Mute Schimpf

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The real innovation story is not in the Cloud. It’s in farmers’ fields.

📖 Recommended reading 👇👇

At a moment when Europe urgently needs investment for decarbonisation and a just transition, InvestEU risks reinforcing an industrial policy that protects private profits rather than driving transformative change.

🔗Read more: counter-balance.org/publications...

Industry Support at All Costs? 🇪🇺

Our new report shows how InvestEU is scaling up public guarantees while undermining a just transition. 🧵👇

🔗 Read more: counter-balance.org/publications...

Thanks for investigating on this. Still shake my head in wonder at why a German chemical company of all companies receives so many favors.

We need #Rulestoprotect
Corporate interests have pressured the heads of States into attacking vital safety, social, environmental laws.
We need more, even stronger laws to protect Europe’s people and wildlife.

This also hinders transitions to #Agroecology, multiply energy consumption, over use of resource.
Thanks Somo for great investigation

Head In The Cloud Launch webinar. 25 Feburary 2026 14:00 UTC Challenging the digital takeover of farming In English, Espanol, francais, portugues IPES-Food & Mcknight Foundation

🌱Who controls innovation in farming?

#BigTech is tightening its grip on our #food. But real innovations are growing from the ground up.

📢 Join us to launch #HeadInTheCloud, a landmark report challenging the false promise of digital agriculture.

🗓️ 25 Feb
🔗 Register us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

great piece from @matsengstrom.bsky.social the other side of the story are costs of non-regulation: pollution from PFAS chemicals will cost the European Union €440bn by 2050.
We need better rules not lawmakers that only want to tick boxes of industry wishlists. #Rulestoprotect

Big Brother is Feeding You - Friends of the Earth Europe As farmers face increasing economic pressure and rising climate impacts, Big Agri and BigTech corporations are working jointly to sell them a new techno-fix: the digitalisation of farming through plat...

Big Brother is feeding you.

It doesn't sound nice, right?

As farmers face increasing economic pressure and climate impacts, BigAgri & BigTech are teaming up to sell them a new techno-fix: digital farming through platformisation and AI.

What is that? What's behind this corporate takeover? 👇

« L’industrie des OGM repose sur une économie singulière, celle de la promesse éternellement renouvelée » CHRONIQUE. Les avantages vantés par les promoteurs des nouvelles techniques génomiques ressemblent fort à ceux déjà mis en avant il y a trente ans, lors de l’introduction des premiers OGM, observe, da...

"The GMO industry is based on a unique economy: the eternally renewed promise. [...] The question's not what these technologies [ #newGMOs ] could do. It's what the companies developing them have an interest in making them do"

says @lemonde.fr journaliste @sfoucart.bsky.social in this great piece 👇

After waiting so many hours for the food omnibus. nothing published yet

This devilish grin sums up what scrapping vital protections means for people. Enjoy watching the video

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘆 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨’𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝘆 (𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁) 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴

With Investigate Europe & EUobserver, we track how EU transparency is being pushed back – from the new "Infosec" bill to Gaza, von der Leyen’s messages & pressure on Aarhus.

Read it here: www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

Brussels backs softer regime for gene-edited plants Agreement over lighter-touch regulation marks first big loosening of rules since ‘Frankenfoods’ outcry 20 years ago

nice coverage in the FT www.ft.com/content/db37...

the grinch is wearing a christmas wreath on his head and holding a gift . ALT: the grinch is wearing a christmas wreath on his head and holding a gift .

🎁💸And here comes yet another gift to the biotech industry...

Last night, the EU institutions made a deal to destroy safeguards for new GMOs. A gift for corporations, a punishment for consumers, farmers and nature.

Our full reaction 👉 friendsoftheearth.eu/press-releas...

#nonewGMOs #IchooseGMOfree

Is the topic of new GMO so controversial that it brings the @europarl.europa.eu website down? www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
Any this is not about green transition, this is about more power for #BigAg and abolished farmers' and consumers' rights

📦 Today we helped deliver 75 boxes of pesticides banned in the EU but authorised for export, back to the European Commission in Brussels.

From Brazil to India, Indonesia to South Africa, citizens sent a clear message: toxic trade must stop.

#ReturnToSender #BanToxicExports

👋📩 @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @christophehansen.bsky.social @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu, you've got mail!

#StopToxicTrade #StopDoubleStandards #StopAgrotoxics

💥 BLACK FRIDAY FAIL 💥

We need more well-being, not more useless stuff 💯

Overconsumption is eating up our future. Even buying “green” reinforces a system based on overextraction and overproduction. Time to reset our economies!

www.ohnegentechnik.org/artikel/gent...

Will @eppgroup.bsky.social listen to Europe’s 2nd biggest supermarket and defend the labelling for all generations of GMOs in the negotiations with the Council?

Ombudsman finds maladministration in how Commission prepared urgent legislative proposals The proposals concerned corporate sustainability due diligence (Omnibus I), the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and countering migrant smuggling.

The EU's ethics watchdog just ruled that 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's use of 'omnibus' packages to implement 🇺🇸President Trump's EU policy wishlist violates fundamental principles of good administration, including transparent, inclusive, and evidence-based law making.

Gemeinsam mit vielen anderen Verbänden und den Bäuerinnen der WeAct Petition waren wir heute beim @bmleh.de.

Neue #Gentechnik darf nicht unsichtbar auf unseren Tellern landen! Wir bestehen auf Transparenz, Kennzeichnung und Risikoprüfung.

weact.campact.de/petitions/ne...

#NGT #NeueGentechnik

Klares Zeichen: Züchter, Bauern, Verarbeiter und Händler von Lebensmitteln wollen auch in Zukunft – durch effektive Koexistenz- und Haftungsregeln – gentechnikfrei wirtschaften können. So die Botschaft heute in München von einem breiten Bündnis gegen die Deregulierung der neuen Gentechnik

Tolle Aktion von @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social u.a. in Brüssel: Die EU darf dem Lobbydruck von Big Tech und Trump nicht nachgeben! Die Digitalregeln und das Wettbewerbsrecht müssen wirksam durchgesetzt werden. Es ist Zeit, Google zu zerschlagen!

www.lobbycontrol.de/macht-der-di... #StandUpUrsula

The EU Far-Right Tracker: Exposing when the EPP sides with the Far Right | The Good Lobby Despite repeated reassurances from Commission the EPP continues to rely on the far right to pass legislation or secure political wins.

and her Moderaterna party voted with far right to widely kill the due dilligence laws through with far-right backing in November. But the 1st time EPP abolished EU laws with far right, started with the first vote on new GMOs thegoodlobby.eu/the-eu-far-r...

It is the @eppgroup.bsky.social rapporteur who doesn't want to advocate for Parliament's position in the negotiations. So far Council hasn't given anything to the @europarl.europa.eu at all. No labelling, no transparency, no breeders or farmers' rights on patents.

Thank you for summarising what we are losing without strong rules and agile civil society, I start falling in love with your assessments of lawmakers deregulation agenda.
Please read this oped and share euobserver.com/eu-political...

Thanks Alemanno for summing up in one Oped how @eppgroup.bsky.social and far right
fabricate a scandal, delegitimise and defund organisations, then criminalise their new funding as foreign influence, all while continuing to demand NGOs services for consumer protection & digital rights enforcement.