Various organisations participating in the FSN ask new MEPs their commitment to help restoring innovation and sound science as the basis for policies, regulations and decision making dealing with farming, including those related to the use of genetically modified crops.

Dear Member of the European Parliament,

We write to you on behalf of the European farmers’ organisations listed below and the Public Research and Regulation Initiative (PRRI). The farmers’ organisations below support the freedom of farmers to choose the crop varieties, including approved genetically modified (GM) varieties, they find best suited to address the increasing and changing challenges in farming.

At the occasion of World Food Day, various organisations participating in the FSN expressed in an open letter to the EU Institutions their concern about the impact of EU GMO policies and regulations on the potential of modern biotechnology to strengthen sustainable food production.…

In a letter to the MEPs of the Development committee of the European Parliament various organisations participating in the FSN denounce the biased report by the Ecologic Institute and its recommendation to not promote GMOs in development policies.…

In a letter to the UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Mr Owen Paterson, various organisations participating in the FSN have expressed their  support for his comments at the 2013 Oxford Farming Conference and at the 2013 NFU conference, supporting access to new technologies, including GM, for farmers, as well as for his statement on the importance of considering respected scientific opinion showing that the GM crops that are approved to date pose no greater risk than conventional crops.…

After the September 2012 article “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize” by Seralini et al, suggesting that rats developed cancer after being fed with genetically modified herbicide tolerant maize, various organisations participating in the FSN state that this research is so fundamentally flawed that the conclusions have no basis –  Here the statement on the flawed Seralini Rats Study:…

Various organisations participating in the FSN ask to the MEPs of the AGRI and ENVI Committees and to the heads of national delegations to reject the Lepage report, denouncing that the proposed changes to EU rules for GMO cultivation contained in the report have wider negative consequences on global food security, public research and EU farming.…