GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As 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 012
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Penalising 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.ohchr.orgPenalising peasant seed systems threatens global food supply: UN expertsGENEVA – 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 ... 000
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Slovakia 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...gmfreeze.orgGM Freeze | Slovakia considers legal challenge to European deregulation of new GMOs 031
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Our 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...farmingthefuture.ukMurmuration: how the Agroecology Communications Network is helping the sustainable food sector find its voiceLeonie 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... 000
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Starting 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/bothends.orgBoth ENDS: EU Free Trade Agreements and the Undermining of Agroecology in Brazil, Kenya, and IndonesiaIn 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 ... 010
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 19/06/2026New 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... 020
Reposted by GM FreezeNina Holland @nina-holland.bsky.social · 16/06/2026📢 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? 1114
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 21/05/2026For 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.orgcorporateeurope.orgTake action: Say no to deregulation GMO food | Corporate Europe ObservatoryThe 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... 253
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 06/02/2026"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... 132
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 29/01/2026"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 120
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Important 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 013
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Israeli 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... 032
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Our 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!youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 010
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Looking 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...housmans.comAutonomy Now present ‘Mutant Ecologies: how capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of life’ with Erica Borg and Amedeo PolicanteAutonomy 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… 020
Reposted by GM FreezeFriends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 01/10/2025🗣️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... 11410
Reposted by GM FreezeSave Our Seeds @saveourseeds.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Once 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 079
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 30/09/2025We 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...gmfreeze.orgGM Freeze | A disaster by design: the UK’s new rules for new GMOs 041
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Respond 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 021
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It 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 031
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Seen Percy Vs. Goliath yet? Film about Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser's battle against Monsanto starring Christopher Walken and Christina Ricci t.co/HARgmwcV7it.co 000
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Exciting 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! 010
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 27/08/2025It'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...gmfreeze.orgGM Freeze | Group that advises on new GMOs tied in multiple knots 021
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Warning Over UK's New Genetically-Altered Food Rules as Deadline on New Law Looms – @bylinetimes.bsky.social Times bylinetimes.com/2025/08/04/w...bylinetimes.comWarning Over UK's New Genetically-Altered Food Rules as Deadline on New Law LoomsExclusive: Campaigners raise alarm as regulations allowing lab-altered crops in supermarkets from next year contain no limit on genetic modifications and 'weak' safeguards 011
Reposted by GM FreezeBeyond GM @beyond-gm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Beyond 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... 1129
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Organic 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...organicseurope.bioCall to end patents on seedsA coalition of conventional and organic farmers call for an end to patents on seeds 000
Reposted by GM FreezeSave Our Seeds @saveourseeds.bsky.social · 23/06/2025🌾 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 195
Reposted by GM FreezeSave Our Seeds @saveourseeds.bsky.social · 11/06/2025👀 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 1107
Reposted by GM FreezeGreenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 11/06/2025👀 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 37231
Reposted by GM FreezeGMO-FREE EUROPE @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social · 17/06/2025The 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... 185
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Genetic engineering recognised as false solution to climate change by leading Food Sovereignty organiser at a high-level forum hosted by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome on May 12th viacampesina.org/en/2025/05/c...viacampesina.orgCFS Forum on Tackling Climate Change: Social Movements Raise Alarm About Corporate-Led ‘False Solutions’ to Climate and Ecological CrisesLa Via Campesina and other members of the IPC firmly believe that redistributive land policies are a key solution to current food and ecological crises. The 2024 report by the UN High Commissioner for... 022
Reposted by GM FreezeGMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025New GMOs: freedom of choice only possible through mandatory labelling, warn 44 civil society organisations, Including GMWatch. Removing traceability and labelling of new (NGT) #GMOs undermines the fundamental rights of 450 million EU-citizens. www.foodwatch.org/fileadmin/-I... 012
Reposted by GM FreezeGMWatch @gmwatch.bsky.social · 19/05/2025UK govt promises industry the govt will never find out if a “new GMO” harms health or environment. “The govt’s banning regulators from requiring any tests that could reveal risks arising from these gene-edited GMOs goes against every scientific principle.” — Prof Antoniou gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...gmwatch.orgUK government promises industry it will never find out if a “new GMO” harms health or environmentNew legislation bans government from requiring any safety tests on a “precision bred” GMO that wouldn’t be done on a conventional plant or animal. By Claire Robinson 123
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Happy to be in Athens for the international conference “Science and policy in times of multicrisis and dissent,” organised by the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility &the Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences. 010
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 09/05/2025GM Freeze newsletter: GenTech regulations pass House of Lords - mailchi.mp/gmfreeze/gen... and a meeting exposes challenges and controversies 000
Reposted by GM FreezeRaj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/04/2025Happy International Day of Peasant Struggle! As La Via Campesina observes: From Carajás to Gaza: Peasant Struggles Are Global — To Defend Land, Water, and Territories for Life! viacampesina.org/en/2025/04/f... 093
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Our Seeds, Our Life, Our Future: Promoting Farmer Managed Seed Systems and Resisting Repressive Seed Laws in Africa @afsafrica.bsky.social Campaign aims to galvanize a continent-wide movement to resist the rising tide of corporate-driven, repressive seed laws. afsafrica.org/afsa-marks-i...afsafrica.orgBot Verification 000
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 22/04/2025ICYMI: @yougov.co.uk published poll that #DEFRA tried to keep secret, but which it (ironically) relied on to try and justify a lack of transparency around #NewGMOs theweekinpolls.substack.com/p/defra-trie... thanks @gmwatch.bsky.social for the spot!theweekinpolls.substack.comDefra tries, fails to keep secret a poll used to justify legislationWelcome to the 154th edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP) which takes a look at an attempt by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to withhold polling information - and reveals... 021
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 09/04/2025GM Freeze lodges complaint with DEFRA - its public consultation on the marketing of new GMO seeds is not for the public at all. www.gmfreeze.org/press-releas...gmfreeze.orgGM Freeze lodges complaint over DEFRA seed consultationGM Freeze has today complained to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs about its consultation on the marketing of newer forms of genetically engineered seeds – those dubbed ‘pre… 011
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 04/04/2025House of Commons passes GenTech regulations without mentioning it, and the door is opening for unlabelled, untraceable and un-risk assessed new GMOs. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/04/04/g...gmfreeze.orgGenTech Regulations passed without a whisperLeonie Nimmo reflects on the final stages of a process that will enable the wholesale release of new GMOs. What just happened? To an observer in the House of Commons that was interested in genetic … 064
Reposted by GM FreezeGRAIN @grain.org · 03/04/2025UK government hold public consultation whether or not it will label seeds of new GMOs following the deregulation of new GMOs in 2023. Groups are mobilising public response to challenge this latest threat of GM seeds www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... 📸: @landworkersuk.bsky.social 096
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 02/04/2025“As the impacts of climate change become more severe, African countries must look inward—to our cultures, ecosystems, & indigenous knowledge—for solutions,” quote of day - Simon Bukenya, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa @afsafrica.bsky.social @ launch of report afsafrica.org/afsa-launche...afsafrica.orgBot Verification 010
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Two weeks to go! Tell DEFRA you want to know If the seeds you buy are new GMO consult.defra.gov.uk/defra-aphw-p... More info: www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... 054
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"Only through a vast programme of agroecology, land redistribution and the re-localisation of food systems can we effectively build carbon back into the soils and cut emissions in the food system." Our quote of the day goes to GRAIN, grain.org/en/article/6... bsky.app/profile/grai...grain.orgFrom land grab to soil grab - the new business of carbon farmingThe world's largest agrochemical companies are pushing ahead with carbon credit programmes to enhance their power in the food system and enable big oil, food and tech corporations to avoid cuts to the... 010
Reposted by GM FreezeFriends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 27/03/2025🍔Heard about the Impossible Burger? It ‘bleeds’ like beef, but it’s made in a lab with genetically modified yeast & soy 🧪 It's now pushed for direct human consumption in the 🇪🇺 when we have so many better plant-based alternatives! Explore our cool infographic 👇 friendsoftheearth.eu/impossible-b...friendsoftheearth.euThe Impossible BurgerCheck out the Impossible Burger, a lab-made, genetically-modified meat substitute to taste like real meat - and decide if you would actually want to eat it! 3128
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Stand up for Seed Sovereignty and tell government new GMO seeds must be labelled! www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... More info on the removal of controls over new GMOs: www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/20/t...gmfreeze.orgThis changes everything: New GMOs coming soonLabour sells out farmers and consumers with law removing controls and choice over new GMOs Government scrutiny committee raises concerns; suggests additional questioning in the House of Lords. New … 000
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 14/03/2025"Dark day for Europe" as it jumps over major hurdle towards the deregulation of new GMOs: Council agrees position, opening door 4 negotiations w Parliament & Commission. At stake is labelling, risk assessment, patents & control over Europe's food supply. C thread 4 reports fm allies. Fight not over. 611
Reposted by GM FreezeNina Holland @nina-holland.bsky.social · 13/03/2025👇 Recommended reading: EU Observer on deregulation of new GMOs. 'We have a feeling [that] many things are going through by force; our impression was [that there was] an intention to push it down our throats without proper work done beforehand', said an EU diplomat euobserver.com/green-econom...euobserver.comUnpacking EU’s food fight over new gene-edited supercropsAfter months of standstill, the EU’s plan to ease restrictions on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) could move forward on Friday, pushing efforts from factory farm capitals to bypass concerns from countri... 41318
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 11/03/2025This may be of interest @vickihird.bsky.social? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nest-10-fa...eventbrite.co.ukNest 1.0- Farmed Insect Protein Sector ConferenceCome and join us as we build the farmed insect protein sector at Nest! 110
Reposted by GM FreezeMute Schimpf @muteschimpf.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Mute Schimpf @muteschimpf.bsky.social Who really benefits from new genomic techniques? Farmers and consumers at risk. Look also at our series Who benefits from the deregulation of New GMOs friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/... 053
GM Freeze @gm-freeze.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This looks amazing www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soilsomersethouse.org.ukSOILThis groundbreaking exhibition unites visionary artists and thinkers from around the world to explore the remarkable power and potential of soil. 000
