Bundesrat rejects GMO law - the Union wants us to eat GenFood and what the consequences are and whether, for example, organic farming near Gen-fields is no longer possible (because farmers cannot meet the strict requirements, since genetically modified plants do spread after all), they couldn't care less. The fact that most farmers don't value Genshit at all is also irrelevant. The fact that in the end only the big corporations win and are interested in the whole genetic technology - because they can strangle farmers and squeeze them even more - is probably not irrelevant. Because somewhere the donation millions must come from ...
Genetically modified foods serve the combination (forced combination!) of seeds and fertilizers or crop protection products and the patent protection of the use of the seeds. It directly attacks the classic traditional way of working of farmers - for example, the use of fruit for the next sowing is usually not possible (because infertile) or prohibited (by contract). There is no biological reason in Germany - neither do we have to endure extreme climatic conditions nor particularly catastrophic pest attacks. It is solely about the maximization of the companies that produce the genetically modified seeds.
If you then look at who is behind it, something else becomes apparent: another point is the elimination of the classic production sites for seeds - many of the genetic engineering companies are more associated with the pharmaceutical or chemical industry than with classical agriculture (although there are also black sheep among the seed producers - but these also belong more to the industry). Here, industry is simply moving into an area it could not serve before and wants to break into - ultimately with coercive means.
With genetically modified seeds, not only are foods produced whose consumption is rejected by the majority of consumers - an entire economic sector is also being strangled or possibly even destroyed. At least severely damaged.
Agriculture, through its structures with cooperatives, associations, interest groups and political lobbying, has a fairly large power and influence on its fate - so far. But now the bad guys want to play along, whose goal is exactly the takeover of this - previously self-managed - power.
Of course, the Union - which has repeatedly revealed itself to be industry-dependent - hitches itself to the cart. And of course, our industry chancellor performs this balancing act and Minister Künast has to present a law that is already watered down to the extreme - and even that is rejected in the council (which has a Union majority).