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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!
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October 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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...
Autonomy Now present ‘Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life’ with Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante
Autonomy Now present ‘Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life’ with Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of…
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October 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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...
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🗣️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...
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...
October 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🗣️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...
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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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
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
October 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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
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...
GM Freeze | A disaster by design: the UK’s new rules for new GMOs
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September 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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
September 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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...
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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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September 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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!
September 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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...
GM Freeze | Group that advises on new GMOs tied in multiple knots
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August 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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...
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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August 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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...
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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...
@CrowdJusticeUK funder NOW. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
June 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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...
@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...
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
www.organicseurope.bio
June 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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...
www.organicseurope.bio/news/a-coali...
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🌾 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
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
June 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🌾 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
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
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👀 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
💼 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
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
👀 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
💼 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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👀 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
💼 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
June 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
👀 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
💼 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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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...
A few hundreds of people participated. Reported by @cicrocevia.bsky.social #NoGMOsInMyFood
#NoGMOsInMyField
www.gmo-free-regions.org/countries/it...
June 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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...
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...
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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June 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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...
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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...
May 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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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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May 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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.
May 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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
and a meeting exposes challenges and controversies
May 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
GM Freeze newsletter: GenTech regulations pass House of Lords - mailchi.mp/gmfreeze/gen...
and a meeting exposes challenges and controversies
and a meeting exposes challenges and controversies
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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...
April 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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...
@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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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...
@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!
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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April 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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!