you all you need to know about what’s coming up in Brussels this Autumn, and what you can do to help us push our politicians to make the right choice. The European elections are right around the corner (June 2024), putting extra time pressure on EU food and agriculture …
New GMOs: the European Commission Puts Agribusiness Interests Ahead of Farmers, Consumers and the Environment 6 July 2023 On July 5th, a worrying proposal to deregulate new GMOs (or “new genomic techniques”) in the European Union was released by the European Commission. This is bad news for our food, biodiversity, farmers and for citizens. Slow Food rejects the Commission’s plans to exempt the majority of new GMOs from existing GMO requirements, which means …
Three hundred Organisations Call on EU Commission to Keep New GMOs Strictly Regulated 17 May 2023 Slow Food and many other civil society organisations wrote an open letter to Frans Timmermans, Vice President of the European Commission, urging him to keep new GMOs regulated. The letter was signed by 300 organisations, and states: “We conclude that the best way is to maintain the current legal system for all generations of GMOs …
Several National Environment Ministers Call for a Strict Regulation of New GMOs 17 March 2023 On 16th March, the potential deregulation of new GMOs in the EU was discussed during the Council meeting of environment ministers. The point was brought forward by the Austrian environment minister Leonore Gewessler. This discussion is very timely as the European Commission is expected to make a proposal for new rules concerning new GMOs, or …
400.000+ Europeans Oppose Agro-industry’s Push for Deregulating New GMOs 13 February 2023 On February 7, a coalition of 50+ organisations from 17 EU member states today delivered a petition to the European Commission demanding to keep the new generation of genetically modified organisms ‘regulated and labelled’. The petition ran from April to November 2022 and received 420.000 signatures. New genetically modified organisms (GMOs) like CRISPR/CAS, are not technically …
Busting the Myths on New GMOs 16 November 2022 As the European Union is preparing to decide on whether and how to deregulate new GMOs, we look at the most frequent claims made by the biotechnology and seed industry to promote new GMOs and their deregulation. Spoiler: they’re misleading, if not deceptive. Myth #1: Changes brought by new GM techniques (or “genome editing”) …
EU Member States Show Support for the Deregulation of New GMOs 7 June 2021 Madeleine Coste & Alice Poiron Last week, EU Member States welcomed the alarming Commission’s study on “New Genomic Techniques”, which suggests certain new GMOs to be exempt from rigorous safety assessments. Slow Food sees this disappointing conclusion as a proof of the EU’s resort to biotechnologies as a silver bullet for current food system problems and calls on the EU …
