Europe is faced with a new wave of GM-crops that could drastically change the way we produce food in Europe – including extensive pesticide spraying. These GM-crops are unnecessary, risky and profit large multinational companies at the expense of small scale and sustainable farming.
This website and film present some of the dangers of GM-crops, and calls for people across Europe and beyond to take action to stop them. We need a future of food and farming that benefits people and planet, and not the pockets of big business. We need to stop GM-crops from spreading across Europe.
This website was produced by Corporate Europe Observatory and Friends of the Earth Europe.
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) is a research and campaign group working to expose and challenge the privileged access and influence enjoyed by corporations and their lobby groups in EU policy making. This corporate capture of EU decision-making leads to policies that exacerbate social injustice and accelerate environmental destruction across the world. Rolling back corporate power and exposing greenwash are crucial in order to truly address global problems including poverty, climate change, social injustice, hunger and environmental degradation. Corporate Europe Observatory works in close alliance with public interest groups and social movements in and outside Europe to develop alternatives to the dominance of corporate power.
Friends of the Earth Europe is the largest grassroots environmental network in Europe, uniting more than 30 national organisations with thousands of local groups. We are the European arm of Friends of the Earth International which unites 76 national member organisations, some 5,000 local activist groups, and over two million supporters around the world.
This project is supported by:
- European Coordination of Via Campesina
- European Environment Bureau (EEB)
- Genet Inf
- Food and Water Europe
- Carbon Trade Watch
- InfOMG, Romania
- GMWatch, UK
- IG Saatgut, Germany
- SaveourSeeds, Germany
- SlowFood, Germany
- SlowFood, Italy
- Bioforum, Belgium
- Oikos, Belgium
- Climaxi, Belgium
- AIAB, Italy
- Firab, Italy
- GM free Cymru, UK
- Confederación de Consumidores y Usuarios, Spain
- Ingeniería sin Fronteras Andalucía, Spain
- Ecologistas en Acción, Spain
- CEEweb for Biodiversity, Hungary
- Plataforma Rural / Alianzas por un Mundo Rural Vivo, Spain
- Red de Semillas, Spain
- Plataforma Andalucía Libre de Transgénicos, Spain
- Plataforma Transgénicos Fora, Portugal