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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

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

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...

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

Press release | 17 January, 2003 at 1:00

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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?

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...

Stolen Fish Off the Menu

Press release | 19 April, 2006 at 2:00

Stolen fish from West Africa that was destined for the dinner tables of Europe will be confiscated by the Spanish government.

Bio-Safety Protocol must prevent developing countries from becoming an illegal GMO...

Press release | 13 March, 2006 at 11:22

Curitiba, Monday, March 13, 2006- Greenpeace today called upon the representatives of the 132 member states of the International Biosafety Protocol to agree upon reliable and fair standards of identification and labelling of genetically...

Monsanto Wages War on Consumers, Farmers and the Environment

Press release | 22 May, 2003 at 2:00

 

EU and US GE dispute at WTO

Publication | 12 May, 2006 at 19:26

Greenpeace briefing paper on the EU-US dispute at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on genetically engineered (GE) organisms

Food Security and Climate Change

Publication | 1 December, 2008 at 1:00

Climate change will profoundly affect agriculture worldwide.Food security in many countries is under threat from unpredictable changes in rainfall and more frequent extreme weather. Farmers in poorer countries with harsh climate conditions will...

Illegal genetically modified organisms found in Germany

Feature story | 11 September, 2009 at 2:00

Residents of Germany, (and the rest of you Europeans) watch your breakfast! We've just learned there's a secret genetically-engineered ingredient in some of your food that shouldn't be there.

Island contaminated by illegal GMO

Feature story | 5 September, 2007 at 18:03

Environmental activists today placed an entire island under strict quarantine after finding illegal genetically modified (GMO) soya being grown there.

Crop Circles Appear on Three Continents

Feature story | 3 October, 2006 at 19:43

Huge crop circles in maize fields in Mexico, Spain and Philippines have appeared as we launch a global campaign to protect the home of maize from genetic contamination.

Banned: GE Rice Imports

Feature story | 29 September, 2006 at 19:51

Just weeks after we uncovered US rice on supermarket shelves in Europe contained illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice, the scandal keeps growing with more illegal GE rice being discovered. In the latest blow for the GE industry, the world's...

GE Maps censored by French Court

Feature story | 27 July, 2006 at 2:00

If you fly over the south of France you might be tempted to believe that aliens have landed with a huge crop circle appearing in a field of maize. But the aliens aren't from a distant galaxy; it's Genetically Engineered (GE) maize from the...

GE papaya in the dock in Thailand court case

Feature story | 1 June, 2006 at 19:22

The trial of two Greenpeace activists at the Bangkok Criminal Court closed today with the activists facing three criminal counts and up to five years jail time if convicted. Their alleged crime? Exposing the role of the Thai Department of...

Swiss vote NO to GE

Feature story | 28 November, 2005 at 1:00

Last Sunday, people turned up at polling booths across Switzerland in a referendum to determine whether genetically engineered (GE) crops and animals can be grown in the alpine nation during the next five years. Their verdict in each and every...

Brazil can be GE free

Feature story | 12 February, 2003 at 1:00

The commercial growing of genetically engineered (GE) crops in Brazil has been blocked by legal injunctions for several years now. Crucial decisions about these injunctions might be made in the few next weeks. Agrochemical giant Monsanto is...

Bayer pulls out of India

Feature story | 15 November, 2004 at 1:00

Bayer has pulled out of GE research in India after sustained pressure from Greenpeace; this is the biotech giant's third defeat this year proving just how unsustainable and unwanted GE agriculture is.

GE papaya scandal in Thailand

Feature story | 27 July, 2004 at 2:00

We warned the Thai government over a year ago not to play with genetically engineered (GE) papaya but they didn't listen. Although trials of the engineered food crop are banned, it seems they couldn't resist having a go themselves. Now they have...

Argentina shows GE not hunger solution

Feature story | 9 June, 2002 at 2:00

As governments tackle the problem of hunger at the UN World Food Summit, Greenpeace released a report showing how genetically engineered (GE) crops increase poverty, while failing to address hunger.

Negative GE study suppressed

Feature story | 16 May, 2002 at 2:00

A secret European Union (EU) study states that large-scale production of GE crops would bring high additional, in some cases unsustainable costs of production.

1 million Europeans call for GMO labelling on milk, meat and eggs

Press release | 5 February, 2007 at 1:00

Greenpeace today delivered to Markos Kyprianou, European Commissioner for Health, a petition containing 1,000,000 citizens' signatures calling for the labelling of milk, meat, eggs and other animal products where the animals have been fed with...

Greenpeace, Jose Bové protest against genetically engineered soy on high seas

Press release | 25 January, 2005 at 1:00

This morning the Greenpeace-ship Esperanza intercepted the bulk carrier 'Golden Lion' 140 nautical miles off the coast of Portugal. The Golden Lion is transporting 30.000 tons of genetically engineered soy from Argentina to France. Onboard the...

One Million People Waiting

Feature story | 5 February, 2007 at 18:25

European citizens have long rejected genetically engineered (GE) food in their supermarkets but under the current EU labelling laws, animal products such as milk, meat and eggs coming from animals fed with GE feed can be sold without any labels...

Mexican Crop Circle asks the question

Feature story | 14 August, 2006 at 2:00

John Lundberg, a professional cropcircle maker talks about his latest work, a giant question mark in a maize field in Mexico and working with us.

Outdoor pharming puts food supply at risk

Feature story | 15 November, 2002 at 1:00

Two recently disclosed cases of contamination of the US food supply drive home the inherent dangers of turning plants into mini-factories, producing protein-based pharmaceuticals in fields right next to fields of food crops.

GM crops flunk the test

Feature story | 3 October, 2003 at 2:00

The debate on Genetically Modified (GM) crops is often a polarised one with environmentalists and the majority of sceptical consumers against the crops and powerful corporate interests attempting to steamroller all opposition. Now those companies...

Politicians dawdle as fish disappear

Feature story | 20 December, 2002 at 1:00

Despite stark warnings from scientists that many fish stocks in the North Sea are close to collapse EU politicians did as they have always done over fish stocks - fudged the issue so both the fish and the fishermen will lose out eventually.

Eat this or die

Feature story | 30 September, 2002 at 2:00

Zambian president Levy Mwananwasa's rejection this month of US food aid shocked the world. With child malnutrition soaring to 59 percent in his drought-stricken country, how dare he turn down this generous gift of maize?

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