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BASF, the German chemical giant, has announced is to end its genetically modified (GM) plant development in Europe and move it to the US, where political and consumer resistance to GM crops isn't so strong.

BASF fought for 13 years before the European Union approved them cultivating their Amflora potato, in 2010. However, German test sites had to be put under constant guard and activists still succeeded in destroying potato fields.

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The Costa Rican Coordination Network on Biodiversity calling for European consumers to take action after the Costa Rican Government granted LM Veintiuno permission to expand the area cultivated with a genetically modified (GM) pineapple called “Piña Rose”.

This action is now closed. Thank you to everyone who took part.

In March the European Commission gave the go ahead to the first genetically modified crop to be grown in Europe since 1998. This decision has been condemned by Friends of the Earth Europe.

Local Food at Cardiff's Riverside Market on Taff Embankment. Photo: Lindsay Maiden, Cardiff Friends of the Earth.

Food is traveling further than ever, often hundreds of miles from where it was produced to where is was consumed. Small businesses, family farms, local abattoirs are all going out of business as a result.