Food safety, public health, social protection, workers and labour rights, animal welfare, and environmental protections are the backbone of a fair and resilient society. In a joint and open letter initiated by Friends of the Earth Europe, Climate Action Network Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory, European Environmental Bureau, European Public Service Union, and the European Trade …
Risky business: who wins and who loses when new GMOs go unchecked?
Under current European law, new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) must undergo a risk assessment before entering the market as food, feed or seeds. This is to protect citizens, wildlife and farm animals from the potentially harmful impacts of untested GMOs. However, big agribusiness lobby to eliminate these safeguards for the new generation of GMOs and …
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Locked seeds: who wins and who loses when new GMOs get patented?
Currently, just a handful of corporations control more than 60 percent of the global commercial seed market. Biotech industry giants, particularly Corteva, have secured significant control over patents for certain gene editing techniques called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), expanding their control over the plant patent landscape. While patented seeds have played a …
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No strings attached: who wins and who loses when new GMOs get a free pass?
The strength of EU food safety law lies in its stringent regulations on safety checks. Under EU law, potentially risky substances—including food contact materials, pesticides, feed additives and GMOs—must undergo thorough safety evaluations before entering the market. The EU has long acted in the belief that these comprehensive safety checks are the best approach for …
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Unlabelled harms: who wins and who loses when new GMOs stay secret?
According to EU Regulations, food and feed containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) must be clearly labelled as such. This safeguards the rights of consumers to make informed choices about their food, independent from the actual risks. The labelling of GMOs has had a vast impact on their demand. When confronted with food bearing the GMO …
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Corporate spotlight on the meat and feed industry
Major agribusiness are pushing smallholder farmers out of business by taking over the whole production process and monopolising the market. This rise of corporate capture in the livestock farming sector has come hand-in-hand with accelerated environmental destruction, climate chaos and the exploitation of human rights. The biggest corporations in the agribusiness sector, including Big Meat …
