🚨 NEW REPORT: The pesticide industry didn't just lobby on the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. More like they co-wrote it. This report shows how. Check it out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/f... Thread 🧵👇

Food & Feed Omnibus, co-written by the pesticide lobby | Corporate Europe Observatory

The pesticide lobby’s dirty fingers are all over the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. Omnibus X is paving the way for the dismantling of EU pesticide regulations by allowing harmful pesticides to remain in u...

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As Slovakia files legal challenge to GMO deregulation in Europe, GM Freeze’s Leonie Nimmo talked with Samuel Matejíčka from quid est VERITAS to find out more about the campaign: www.gmfreeze.org/2026/09/23/s... #NGTs #GMOs #No2GMOs

Penalising peasant seed systems threatens global food supply: UN experts www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... We don't need genetic engineering to feed people. We need to not criminalise farmers for growing food, and stop the theft of seeds by seed monopolies.

Penalising peasant seed systems threatens global food supply: UN experts

GENEVA – Farmers across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America face fines and imprisonment for saving, exchanging and selling seed under laws written for industrial seed markets, the UN Working Group ...

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Slovakia considers legal challenge to European deregulation of new GMOs - 300 orgs & prominent people urge Slovak Government to take legal action www.gmfreeze.org/2026/07/15/s...

Our Executive Director Leonie spoke to Farming the Future about the Agroecology Comms Network, which strengthens the movement and helps us fly together. www.farmingthefuture.uk/post/murmura...

Murmuration: how the Agroecology Communications Network is helping the sustainable food sector find its voice

Leonie Nimmo has a word for what the Agroecology Communications Network (ACN) does. "I've come to see it as a murmuration approach," she says. Like a flock of birds, each small and perhaps individuall...

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Starting soon: Both ENDS webinar on EU Free Trade Agreements and the Undermining of Agroecology in Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia. www.bothends.org/en/Whats-new/Publicaties/EU-Free-Trade-Agreements-and-the-Undermining-of-Agroecology-in-Brazil-Kenya-and-Indonesia/

Both ENDS: EU Free Trade Agreements and the Undermining of Agroecology in Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia

In Kenya, saving and exchanging uncertified seeds is now a criminal offence, punishable by fines of up to KSh 1 million (around €6,500) and up to two years in prison. The laws behind these ...

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New GMOs: European Parliament bows to biotech - GM Freeze on the vote this week that removes freedom of choice and "undermines the very basis of the food system," according to one MEP. www.gmfreeze.org/2026/06/19/n...

📢 Great protest today in Strasbourg against #NGT deregulation law. A dozen MEPs from came out in support: 👉 Reject this NGT deregulation law 👉 Guarantee consumer labeling 👉 Don't allow patents crops Tomorrow is the final vote. MEPs: will you vote to protect the rights of farmers and consumers?

For those in the EU, take action! Say no to deregulation GMO food, protect food and farming from corporate control corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/t... @corporateeurope.org

Take action: Say no to deregulation GMO food | Corporate Europe Observatory

The European Union is planning a major hand-out to big corporations like Bayer and BASF, that aim to control the food chain even further. What do they intend to do? Scrapping safety and transparency r...

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"Unnecessary, unwanted and unsafe"—Our Exec Director Leonie on BBC Today programme this week highlighting the risks of GM purple tomatoes... and the inability of developers @johninnescentre.bsky.social to make any health claims. www.gmfreeze.org/2026/02/05/g...

"The GMO industry is based on a unique economy: that of the eternally renewed promise." Excellent @lemonde.fr article on empty promises of the GM industry, that has skyrocketed chemical use in agriculture and now poses new & unique risks, e.g. robot-ready plants, ref @testbiotech.bsky.social

Important article from @gmwatch.bsky.social on a recent study highlighting the risks of outdoor genetic engineering and the potential impacts on non-target species—including humans

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Coming to your neighbourhood soon? Seriously risky outdoor gene editing. Some scientists who argue for deregulation deny outdoor gene editing is possible. But patents and the scientific literature tell a very different story. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

Israeli military raids Palestinian seed bank - 8 people abducted & equipment & resources for food security and Food Sovereignty destroyed or stolen - including Palestinian heritage seeds. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/12/04/i...

Our Exec Director Leonie was at the Gaia Foundation's Seed Gathering in Wales at the weekend, spreading the word about new GMOs: www.youtube.com/live/p5h3cyz..., time code 36:30 & at the closing plenary: www.youtube.com/live/c7GLY7c..., time code 29:40. Thanks 2 Seed Sovereignty team!

Looking forward 2 launch of Mutant Ecologies Mon @housmansbookshop.bsky.social Looks fascinating - a "critical cartography of the shifting landscapes of capital accumulation conjured by recent developments in genomic science, genome editing and the biotech industry..." housmans.com/event/autono...

Autonomy Now present ‘Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life’ with Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante

Autonomy Now present ‘Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life’ with Erica Borg and Amedeo Policante Mutant Ecologies: Manufacturing Life in the Age of…

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🗣️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...

Once released, genetically engineered wildlife can’t be recalled. Over 90 NGOs call for a global moratorium to protect biodiversity. 🌿 🤓 Learn more: www.engineeringnature.org 📢 Or sign here: www.saveourseeds.org/nature-is-no... #IUCNCongress2025 #MoratoriumNow #NatureIsNotALaboratory

We have written to new top brass at DEFRA urging them to protect food producers, traders and the public from the risks of hidden new GMOs. www.gmfreeze.org/press-releas... See our new report for why the new legal framework fails to manage risks: www.gmfreeze.org/publications...

Respond to FSC consultation on new GMOs by 28th Sept! The biggest forest sustainability org is consulting on whether newer forms of GMOs should be considered GMOs. GM Freeze & others are urging groups to respond: www.gmfreeze.org/2025/09/11/a... #StopGETrees

It would be tricky to convey the 3rd International Biodynamic Conference in words, so we've settled for some pictures. Thanks to the organisers for an inspiring event. gmfreeze.org/2025/09/05/3... @demeterint.bsky.social @goetheanum-weekly.bsky.social @goetheanum-de.bsky.social

Seen Percy Vs. Goliath yet? Film about Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser's battle against Monsanto starring Christopher Walken and Christina Ricci t.co/HARgmwcV7i

Exciting 2B gathered with people from across the world @ 3rd International Biodynamic Conference. From cloud forests in Ecuador to water from Namibia to stories from Stroud... Multiple keys unlocking multiple wisdoms, The elementals in full force. & it hasn’t even started yet!

It's all about the undermining of science: Why the UK's legislation for new GMOs places biotech companies at a massive legal advantage, and health and the environment at risk. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/08/09/a...

Warning Over UK's New Genetically-Altered Food Rules as Deadline on New Law Looms – @bylinetimes.bsky.social Times bylinetimes.com/2025/08/04/w...

Warning Over UK's New Genetically-Altered Food Rules as Deadline on New Law Looms

Exclusive: Campaigners raise alarm as regulations allowing lab-altered crops in supermarkets from next year contain no limit on genetic modifications and 'weak' safeguards

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Beyond GM has sent a pre-action letter to Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed, putting the government on notice that we intend to pursue a judicial review of the Genetic Technology Regulations 2025. Read more and DONATE to our @CrowdJusticeUK funder NOW. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...

Organic farmers & churches in Germany unite to highlight the risks of patenting genetic resources that are posed by the proposed deregulation of new GMOs in Europe. www.organicseurope.bio/news/a-coali...

Call to end patents on seeds

A coalition of conventional and organic farmers call for an end to patents on seeds

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🌾 Bitter harvest 🌾 30 years after the first GMO crops hit the fields, their promises - like feeding the world & cutting chemicals - mostly failed. Our new website exposes 8 broken biotech promises. Time for a fairer food system✊ 👉 gmopromises.org #GMOs #NoNewGMOs #agriculture #natureconservation

👀 Food labels give us the information we need to choose what we eat — including whether products contain GMOs. ✔️ 💼 But EU politicians are considering scrapping labelling requirements for most #NewGMOs ✊ We call on them to defend our right to choose — all GMOs must remain labelled! #NoGMOsInMyFood

👀 Food labels provide information that allows us to choose the food we want to eat, i.e. presence of GMOs.✔️ 💼 But EU politicians are discussing ending the labelling of most #NewGMOs #NGTs ❌ ✊ We demand that politicians defend our freedom of choice and keep all GMOs labelled! #NoGMOsInMyFood

The first demonstration on new GMOs in Parma on Saturday 14 June 2025. A few hundreds of people participated. Reported by @cicrocevia.bsky.social #NoGMOsInMyFood #NoGMOsInMyField www.gmo-free-regions.org/countries/it...