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Corporations Control Our Food

Corporations Control Our Food

Background | 20 August, 2015 at 23:50

Industrial ag is a system with an expiration date. It’s only a few decades old but just start adding up the environmental costs we are incurring by his broken system. More and more polluted waterways, clear-cut forests, inhumane treatment of...

Biohazard - Stopping GE wheat

Biohazard - Stopping GE wheat

Feature story | 5 June, 2003 at 2:00

Activists have quarantined a government-run farm in Canada to expose the risks of Monsanto's genetically engineered wheat. The approval of GE wheat would not only a potential environmental disaster but will clearly be a commercial disaster for...

Problem: Our Food System Is Broken

Problem: Our Food System Is Broken

Topic | 26 August, 2015 at 0:30

Greenpeace is launching a food revolution and we won’t be successful unless you and your friends take part. Our Food and Farming campaign envisions a future built upon “ecological farming.” It’s a future where progressive ecological farmers...

Brazilian soya and maize exporters gain markets – biggest wins yet to come if non-GE status secured

Brazilian soya and maize exporters gain markets – biggest wins yet to come if non-GE...

Press release | 10 June, 2002 at 2:00

European Patent Office forced to reconsider DuPont patent on maize

European Patent Office forced to reconsider DuPont patent on maize

Press release | 12 February, 2003 at 1:00

 

Genetically Engineered Food Snubbed by Consumers in China

Genetically Engineered Food Snubbed by Consumers in China

Press release | 17 January, 2003 at 1:00

New GM food could end up on your plate untested and unlabelled

New GM food could end up on your plate untested and unlabelled

Blog entry by Franziska Achterberg | 24 January, 2016

After two decades of commercial use, Europeans still can't stomach genetically modified (GM) food. But their producers may have found a way to bypass public opposition and safety regulation. A new range of GM plants and animals could...

The future of food: a necessary road map from uniformity to diversity

The future of food: a necessary road map from uniformity to diversity

Blog entry by Herman van Bekkem | 21 June, 2016

Are you concerned about pesticides in your food? Are you wondering how we could switch to more ecological farming? Then you’ll be excited about this report. It’s by an independent group of experts on food security, agro-ecosystems...

Seeing is believing: Growing food for people, with people and with nature in Cuba

Seeing is believing: Growing food for people, with people and with nature in Cuba

Blog entry by Reyes Tirado | 13 January, 2017 2 comments

“Ojos hacen fe.” Those are the words of Lucy Martín, an inspiring Cuban researcher with Oxfam in Havana. She has lived through decades of change in Cuba, while remaining grounded in the reality of farmers there. She uses...

Greenpeace protests against Nestle´s double standards on genetically engineered food

Greenpeace protests against Nestle´s double standards on genetically engineered food

Press release | 6 June, 2002 at 2:00

Greenpeace confronts GE-ship on Polish waters

Greenpeace confronts GE-ship on Polish waters

Press release | 17 November, 2005 at 1:00

Greenpeace today stopped the unloading of the “Hope”, a vessel carrying about 25.000 tonnes of genetically engineered (GE) soya from Argentina in the Polish port of Gdynia. Greenpeace activists from ten European countries surrounded the ship in...

Greenpeace campaign bears fruits: Aldi Süd bans bee-harming pesticides

Press release | 18 January, 2016 at 13:41

Hamburg/Amsterdam, 18 January 2016 – Aldi Süd is the first big retailer in Europe to ban eight bee-harming pesticides from domestic fruits and vegetables produced for their markets.

EU Commission and Agricultural Ministers asked to stop license to contaminate Europe with genetically engineered crops

EU Commission and Agricultural Ministers asked to stop license to contaminate Europe...

Press release | 14 October, 2002 at 2:00

 

World Food Summit in danger of stepping back from its 1996 commitment and give in to US pressure

World Food Summit in danger of stepping back from its 1996 commitment and give in to...

Press release | 10 June, 2002 at 2:00

Illegal GE rice contaminates food chain in China

Illegal GE rice contaminates food chain in China

Press release | 13 April, 2005 at 2:00

Greenpeace is calling for an urgent, international product recall after uncovering the illegal release of a variety of genetically engineered (GE) rice in China. The GE rice has not been approved for human consumption and may have contaminated...

Sailing under false pretences

Sailing under false pretences

Press release | 6 November, 2003 at 1:00

A fleet of 5 whaling vessels sailing shortly from Japan to the Antarctic is operating under false pretences, Greenpeace said today.

Summit on world hunger

Summit on world hunger

Feature story | 10 June, 2002 at 2:00

In 1996, world governments committed to halving hunger. Now they're being called to account for lack of progress toward this goal.

World Food Day - Threat of GE rice looms

World Food Day - Threat of GE rice looms

Press release | 15 October, 2004 at 2:00

The possible commercialisation of genetically engineered rice (GE) in China next year is a serious threat to the food safety of the world’s most populous nation, Greenpeace warned today, on the eve of World Food Day.

Why are there pesticides in our eggs?

Why are there pesticides in our eggs?

Blog entry by Christiane Huxdorff and Davin Hutchins | 11 August, 2017 1 comment

In case you missed the news this week, here’s what we know so far: during the first week in August, the Dutch food safety authority (NWMA) announced that they discovered tens of thousands of eggs contaminated with fipronil - a toxic...

Research shows switching to organic food can reduce pesticide levels in urine

Press release | 19 December, 2016 at 5:29

Tokyo, 19 December 2016 - Traces of pesticides in urine have been found to decrease significantly among people, particularly children, who moved from a conventional to an organic diet. The findings come from a study involving two Japanese...

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