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Luxembourg: Environment Minister signs "No to GMO" on Greenpeace truck

26/03/2010 A Greenpeace bus tour against GMOs started today in Luxembourg where 83% of the citizens are against GMOs. Three ministers (environment, health and agriculture) participted in the kick-off event and vowed their support for the tour. "GMOs have negative consequences for biodiversity, human health and the environment", said Greenpeace campaigner Maurice Losch while environment minister Marco Schank, put his signature on the bus for a GMO free Europe. The bus is heading throughout Europe with final destination Spain. More in french   /  Mehr auf Deutsch

Do it again!

25/03/2010 "Stop the Crop" - our call for an EU moratorium of GMO approvals has just started today. The first websites are putting the letter to national ministers online and we have translations in English, German, French, Spanish and Dutch available so far. More to come. Please join us now and spread the word. The Avaaz-petition has just surpassed the 300.000 signature mark.

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2011-08-25 | permalink

Polish president vetoes law on seeds due to

President Bronislaw Komorowski vetoed a new controversial seeds bill, which fails to properly regulate GMO production but does not ban it [...] Though he himself is not against GMOs, he says the bill is a ”bad and irresponsible” piece of legislation with controversial provisions relating to GMOs included at the last moment. ”It is bad legislative practice to throw socially controversial problems into a bill at the very last moment,” Komorowski said last week.

2011-08-19 | permalink

Public pressure halts GE pharma crop trials in Spain

Friends of the Earth Spain celebrates the suspension of GM trials with human genes after mass mobilisations by the general public. Valencia’s local government has revoked the permit of an Italian pharmaceutical company to experiment with GM rice combined with human genes in Vinaros, Castellon. [...] The aim of the GM trial was to obtain enzymes to treat Gaucher’s disease. However, there are several treatments for this disease that are obtained through genetic engineering in confined environments.

2011-08-18 | permalink

Heat on Monsanto over brinjal piracy

American seed giant Monsanto and its Indian collaborator, Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company are to be prosecuted for allegedly ‘stealing’ indigenous plant material for developing genetically modified brinjal variety known as Bt brinjal. The National Biodiversity Authority, a statutory body set up under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, has decided to initiate legal proceedings against the two companies and their collaborators for using indigenous brinjal germplasm without necessary permission.

2011-08-10 | permalink

Bharatiya Kisan Sangh and other organisations ask Monsanto to quit India

The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh and several NGOs took out a protest on Tuesday against US genetically-modified seed producer Monsanto. They took out their protest on the lines of the ‘Quit India Movement’ launched by Mahatma Gandhi against the British on August 9, 1942, and asked Monsanto to stop its activities in the country and quit India. NGO representatives told mediapersons at Gujarat Vidyapeeth that if Monsanto gets total control over the country’s agriculture, it will begin interfering in the political affairs and virtually become another ‘East India Company’.

2011-08-09 | permalink

Transgenic crops record broken by Brazil

82.7 percent of the area for soybeans, 64.9 percent of the area for corn and 39.7 percent of the area for cotton will be using GM seeds; the Central-Western region is now leading in the size of the area planted with GM soybeans. [...] The area planted with transgenic soybeans for thenext harvest will be 13.4 percent greater than it was in the 2010/11 harvest, occupying 20.8 million hectares (82.7 percent of the total area projected).

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