Mute Schimpf

Modified food, modified rights? Why genetically modify organisms labelling must stay

📣 #NewGMOs: Consumer organisations call on EU to "defend the right of consumers to know what they eat and their freedom of choice." #NGTs

Biotech industry pressure is massive. But European Parliament should uphold position that consumers have right to know!
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On #WorldFoodDay, the EU Commission should take note: farmers & cities across Europe prove food can be grown without pesticides 🌱

A fairer, healthier food system is possible. Time for policies that support it!

Check our new report with @paneurope.bsky.social👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...

We have 5 days left to tell lawmakers why clean food, safe working conditions and our nature needs our voice against toxic pesticides #ProtectMyPlate

Kommentar zum Namensverbot für Veggie-Produkte: Wahnwitzige Wurstentscheidung

Auf den Punkt von @uedio.bsky.social, Hat die @eppgroup.bsky.social nichts Wichtigeres zu tun als Fleischkonsum als Heilsbringerin der Landwirtschaft zu verkaufen?

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Every voice counts. It took decades of our collective voices to build the laws that protect people and nature. Don’t let them be undone in silence. Let’s defend what protects us.

Tell the Commission: no weakening of rules on food and feed safety, pesticides | Corporate Europe Observatory Yet another Omnibus proposal has been announced in a ‘call for evidence’ by the Commission, to “reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens while maintaining high standards”, and this time the target is foo...

📣 Yet another #Omnibus proposal has been announced and this time the target is food and feed safety, in particular #pesticides.
☠️ The pesticide industry wants to weaken current pesticide rules.
👉 Tell EU decision makers: No weakening pesticide laws!
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Screencap of President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen's instagram story. Over a photo of Ursula with the EU Council, it reads: "Copenhagen Competitiveness Summit. Europe has strength. Europe has huge potential. But we need to unleash it. We need simplification, we need deregulation, we need it at the European level, and we also need it at the national level."

Who has the many speeches where Ursula swore simplification was not deregulation? Was not last time just a month ago for SotUE?

Dropping the pretence, then, I see.

Great Action @eeb.org, visualises perfectly that our future is with nature and not with deregulation.
We also need clean and safe food friendsoftheearth.eu/news/raise-y...

The protection of our food, soil, and water from harmful chemicals is a necessity, not a burden. Take few minutes to tell this EU lawmakers before 14 October

🗣️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...

‼️Stop EU #deregulation ! Stop the #Chainsaw/Kettingzaag/Tronçonneuse/Kettensäge! Take down the #Omnibuses! No to the 28th regime and to #socialdumping! #BackToTheFuture #Dignity #SocialRights
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very accurate description of the political situation😡

We have brought together human rights lawyers, academics, and decisionmakers to literally walk the talk 🥾

Here's why Marina Stefanova, a corporate sustainability professor from Bulgaria has trekked across Belgium in the past 3 days to say no to deregulation 🙅‍♀️

Wise words from Maya Doneva from the European Women's Lobby. This is why everyone should join the Back to the Future end event today✊

🧷 Sept 23 at Schuman
🕐 18:30

Come for the inspiring speeches, stay for the incredible music by Planete Boum Boum.

📢 We need strong climate obligations, accountability, and access to justice for those harmed by pollution, extraction, displacement and unsafe working conditions.

We are walking the talk 🫰

@ec.europa.eu, can you hear us coming yet⁉️

We are many. We are united. We are on our way 🪧🥾

Together with decision makers, communities, and allies—we are marching and calling for the EU institutions to start fighting for a green and social Europe.

We will march until the EU quarter and they hear our call:

📢 No ❌ deregulation!

Indeed unwanted contamination will rapidly and repeatedly occur and it will be not reversible. As a geneticist and organic farmer, but more so as a mother feeding her children I cannot understand how this is not alarming and how it is not a political priority.

Dear Mr Canfin, please don’t bargain labelling of new GMOs for alleged sustainability. Our nature is in crisis and needs better from you.
New GMOs are part of a highly industrialised farming system and should not get any incentives by being falsely labeled as sustainable crops

This proposal is incompatible with farmers' rights on seeds, and would simply legalize biopiracy by allowing the extension of the scope of patents to native seeds. This will only benefit to patent-holding multinationals, at the expense of European farmers, small seed breeders and agrobiodiversity

Indeed, farmers reject the EU-Mercosur agreement and the unfair competition it will bring to farmers in the EU and in Mercosur countries! But farmers also oppose the proposal to deregulate new genomic techniques, which want to impose patented GMOs without any traceability and labeling

Yes, without labelling along the entire food chain, the right to decide what to grow and what to eat will be lost. Keep new GMOs labelled! Renew: please stand up for the European Parliament position on labelling.

It is crucial to guarantee on-package labeling throughout the entire supply chain, from the field to the plate. The Parliament must not give up on labeling and traceability in the current #NGT negotiations. Support breeders, farmers, producers and consumers in their right to choose! #IChooseGMOFree

Without labelling along the food chain, consumers will loose their right to decide what they eat. Keep new GMOs labelled. Renew: stand up for the EP position on labelling.
#IchooseGMOfree

Dear Mr Canfin, can we rely that you, as Shadow, will defend the EP’s position to maintain traceability along for all generations of GMOs?

On #NGTs we urge you to not sacrifice freedom of choice - both for consumers and for all business operators - for sustainability. Everyone has the right to know what’s in their food. #ICHOOSEGMOFREE

Labelling, traceability, and published detection methods are necessary for all new GMOs, to protect consumer rights, public health and the environment.

Indeed, EU plant breeders & farmers face a framework on intellectual property rights that stifles innovation & harms biodiversity, especially w/increase of patented NGT plants.
👉More on legal solutions to reform biopatent laws & secure access to plant genetics www.martin-haeusling.eu/images/Legal...

In addition, farmers are facing more problems: Scrapping safety rules for NGT crops will cause a flood of patented crops, harming farmers and benefiting a few big biotech corporations. #Nopatentonseeds
Dear Mr Canfin, as Shadow, will you strongly defend the EP position to opposing patents on crops?

Dear Mr. Canfin, our agriculture also needs protection from unwanted contamination from new GMOs. Please stand up for stand up for the @europarl.europa.eu’s position in Trilogue

Our two cents on the #SOTEU

"Calling for unity when your plans are only benefiting big business is a shocking failure to secure actual solutions for the multiple crises and daily struggles of many citizens in Europe."

-- @muteschimpf.bsky.social

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