Young European Greens see Europe’s future GMO free

03.10.2006: The Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) condemns the WTO complaint about the EU’s moratorium on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) because it supposedly broke international rules on trade.

Ernest Urtasun, spokesperson of FYEG, says: "FYEG strongly regrets that the moratorium fell and we urgently call for a new one that would ensure that no GMO enters the European Union. We strongly support the ban on GMOs as it is kept in some countries and regions.”

Ska Keller, spokesperson of FYEG, adds: "GMOs are not a matter of trade but of health and the maintenance of our biodiversity. Once the GMOs spread they cannot be taken back and they will change our bio system completely. Nobody knows, how and to which extend this will happen and what the results will be nor what the consequences of consumption of GMO-food are in the long term, we cannot allow GMOs to be produced and spread. We only have this one world and its rich biodiversity, we better not destroy it.”

In 2004/5 FYEG ran the campaign "Tell me what I eat!” which focussed on GMOs versus organic farming.