SCIENTISTS FOR A GMO FREE EUROPE

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Published on Saturday, 24 September 2011 16:34

An international coalition of independent scientists will present comprehensive Scientific evidence for a Europe-wide and worldwide ban on the release of GM crops. See http://www.icppc.pl/sciagnij/poster.pdf

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International Resistance to the the Modification and Control of Life

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Published on Saturday, 24 September 2011 16:28

- Julian Rose -

Resistance comes in three shades: passive, occasionally active and active.
The corporate and political powers who aim to take a controlling influence over the food chain count on the majority of civil resistance being of a passive ‘dumbed down’ nature. They can tolerate a certain amount of ‘occasionally active’ interference in their master plan, but they do not tolerate genuinely active resistance. So those of us who hammer continuously on genetically modified corporate doors are monitored, harassed and generally marginalised by the prevailing ’status quo’ and its media poodles.

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TRADITIONAL SEEDS - OUR HERITAGE AND NATIONAL TREASURE. Traditional and ecological agriculture instead of GMO

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Published on Saturday, 24 September 2011 16:24

Preservation of traditional seeds and plants in family rural farms is the way to protect biological treasures and provide food safety. We cannot allow our agriculture to depend on transnational corporations, whose main purpose is big profit, no matter what happens to the natural environment and the health of people and animals. So we started the project

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European Parliament Proposals for Tighter GM Regulations Progress of Regress?

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Published on Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:26

On 5 July 2011, the European parliament backed plans to let member states choose whether or not to ban the cultivation of GM crops on their territory. A decision which has been widely greeted as a victory for ant-GMO NGO's. However, a more careful assessment throws doubt on the validity of this reaction, and it is our view that an opportunity was missed to to call for a complete prohibition of all GM crops.

The EU parliament proposals show improvements on the EU Commission's original proposals which excluded both environmental and health concerns from its list of what would be deemed legally acceptable criteria for a member state to block the import of GM crops. Under the European Parliament's latest proposal, environmental considerations are now included, however 'health' is still not on the agenda. There also appears to be a tightening of financial liability on the perpetrator of any cross contamination with organic or non GM crops under the EU parliament proposals.

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GMO Act: Polish parliament debate

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Published on Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:28

Dear Friends,

Thanks to your superb support, which, in combination with Polish efforts, led to more than 40 parliamentarians raising critical questions about the planned new GMO Act during the parliamentary reading and debate on 16th December. This was enough to force the debate to be prolonged into February 2010. At that point it will have to go through both the agricultural and environment committees, both of which will have to ratify the act for it to become law.

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