Tag Archives: Europe

In a weekend of fury against Bayer/Monsanto the French media has gone on the attack against the powerful company’s lobbying, fake news and bullying tactics. Glyphosate:...

The European pesticide regulation and its implementation need to be improved, says a draft report from a committee of the European Parliament, published...

France took a radical step towards protecting its dwindling bee population last Saturday by becoming the first country in Europe to ban five pesticides...

The amount of the herbicide atrazine that’s released into the environment in the United States is likely harming most species of plants and animals,...

Lithuanian Agriculture Minister,  Virginija Baltraitienė, announced last week that the Baltic country has demanded an EU opt-out regarding the growing...

Latvia and Greece are the first countries in the EU to have had their geographical opt-out’s from growing GM crops accepted by Monsanto. Many other...

The World Health Organisation’s cancer agency has declared the world’s most widely used weedkiller – glyphosate – a “probable human carcinogen”...

Wiesenhof, the largest German poultry producer, has announced that it will turn back to using GM-free animal feed due to consumer demand. Wiesenhof’s...

Germany’s top supermarkets, the powerhouses of Europe when it comes to retail, have delivered a blow to the biotech industry by forcing the German poultry...

A new GM law being discussed in Brussels this week could grant biotech companies, like Monsanto and Syngenta, unprecedented power over decisions on whether...