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12 Sep 2015
European Parliament: Victory for cloning opponents
MEPs supported the total ban on cloning farm animals in Europe and on the import of cloned food and feed. Source: EP...
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08 Sep 2015
Cloning vote splits EC and European Parliament
The European Commission (EC) has attacked the European Parliament’s vote (8 September 2015) to completely ban use of cloned animals and their descendants for domestic and impor...
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07 Sep 2015
Cloning for food: MEPs vote on plans to ban the practice
Should cloning for food be banned because of animal welfare concerns? On Tuesday 8 September MEPs debate and vote on amendments to a European Commission proposal to ban the cloning...
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31 Aug 2015
France boosts efforts to tackle food waste
France’s Minister for Ecology, Ségolène Royale, has obtained a series of commitments from French supermarket chains to limit food waste. She also hopes to change the EU’s exp...
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25 Aug 2015
Germany initiates move to ban GMO crops
Germany has instigated a move to stop the growing of genetically modified crops under new European Union rules, according to official documents. Read more here....
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13 Aug 2015
EU wastes tonnes of food, and UK is the worst offender
The European Union wastes about 22 million tonnes of food a year and Britain wastes the most, according to a study by European Commission-backed researchers. Read more here....
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24 Jul 2015
British lawmakers demand action from Juncker on food waste
The House of Lords, along with 16 member states, sent a letter to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on 22 July demanding that the EU crack down on food waste. Read the Eurac...
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20 Jul 2015
Minister Coveney: Common Agricultural Policy simplification will ease the burden on farmers
Simon Coveney, Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, was a lead negotiator of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy during his country’s EU presidency in ...
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16 Jul 2015
GMO imports: MEPs object to draft law allowing national bans, call for plan B
A draft EU law that would enable any member state to restrict or prohibit the use of EU-approved GMO food or feed on its territory was strongly opposed by MEPs from all political g...
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03 Jul 2015
Foodwatch boss: ‘Europeans will not stomach TTIP anymore’
The EU-US free trade agreement, TTIP, is a big lie, says Thilo Bode, the director of the NGO Foodwatch, discussing his latest book on the transatlantic trade deal. Click here to re...
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03 Jul 2015
Dossier: GMO cultivation in Europe – A decade of legal battles
The European Union has agreed on a new approach to the cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) which allows member states to ban or restrict GMOs in their territory. Th...
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30 Jun 2015
WHO re-classifies Agent Orange herbicide as ‘carcinogenic’
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified the common herbicide 2.4-Dichlorophenoxyacet acid as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”. Read EurAc...
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