*[Enwl-eng] Years in the making
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Hi,
The EU has just agreed to make our food safer, [1] and now it’ll be harder for poisons like glyphosate to enter the market. It took years of campaigning to make it happen, and we’ve won!
And it wouldn’t have happened without our European Citizens' Initiative against glyphosate. [2] In six months, more than a million people joined the call. We wanted the weedkiller to be banned, and we also demanded that approval for all poisons be made more transparent. Now we’ll have the transparency we’ve been demanding!
So much went into this: fighting alongside partner organisations, [3] a European day of action, expert reports, media briefings and of course all the donations, signatures, and emails from us, the WeMove community.
Thanks to this win, the EU will have to publish the next safety studies that Monsanto (now Bayer) will submit later this year. But in order to prove that glyphosate is not safe, we have to hire the best independent scientists to analyse the studies! Will you help us to fund independent scrutiny of these glyphosate studies?
| Yes, I’ll donate €8 |
| Yes, I’ll donate €15 |
| Yes, I’ll donate €30 |
| Yes, I’ll surprise you! |
This EU decision is a bitter blow to the agriculture industry and a win for all Europeans. We’re now set to have the world’s most transparent food regime!
For decades, the EU's food-safety process was hidden from the public and kept secret to protect commercial interests. Now companies like Bayer/Monsanto will have to prove, in public, that the substances they use are safe. Independent scientists will have access to the reports and companies will no longer be able to hide unwelcome scientific results. [4]
As a citizens' movement we joined this campaign back in 2015 and in February 2017 we launched the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), which very quickly gathered steam and media attention. It's only the fourth successful ECI ever, and it gathered support faster than any other ECI to date.
Our unique power lays in the cooperation between European citizens to bring their voices together where politicians make their decisions. This is a huge win, but as we grow, so do corporate interests, and as the threats to our environment multiply so will our efforts.
Help us celebrate this win by donating:
| Yes, I’ll donate €8 |
| Yes, I’ll donate €15 |
| Yes, I’ll donate €30 |
| Yes, I’ll surprise you! |
With gratitude,
Jörg (Lübeck) and the rest of the team at
WeMove.EU
PS: The campaign against glyphosate was the first campaign I launched for WeMove.EU. I remember the first action clearly, the anxious feeling whether we could really win this. Now we’re celebrating this success and it makes me proud. Every donation we receive makes this possible. Consider becoming a donor towards this unstoppable movement.
References:
[1]
https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2019/02/13/We-have-heard-the-call-for-greater-transparency-Europe-boosting-trust-in-the-science-of-food-safety
[2]
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-19-1030_en.htm
[3] Here
are just some of the partners we worked with: Campact, Greenpeace, PAN Europe,
PAN Germany, GLOBAL2000, Corporate Europe Observatory, Avaaz, SumOfUs, Health
and Environment Alliance, Danmarks Naturfredningsforening, Umweltinstitut
München e.V., Mouvement Ecologique, Ecologistas en Acción, Générations Futures,
over 100 other European organisations, and more than a million European
citizens.
[4]
https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/food-safety-midnight-deal-for-revised-general-food-law/
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