Talk:Bioland

EU eco-regulation

I noticed that they claimed that the EU organic standards allow genetically modified seed, in contrast to Bioland's higher standard. When I went to the above EU policy site, it said that genetic modification was not permitted under their organic standard. However, this does not necessarily exclude the use of GE seed. A bit confusing. I tried to find the regulation on blood and bone meal in the EU site, but had difficulty navigating it and finally gave up.Catrinka Trabont (talk) 04:39, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

The thing is that the organic standards will leave some parts "unregulated" which make them permissible. I have looked into references - both original and of secondary nature - adding to the "Comparison of organic certification" in the German wikipedia.

The topic of GMO is an old argument of the traditional organic labels which do not have the 0,9% rule of the EU eco regulation. This has not changed as the EU text reads "products containing GMOs may not be labelled as organic unless the ingredients containing GMOs entered the products unintentionally and the GMO proportion in the ingredient is less than 0.9%". The traditional labels (and from a German POV they are traditional) have rallied this rule ever since the inception of the EU eco regulation as being not needed at all and only raising chances for abuse - so you'll find this point in every comparison of every organic certification scheme in Germany. Even if you do find the 0,9% negligible I'd vote to keep the argument from its historic perspective.

By the way, removing the table does not make the comparison very readable and I would rather like to revert it to the old style possibly keeping it in sync with the mentioned comparison table in the German wikipedia. Guidod (talk) 07:05, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

I agree about reverting to the old style. This page was offered to me as a new user to practice editing, and I did not realize what I was doing in that section. However, I also do not know how to get it back, and please do so yourself if you wish.

Thank you for checking on the other issue. However, what caught my attention was, the Bioland people were claiming that EU standard did not forbid GE seed. The EU website said that the standards had evolved some. They did not mention a change in attitude towards GE foods, but they did say that currently GE is not allowed. Going back to the Bioland statement, I thought perhaps it might mean either, that the GE forbidding was new to the EU standard, or that the seed from which the new seed was grown could be GE modified (which I doubt). Given what a hot topic all of this is, I just wanted some clarification--is Bioland really saying that EU standard allows GE seed, and if so, is there more to the story? Your clarification does make sense, but I think it should be shared with the reader. Catrinka Trabont (talk) 21:34, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

That "GE seed" may be bad wording here - the EU eco regulation refers to the ingredients of food products on the market, I had shortened the sentence above which starts with "Products containing GMOs ... ingredient is less than 0.9%." The Bioland rules (and other traditional labels) do prohibit that their label is used on a product whenever it does contain anything from a GMO (plant or animal). The same is true for GMO fodder which is excluded explicitly in the Bioland rules while the EU eco regulations seem to be silent about it. Since the GMO will not be present in the meat it is not uncommon to see GMO fodder being used and the farmer will still get the EU eco label. So for a Bioland farmer there is no use of any GE seed whatsever while other farmers can sow them, use the crop as fodder and to sell it all as organic food (where traces of GMO are acceptable in the products as they might be transferred during production on the farm which can happen when so many GE seeds are around).

As for editing - you can go back to an old version using "history" then copy & past the section that you want in the newest version. Guidod (talk) 23:37, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

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