we were not involved as no patents on seeds coalition. looks interesting
-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [New-gm-eur] Report out today: Exposed - How 2 biotech giants use patents and new GMOs to control the future of food Datum: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 08:58:44 +0200 Von: Brigitte Reisenberger brigitte.reisenberger@global2000.at An: new-gm-eur@lists.corporateeurope.org
Dear all,
our Patent-Report is out! https://www.global2000.at/sites/global/files/GLOBAL2000_NeueGentechnik_Paten...
/Our report looks at the race for patents against the backdrop of proposed changes to GM regulations in the European Union for new GM techniques. It explores the implications for farmers, plant breeders and the wider food chain, and calls for a new approach to protecting genetic diversity and ensuring agricultural resilience. The use of patents for new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) such as CRISPR/Cas has resulted in a small group of corporations controlling key aspects of the food system, with the biotech giant, Corteva Agriscience in pole position. Patents pose a threat to farmers and food producers, with patent applications already affecting dozens of plant varieties, giving corporations control over crops and seeds, limiting access to genetic diversity and threatening future food security. In some cases, the big biotech corporations are blurring the distinction between GMOs and conventional breeding techniques by patenting traits that can occur both natually or as a result of genetic engineering - claiming all plants with those traits as their “invention”. Yet the same corporations argue that new GMOs should be excluded from the European Union’s safety checks and labelling requirements for genetically modified food because, they claim, they are the same as natural plants. Our report warns that the patent rules are being abused and the consequences of exempting new GMOs from GM regulations could be dire for climate resilience and the future of our food./
--> FOE-E and CEO will release it today as well and will let you know as soon as it is launched in Brussels!
This was a truely collective effort over the last months - big thanks to Friends of the Earth Europe, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), ARCHE NOAH, IG Saatgut – Interessensgemeinschaft für gentechnikfreie Saatgutarbeit, Arbeiterkammer Wien and GLOBAL 2000.
The press release here in German: https://www.global2000.at/presse/patente-auf-gentechnik and first articles: https://orf.at/stories/3290292/
We were at CORTEVA in Parndorf, Austria yesterday with a huge maize and Patented/GMOs signs! See the *Video* here: https://twitter.com/global2000/status/1582959817978568704 Please RETWEET, Like, Comment and make noise :)
More photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/global2000/sets/72177720297024353/
All best,
Brigitte
