Ask our politicians to maintain our freedom of choice!
The EU is planning to significantly weaken GMO requirements with a new regulation for new GMOs, also referred to as ‘new genomic techniques’. If the regulation goes through, there would be no more prior safety checks, mandatory traceability, or on-package labelling for new GMOs. This would mean that GM products could come onto our fields and plates without us knowing about them.
Send an email to your Members of the Parliament asking them to stand for strict regulations for all new GMOs!
What’s at stake?
The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers are in the final negotiation rounds before the regulation on new GMOs can be adopted.
So far, only the European Parliament is demanding to maintain traceability and labelling requirements for all new GMOs. This is essential to ensure that breeders, farmers, producers, and consumers can make informed choices when it comes to what it is we plant or eat.
Let’s not gamble with our food or keep consumers in the dark – on-package labelling must be guaranteed throughout the entire value chain. If these new GM products are as promising as the seed industry claims, then why shouldn’t they be labelled accordingly?
It is time to make our Members of Parliament accountable for their decisions; they must uphold our right to choose and protect GMO-free farming.
Help us to preserve our right to choose!
If you want to know more about new GMOs and the EU legislative process, please have a look at our briefing paper.
