Natural Cures Not Medicine: A list of Countries that Ban or Restrict GMOs

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A list of Countries that Ban or Restrict GMOs

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These countries have restrictions or have banned GM / GMO foods:


Italy: The four regions Tuscany, Molise, Lazio and Marche and around 25 provinces, cities and communes banned GE crops, including Rome, Milan, Turin, Brescia and Genoa. These are all democratically-taken decisions in local or regional councils and in the case of Tuscany, the result has been ratified by the national government - the decision means that regional governments have been given the authority under Italian law to overturn decisions taken at EU level.


Austria: Bans on three GE maize (Novartis, Monsanto and AgrEvo), the Federal Institute for Less-Favoured and Mountainous Areas is pressing for GM free legislation and published a study on GE-free zones, initiatives in the States of Vorarlberg and Salzburg to ban GE trials.

France: ban of PGS and AgrEvo HR rapeseed

Germany: Ban of Novartis Bt maize. The initiative "No GE on communal land" of BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany) launched activities in several German communities to discuss and vote on the GE-free resolutions. Application are launched in: Bad Vilbel, Blauenstein, Lahr, Konstanz, Hannover, Hamburg. Application are accepted in: M¸nchen, Reutlingen, Freidrichsdorf, Blomberg, Seligenstadt, Niddatal, Maintal, Riedstadt, Adendorf, Schwebheim, Pinneberg, Schwabach, Langenhagen, Wyhe, Burgdorf, Neetze, District Traunstein. Several protestant regional church organisations: banned GE crops from their land: Hannover, Hessen und Nassau, Sachsen, Protestantic Church of Westfalen, Protestantic Church in Berlin-Brandenburg, Church Province of Sachsen.

Peru: http://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2013/05/peru-bans-gmo.html

Luxembourg: Ban of Novartis Bt maize.

Portugal: Ban of Novartis Bt maize.

Greece: Ban of AgrEvo HR rapeseed, moratorium of GE crop trials.

Spain: The Basque Government went for a five year blanket moratorium for GMOs. The Basque Government claims full powers for agricultural policy and thus that they can provisionally ban GMOs if they so wish. The three provinces of Castilla-La Mancha and Baleares banned GE food, AndalucÌa declared a five year moratorium on GE crop trials and GE food.

UK: The Church of England has refused permission for GE crop trials on 60,000 hectares of its land, dozens of local authorities supply GE free school lunches, the House of Commons banned GE foods for its catering. The vote of the Welsh Assembly to keep Wales GE free was counteracted by the ministry of Agriculture approving a GE maize variety. The Island of Jersey banned GE crops.

Switzerland: Although a center of GE science and industry, only two trials with GE potatoes in 1991/92 have been performed until now.

Norway: Banned the import of several GE crops and products which contain antibiotic resistance genes.

Australia: The State of Tasmania banned GE rapeseed as weed, Western Australia has banned commercial GE planting. Australian States are given the right to declare themselves GE free. Some communities (e.g. Bondi/Sydney, West Wimmera Shire) declared themselves GE free.

New Zealand: Some local bodies in Auckland and Wellington have declared themselves GM free. Trials with GE salmon have been blocked by the government.

Thailand: Banned imports of 40 GE crops for commercial planting, but not for research purposes.

Philippines: The community of Valencia called for a five-year moratoria on GE food and GE crop trials and commercialization. The Philippine president announced a moratorium on GE crop research.

Saudi Arabia: Banned food that are made from GMOs and declared not to import GE wheat.


Algeria: Banned the import, distribution, commercialisation and utilization of GE plants except for research purposes.

Brazil: Planting GE seeds is prohibited by federal law in Brazil for the time being, the States of Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso do Sul have declared their intentions to remain GM-free, 18 States called upon the Central government to block commercial GE crop planting.

Paraguay: The Ministry of Agriculture plans to ban GE crops from commercial planting.

USA: Various bills calling for moratoria on GE food (Vermont), bans of GE wheat (North Dakota, Montana) have been filed within the last year. Several municipalities declared moratoria on GE food (Burlington/Vermont), bans of GE crops (City of Boulder/Colorado), or urged the federal government to ban GE food (City and County of San Francisco/California). Many attempts to adopt such bills or resolutions failed in the past.

  • GMO-free Regions by Country

So, Who is next? And my next question... Do you think I'm crazy still?

15 comments:

  1. "Western Australia has banned commercial GE planting."

    Unfortunately outdated. The current right wing government has allowed GM farming in Canola and at least one Wheat farm in the South West, with more to follow, I fear.

    GM Canola is now widespread here...

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  2. "Western Australia has banned commercial GE planting."

    Unfortunately outdated. WA now has GM Canola and at least one GM Wheat farm. GM Canola is now rife...

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  3. What about Ecuador? GMO has been banned under the 2008 Constitution

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  4. WHY IS CANADA NOT ON THIS LIST?

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  5. Was originally only interested in labelling. Now I want a ban. Am in Canada and it looks like we will have to have a bigger fight on this.

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  6. Kudos to all these countries!!! Has it occurred to anyone else that maybe the U.S. hasn't followed suit, ah, because MONSANTO is an American Company, who buys American Politicians, and is apparently backed by our American President??? (MONSANTO Protection Act) It is no wonder to me, why we ate hated by so many other countries...what give us the right to poisen the world??? This greed based behavior HAS TO STOP!!!

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  7. Ban NOT Labeling....................PERIOD!!!!!

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  8. We are a far cry from being a free country when its getting harder and harder to find and purchase healthy food let alone have the right to know what we are eating.

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  9. Are we a free country when we no longer have access to healthy food and water? Isles and isles of unhealthy food in the big supermarkets and small sections of overpriced organic next to who knows what we are getting anymore and how much pesticide has been used to grow this pretty piece of fruit we buy instead. We buy bottled water because our tap water tastes like crap and the extra flouride makes it impossible to sprout seeds. Yes there are water filters but how assessible is this to our free nation where all men are created equal?

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  10. what about the carribbean islands and central america?

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  11. what about the Caribbean islands and central america?

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