Berlin, 2 December 2025 — An alliance of environmental and farming organisations protested today outside the Federal Chancellery against plans to deregulate genetically modified plants created with new genetic modification (GM) techniques. The groups urged the German government to reject any deal emerging from tomorrow’s EU trilogue negotiations unless essential safeguards are included.
The alliance is calling for these minimum protections:
- Mandatory risk assessment before any commercial release of GM plants,
- Mandatory labelling of all GM products,
- Effective coexistence rules to protect GMO-free agriculture, and
- A ban on patents on plants.
The action was supported by Greenpeace, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland (BUND), Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR), Gen-ethisches Netzwerk, Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), Save Our Seeds, AbL, the German Organic Food Industry Association (BÖLW), Biokreis, Demeter, and Bioland.
As part of the protest, activists set a symbolic table for the Chancellor to highlight the threat of unlabelled GMOs appearing on citizens’ plates.
Naomi Kosmehl, Campaign Coordinator at Save Our Seeds, helped organise the demonstration and said:
Europeans have made it clear, time and again, that we do not want GMOs. We cannot accept a situation in which government and agribusiness work hand in hand to introduce GMOs into our fields and onto our plates while denying citizens the right to know when they are being used. This must be stopped.
Images are available for download here. Photographer: Nick Jaussi
Contact: Franziska Achterberg – Head of Policy and Advocacy at Save Our Seeds, +32 498 362403,
Save Our Seeds is a campaign run by the Foundation on Future Farming. Since 2002, it has successfully spearheaded efforts to avoid GMO contamination of seeds and maintain precautionary GMO legislation at national and EU levels. Current campaigns also include efforts to Stop Gene Drives.
Image © Nick Jaussi