Why did Germany ban Mon 810? Heike Moldenhauer

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Why did Germany ban Mon 810? Heike Moldenhauer
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GMO free regions
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GMO free municipalities
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EDEKA action
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Factors for success

• Campaign targets farmers and consumers
• Five years tradition in founding GMO free regions
  and local resistence
• Broad alliance cooperation FOE and Association
  of Familiy Farmers (Via Campesina), other
  Farmers networks, beekeepers, Greenpeace, etc.
• Political circumstances
• Bavarias CSU lost absolute majority last autumn
  due to GMOs, too
• Federal agriculture minister is from Bavaria
• EU and national elections cause stress

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What did work against Mon 810?

• Local actions demonstrations in Aigners
  constituency
• Online-campaining (Campact) Mrs Aigner, ban Mon
  810
• (50 000 emails)
• Lobbying on national and Bavarian level
• Press work
• Own study Evaluation of all studies done since
  2007