Brazil’s #GMO Eucalyptus Boom Is a Dangerous Climate Illusion.
FuturaGene: industrial forestry with synthetic biology to market plantations as carbon assets. This land-based #geoengineering scheme reproduces colonial patterns, ecological damage, and social harm. gjep.substack.com/p/brazils-ge...
Trump’s agenda to “Make America healthy again” revolves around strengthening big ag’s already dominant position in the US food system. This includes MORE glyphosate and supporting Bayer in court cases filed by those suffering its effects.
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And check out our latest Review on New GMOs. We cover the latest SCIENCE, as well as the DEREGULATION battles in the EU and New Zealand, and the post-deregulation battles in Japan and the UK. Also news on what little is in the NEW GMOs PIPELINE, + PATENTS, & TECHNO-FOOD! gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
We also look at RESISTANCE, RESTRICTIONS AND BANS around the world, including Ukraine’s ban on #GMO crops, US pushback on GMO wheat, Kenya’s anti-GMO protests and legal battles, and the Swiss initiative—to extend their strict moratorium on GMOs—that’s heading to the ballot box.
Check out our new GMWatch Review—We look at the latest #GMO failures, including how the gene-editing revolution has ‘lost its mojo’; how Bt crops are making pests more robust, longer-lived, and able to spread more quickly; and the GMO wheat company’s insolvency. And more! gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
The new regulations also raise concerns that Scotland & Wales, which have explicitly rejected the Genetic Technology Act and oppose #GMO cultivation, could be forced to accept unlabelled new GMOs in their markets. If you can, please do support this legal action. www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
Their legal team has identified potential violations of the Human Rights Act, the Aarhus Convention and the Habitats Directive. They say the regulations also exceed Parliamentary authorisation by preventing safety testing. Polls show 80% of UK consumers want all #GMOs clearly labelled and traceable.
New legal challenge over hidden GMOs in food.
@sustainweb.org member @beyond-gm.bsky.social launches legal action against govt over new regs that remove labelling requirements, violating citizens' right to know what's in their food + risking damage to environment. www.sustainweb.org/news/jul25-h...
My newest piece examines the expanding fallout from the BillGates-JeffreyEpstein scandal. Sorry, Bill—-the attack on Iran will not save you from accountability.
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Labour! 🤦
Ready to abandon bans on foie gras and fur, which the public want, in favour of gene-edited crops, which public don't want
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30 years of growing #GMO soya—Argentina's massive open-air experiment has meant vast monocultures displacing thousands of families from their lands, millions of hectares devastated, and epidemics of disease caused by all the pesticide use—BUT $$ for agribiz and growing resistance.
71 MPs urge the French government to reject the deregulation of GMOs derived from new genomic techniques (NGTs). They call for the government to defend "a strict European framework for health, environmental and democratic protection." infogm.org/en/71-meps-u...
Quite the understatement: "As bees are one of the world's most important pollinator species, and glyphosate is one of the world's most-applied herbicides, the impact of the chemical on the bees [and the wider ecology] could be greater than previously realized" journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...
Researchers show exposure to #glyphosate reduces bees' ability to forage and risks hive stability. After just three days, researchers tracked a reduction in foraging and changes in bee brain chemistry only in the #bees exposed to glyphosate. news.vt.edu/articles/202...
CBG calls for participation in the Easter anti-war marches/
Glyphosate used as a chemical weapon. Both #glyphosate and its precursor phosphorus are currently being used (by Israel) as chemical weapons in the Middle East conflict. (And Bayer is the sole producer of the white phosphorus being used)
"The Bayer corporation is still active as a weapons supplier. This shows it's learned nothing from its disastrous history." Bayer developed one of the world's first chemical weapons, dianisidine in 1914, and other chemical warfare agents, including sarin and mustard gas.. gmwatch.org/en/articles/...
The #GMO plant looks nearly identical to a traditional mustard plant. Neighboring fields could be contaminated with seeds and pollen carried on the wind or by bees. As both types of plant—GMO and traditional—are brassica junceas, they can breed, with pollen from one type fertilizing the other.
The Canadian GMO mustard wars: Dijon vs canola. “It has the potential of wrecking a whole industry,” says farmer Norm Hall, the chair of Sask Mustard, which represents Saskatchewan’s mustard growers. The group is lobbying the government in Ottawa to keep the #GMO crop out of Canada.
Challenge over new-GMO regs heads to High Court. @beyond-gm.bsky.social brings judicial review, arguing allowing GMO plants to enter the environment and food chain—without safety testing or labelling—undermines the rights of farmers, food businesses and consumers www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/challen...
"He's a software coder from Seattle. What does he know about African agriculture? And how does he have the hubris (via his billions) to become one of the most powerful voices shaping African farming? It hasn't worked. And today farmers are calling for reparations for all the harm it's caused."
40 French major restauranteurs, leading chefs and cooks say "deregulation of new GMOs represents an unacceptable step backwards." They call on the European Parliament—ahead of its final vote this spring—to guarantee transparency in food matters. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
The Gates Foundation is not a philanthropy. It’s an unregulated political actor... He created the modern archetype for the tech bro to transform from industry scoundrel into philanthropic saint. In the process, billions in tax benefits, major reputation laundering and you get major political power."
Democratic and Republican attorneys general are at odds with the Trump administration, which is siding with #Monsanto / #Bayer in a Supreme Court showdown worth billions in damages. In separate briefs the Dem & GOP states oppose the pesticide giant's case. #glyphosate www.eenews.net/articles/dem...
"The Bayer corporation is still active as a weapons supplier. This shows it's learned nothing from its disastrous history." Bayer developed one of the world's first chemical weapons, dianisidine in 1914, and other chemical warfare agents, including sarin and mustard gas.. gmwatch.org/en/articles/...
That's why Trump placed Bayer's #glyphosate production in Soda Springs and nearby phosphorus ore mine under special protection in his Executive Order: "A future reduction.. of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides would seriously endanger the national security of the United States."
CBG calls for participation in the Easter anti-war marches/
Glyphosate used as a chemical weapon. Both #glyphosate and its precursor phosphorus are currently being used (by Israel) as chemical weapons in the Middle East conflict. (And Bayer is the sole producer of the white phosphorus being used)
Cathy Tie's biotech business ventures all serve to normalize the technologies they embrace — specifically including heritable human genome editing. So far, fortunately, they seem to fizzle before they even fail to deliver on their alarming claims.
#GMO Bt cotton is supposed to kill pink bollworms when they feed on it but this new study shows pink bollworm larvae feeding on Bt cotton can turn into more robust longer-lived pests! No wonder Bt cotton has suffered such devastation in India. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Why does Bayer want EPA-approved labels on pesticides to be the benchmark for liability? “Because it’s much easier for industry to capture a single federal agency than to capture 50 statehouses” — Claudia Polsky, Director of the Environmental Law Clinic at UC Berkeley foodtank.com/news/2026/04...