on Feb 11, 2019
Het Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie (VIB) plantte vorig jaar een GGO-maïs veld aan zonder daarvoor de wettelijk geldende procedures te volgen! De overheid kneep daarbij niet alleen een oogje dicht, maar moedigde het VIB er zelfs toe aan. Nadat het Europese Hof besliste dat ook voor nieuwe GGOs de bestaande wetgeving gevolgd moet worden, werd het veld snel geregulariseerd. ...
on Nov 6, 2017
How Belgian technology development can impact South-American communities 20th of November 2017 Film-Plateau, Paddenhoek 3 GENT 19h30. Doors open 19h00 Under the banner of promoting the ‘bio-economy’, scientists of the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology (VIB) and Ghent University take part in a worldwide contest to genetically engineer trees in order to ease the conversion of...
on Jun 9, 2017
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on Mar 21, 2017
On the UN International Day of Forests, the Belgian action group Field Liberation Movement (FLM) published a new animated video that explains the flaws behind the GMO poplar tree field trial taking place in the Flemish countryside. The GM poplars have been modified to be weaker, as researchers hope this will enhance their ability to...
on Mar 20, 2017
Request a licence to cut the floppy GE poplars grown on the test fields of the Flemish research institutes (VIB & ILVO) in Wetteren. You can add your personal details in the form at the right hand side of the screen. We will fill out the standardized form in and send it to minister Joke...
on Nov 22, 2016
Would you like to know a bit more about the floppy GM poplars, here is a video for you, in Dutch, with English subtitles.
on Nov 21, 2016
Short videoclip on the action of Sunday 20 of November in Wetteren, in the field with genetically modified poplars of the VIB (Flemish Institute of Biotechnology) where activists planted a license to cut on the field for the Flemish Minister in charge, Joke Schauvliege.
on Nov 21, 2016
Miembr*s del Field Liberation Movement adjudican un permiso de corte a Joke Schauvliege para cortar los árboles genéticamente modificados en un experimento de campo en Wetteren. (Wetteren, Bélgica – 20 de noviembre 2016) Al finalizar la cumbre sobre cambio climático en Marrakech, un*s 20 miembros del Field Liberation Movement (FLM) pusieron carteles con un permiso...
on Nov 20, 2016
(Wetteren – 20th November 2016) At the end of the climate summit in Marrakesh, 20 activists from the Field Liberation Movement planted a “permit to cut” in a field of GMO poplar trees belonging to the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology. The permit was given symbolically to Joke Schauvliege, the Flemish Minister responsible for climate...
