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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”.

Detective Pig investigates soy production in South America and finds out the truth behind a new label for 'responsible' soy. These 'responsible' producers cut down the rainforest to grow soy beans using GM seeds, and toxic herbicides. They are then shipped to Europe to be fed to animals in factory farms.

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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.

Assembly Members supporting the GM-free Wales scarecrows campaign. Photo: Lyndsay Maiden, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

** Campaign update **

Thanks to your efforts the National Assembly for Wales passed a strong law that prevented GM crops from being grown in Wales. The UK Government later abandoned it's attempts to grow GM crops in the UK.

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

Local group members take No to GM message to London. Photo: Julian Rosser, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

Friends of the Earth Europe has called for a "root and branch" reform of the world trade system after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruled against EU attempts to protect its people and environment from genetically modified (GM) foods and crops.