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In a joint position paper, 139 associations and organisations have called on the German government and the European Parliament to reject the EU Commission's proposed deregulation of genetic engineering.
The retailers Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd have spoken out in favour of continuing to label products from new genetic engineering. This is an important signal from the retail industry.
After very high price premiums for GMO-free soybean meal in 2021 and 2022, the market continued to ease significantly in 2023.
The outcome of VLOG's appearance at the Anuga food fair 2023 was positive all round. There were many good conversations and contacts. German Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir also visited us at the fair.
Clear and full GMO labelling is a must for consumers and the food sector. At the Anuga fair, VLOG and the Association of Organic Food Processors (AöL) want to show together with food manufacturers and retailers what is at stake with the EU Commission's plans for new GMOs.
On 15 June 2023, the EU Commission's plans for genetic engineering became prematurely known through a leak. VLOG will inform and discuss about this on 29 June 2023 in Berlin with members, guests and a high-profile panel.
According to insider reports, the proposal for a new EU regulation on GMOs is being delayed. Among other things, this could be due to the commitment of some environment ministers, in particular the Austrian one.
Dairy producer Royal Lactalis Leerdammer renounces VLOG certification and GMO-free feeding as of September 2023. However, the company is alone in this decision.
Several youth associations from the sectors of agriculture, food and environmental protection are speaking out against genetic engineering deregulation. For their generation, this is a particularly important concern.
The German Association for Food without Genetic Engineering (VLOG) has used this year’s International Green Week food fair in Berlin (IGW) to communicate the importance of "Ohne Gentechnik" (Non-GMO) business to politicians and to warn them against lowering EU standards. German Agriculture Minister Özdemir also took a stand on genetic engineering.
GMO-free works well: For the first time in over ten years, no GMO contaminations were found in seed in 2022. Monitoring by authorities should include new genetic engineering.
In front of the Federal Chancellery, exactly 420,757 signatures under the petition "Not behind our backs - no free pass for new genetic engineering in our food!" were handed over to Parliamentary State Secretary Bettina Hoffmann of the Federal Environment Ministry.
The German organic associations, together with their umbrella organisation Bund Ökologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft (BÖLW – Organic Food Industry Federation), have again jointly opposed the EU Commission's plans to soften the EU's genetic engineering rules in a resolution.
The new “Red-Green” government of German state Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) has committed itself to freedom from genetic engineering in its coalition agreement. This is a good signal from this agricultural state.
The Swiss Ethics Committee on Biotechnology (ECNH) considers the possibilities of new genetic engineering such as CRISPR to contribute quickly to climate adaptation in agriculture overrated and warns against betting on them.
In a new online campaign, the consumer organisation Foodwatch calls on the German Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir and the German Minister of the Environment Steffi Lemke to clearly rebuff the EU Commission's plans to deregulate new genetic engineering.
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