“1. The GM issue is very much a part of the Food Chain campaign. The most widely grown GM crop in the world is soy, mostly grown for animal feed and largely exported to Europe. Therefore although we are campaigning against soy imports more widely, the impacts of GM soy are also explicitly dealt with. In particular, the Food Chain campaign will soon be focussing on the massive increases in the use of pesticides that occurs as a result of GM soy.

2. The import of GM animal feed into Europe is one of the biggest threats to Europe’s strong stand against GMOs. Pro-GM governments and biotech companies are using animal feed shortages around the world to aggressively campaign for weakening European Union GMO law. We are working alongside Friends of the Earth Europe to keep these laws strong.

3. We are also working internationally to counter the biotech companies aggressive pushing of GM as a solution to the climate and food crises.

So although we don’t have a ‘GM campaign’ as such, we are still very much working on it in a variety of ways!”