🤯 Despite no support from 9 EU countries, Council just voted to scrap safety rules & consumer labels for new & patented GMOs by Bayer etc. #NGTs
⛔ The EU Parl demands for labeling and against patents were not upheld.
📣 EP has final chance to repair, take action: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/t...
🚨 EU ministers just agreed to take away farmers' & consumers’ right to choose what they grow in their fields & eat!
No more labelling, no more safety checks for #newGMOs. Despite the food industry’s & citizens’ demand to keep their right to know about all generations of GMOs.
Our full reaction 👇
The @cbg-network.bsky.social has submitted 10 counter-motions to the Bayer AGM this Friday. The topics range from #glyphosate as a chemical weapon and the pesticide side-effect "Parkinson's disease," to PFAS, lobbying, the EU-Mercosur agreement, drug trials, and executive salaries.
✊ As the process of deregulating GMOs/NGTs advances in Europe, opposition is growing. @infogm.bsky.social has compiled an overview of the main statements recently published:
infogm.org/en/a-wide-ra...
#Glyphosate Weed Killer Tied to Widespread Bacterial and Multidrug Resistance, Elevating Silent Pandemic beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblo...
The Cancer Victims Who Could Sink Bayer’s Roundup Settlement. “They screwed up, basically, and when you screw up, you gotta be accountable.” With thousands of cases piling up in U.S. courts, the company’s relief plans still face hurdles. www.wsj.com/business/the...
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📣 A new article published today by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and GMWatch: "Biotech lobby groups are set to trap farmers and breeders in patent minefield"
Read the article here:
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/b...
Elaine Ingham, Who Taught That Soil Is Alive, Dies at 73. A scientist & leader in the organic farming movement, she popularized the “soil food web,” an understanding that soil is a complex realm of microorganisms. She also warned about the dangers of GMOs. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/s...
Welcome to our latest Review, taking in: Brainless Clones, Designer Babies, Mutational Meltdown and More! gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
EU vote on new GMOs: Wrong for farmers, wrong for consumers, wrong for nature. “This isn’t about innovation—it’s about allowing a handful of big biotech and pesticide corporations like Bayer to make ever more profits on the back of millions of farmers, consumers, and nature” — @foeeurope.bsky.social
🍽️ What if food labels no longer told the truth? ⁉️
🌾 The EU could soon allow genetically modified ingredients in our food without labeling them.
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@demeterint.bsky.social
GMO-FREE food production at risk! Germany's Working Group for Peasant Agriculture (AbL) calls on the EU Council of Ministers & the European Parliament to stop the unacceptable draft law on new GMOs. Safeguard the right of farmers to produce food without genetic engineering! abl-ev.de/aktuelles/de...
As if farmers in Lebanon weren't suffering enough—with Israel spraying & burning their farmland with glyphosate and white phosphorus, Lebanon is also under huge pressure from the US as well as other actors to put into place a new law that would make the trade and exchange of native seeds illegal! ⬇️
CBG is calling for a rally at the #Bayer AGM, April 24. Main focus: "Glyphosate as a chemical weapon." Dual-use #glyphosate is currently being used in the Middle East conflict. And in Brazil, large landowners are spraying glyphosate to displace Indigenous people and seize their land. Rally details 👇
TNL Editor-in-Chief @careygillam.bsky.social discussed “Cancer in the Corn Belt” today at the annual @sejorg.bsky.social conference in Chicago.
To learn more, explore our ongoing series: www.thenewlede.org/cancer-in-th...
#SEJ2026
After years of lobbying to deregulate, a ban on patented plants and foods remains essential to protect farmers, breeders and consumer choice. 🍽
Excellent in-depth article by
@gmwatch.bsky.social & @corporateeurope.org
on this issue: www.gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
"A plant naturally resistant to drought could be copied—then patented.. life turned into private property. This model is one of a toll on nature. More expensive seeds, farmers made dependent, innovation locked in the hands of a few large corporations. We refuse to let our food become a monopoly.."
The French Socialist & Democrat MEP @christopheclergeau.bsky.social plans to introduce amendments to the new GMOs (NGT) legislation—pencilled in for a vote at the end of May plenary session—to change the language on patents, to avoid “more dependency, less choice and higher prices” for farmers.
CHEMICAL COLONIALISM Glyphosate and white phosphorus: Israel poisons Palestinian lands to erase the Palestinian people. Boycott, dismantle Bayer-Monsanto
Colonialism is not limited to bombs, walls, and expulsions: Palestine is also methodically poisoned by Israel through the propagation of toxins and the use of inflammable weapons and chemical substances. Destroying the soil and poisoning the water and crops makes life impossible, condemning the health of the Palestinian people for decades. Far from being an accident, this method is deliberate and documented. subtitle: Israeli airplane spreading glyphosate in Southern Lebanon, February 1st 2026
During the Vietnam War, the US sprayed over 76 million liters of Agent Orange. The goal was to destroy forests and farmland to starve people and force them to leave. Today, Vietnamese soil is still contaminated by Agent Orange dioxin, and generations of Vietnamese still suffer from cancers, congenital malformations, and other diseases linked with exposure. These impacts are felt decades after the war. A war on the land has been used to break a people.
In Palestine, land is fundamental. It is passed on from generation to generation and represents life and Palestinian culture. Israel is aware of its importance, and as such, consistently targets Palestinian agriculture. Farmer organisations involved in seed banks and food autonomy are classified as terrorist organisations; farmers are attacked and killed by the Israeli army, olive trees are uprooted, fields are destroyed, and access to water is controlled. Today, only 1.5% of Gaza consists of accessible and arable agricultural land. To destroy the link between a people and its land is to organise its erasure.
Since 2023, the Israeli army has been using white phosphorus in Gaza, an incendiary weapon that causes uncontrollable fires, burns to the bone and leaves the soil unusable.
Boycott Bayer-Monsanto, dismantle poison production chains, support struggles for the Earth!
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Challenge over new-GMO regs heads to High Court. @beyond-gm.bsky.social brings judicial review, arguing allowing GMO plants to enter the environment and food chain—without safety testing or labelling—undermines the rights of farmers, food businesses and consumers www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/challen...
Show solidarity with Lebanese farmers threatened with "seed slavery" and having their vital national seed heritage converted into a monopoly-controlled commodity. Sign the petition against the draft seed trade law privatizing #seeds agrimovement.org/knowledge/la...
“The deregulation proposal represents a dangerous grab for power over our #seeds and food supply.” Article on the patent battle affecting the upcoming EU vote to deregulate new GMOs, by @gmwatch.bsky.social & @corporateeurope.org www.gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
Upcoming European Parliament vote to deregulate new GMOs: Biotech lobby pushes false solutions for patent problem. 80% of citizens oppose patents on seeds. www.gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
Studies that investigate whether gene-edited plants differ from their “parent” plants in unintended ways may show unintentional effects of genetic modification, raising questions about the safety of GMO plants.
https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20649
And check out our latest Review on New GMOs. We cover the latest SCIENCE, as well as the DEREGULATION battles in the EU and New Zealand, and the post-deregulation battles in Japan and the UK. Also news on what little is in the NEW GMOs PIPELINE, + PATENTS, & TECHNO-FOOD! gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
PAN UK is calling for #glyphosate not to be re-approved in the UK—but if it is:
▪️Ban sales to non-professional users
▪️Ban its use in public spaces: eg parks, pavements, playgrounds, schools & hospitals
▪️Ban its use in pre-harvest desiccation—banned in the EU since 2023 www.pan-uk.org/glyphosate-r...
More from CBG on the use of #glyphosate and white phosphorus (#Bayer is its sole US producer) as chemical weapons in the Middle East. www.cbgnetwork.org/cbg-ruft-zu-...
CBG is calling for a rally at the #Bayer AGM, April 24. Main focus: "Glyphosate as a chemical weapon." Dual-use #glyphosate is currently being used in the Middle East conflict. And in Brazil, large landowners are spraying glyphosate to displace Indigenous people and seize their land. Rally details 👇
