Our message for Moyresa: STOP GE IMPORTS

Today saw 18 Greenpeace activists making a peaceful protest at the Moyresa seed processing facilities in Portugalete (Bizkaia); they were asking Bunge, which owns Moyresa, to make the plant GE free as a first step on the way to stoping all processing and selling of GMOs in Spain.

The protestors were dressed up as cows, pigs and chickens to illustrate that most of the seeds from these units end up as animal feed. To get their message across they carried banners saying 'We don't want GMOs' and 'Moyresa: say no to GMOs'.

This is not the first time that our activists in Spain have tried to get their message across to the people in charge of Moyresa - in fact we visited many Bunge businesses across Europe this spring. However after a protest at its Cartegena facility the company stated that the Portugalete plant was going GE free.

"If Moyresa don't make good on their statement they will let down the Spanish people, their customers and deny consumers their right to choose NON GE food," said Juan Felipe Carrasco, our GE campaigner in Spain. "Moyresa has to commit to import, process and sell only NON GE produce in all of the facilities they have in Spain."

In spite of requests from cattle farmers and consumer rejection, the Portugalete plant continues to process GE and non-GE soya without segregation. Our campaigners have asked for a meeting with Moyresa's managers to ask them for a public commitment on a non-GE policy.

Spain is the second European soya importer, with six million tons per year, coming from Argentina and Brazil. Greenpeace estimates that around four million of this soya is GE. Moyresa is key to the GE situation as it controls 70 percent of the Spanish market and is a subsidiary of Bunge, the biggest soya processor and exporter in the Americas and the biggest worldwide processor of oil seeds.

Find out more and take action:

- To find our more about Bunge and our actions over the spring read: On the Bunge trail

- Take action and keep Bunge out of China and take part in our Great Cyber Wall challenge.

- For more information about the implications of the new EU labelling and traceability rules read this.

-Check out our animation GE Soya Cycle Exposed to see where GE animal feed comes from.

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