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Thanksgiving: Farmers' seeds in danger - worldwide! Alliance demands: Protection of GMO-free conventional and organic agriculture and farmers' rights.

Farmers' seeds in danger — worldwide! Alliance of German 🧑‍🌾 farmers' groups and ✝️ development organisations demands protection of farmers' rights and of #GMO FREE conventional and organic agriculture—from the threat of untested, unlabelled and patented new #GMOs ☣️ www.misereor.de/en/presse/pr...

Just a reminder that Elizabeth Holmes once featured on TIME's 100 Most Influential People list. Incidentally, TIME's unbridled hymn of praise for Lamm comes courtesy of George Church who is, of course, the co-founder with Lamm of #ColossalBio.

Dark PR attacks on critics of 10-billion-dollar biotech Goliath Debunkers of de-extinction disinformation hit by vicious campaign of intimidation. Report: Jonathan Matthews

You have to laugh at some of the quotes in this piece about the smear campaign against critics of @itiscolossal.bsky.social. George Church says Ben Lamm "has faced technical hurdles and skeptics with respect & humor" www.gmwatch.org/en/106-news/... 1/2

The mysterious rise of cancer among young adults in the Corn Belt Communities across the Corn Belt are confronting a rise in cancers among young adults — and few clear explanations.

Cancer Rates Climb Among Young Adults in the Corn Belt. At the center of the controversy is #glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and the most widely used herbicide on the planet. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Business.Scoop » Victory For Food Safety: Government Rejects 100-Fold Glyphosate Increase After Public Outcry

Victory For Food Safety in New Zealand: Government Rejects 100-Fold #Glyphosate Increase in Residues in Food After Public Outcry. And glyphosate will no longer be allowed to be applied directly onto cereal crops grown for human consumption. business.scoop.co.nz/2025/10/30/v...

From Industry to E.P.A.: Lobbyist Now Oversees Pesticide Rules

From Industry to EPA: Lobbyist Now Oversees Pesticide Rules! Kyle Kunkler was the top lobbyist for the US soybean industry, boasting of helping to keep the controversial herbicide #dicamba in use on #GMO crops. Now he's helping keep it in use at the EPA! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/c...

For the proposed law, no one consulted communities harmed by pesticide spraying, teachers' organisations in schools hit by spraying, those sprayed in their own homes dying of cancer, or scientists who've shown the dramatic impact of the 600 million litres of pesticides applied annually in Argentina.

Argentina. El veneno como estrategia de poder Con la excusa de las buenas prácticas, Diputados y el agronegocio están elaborando una ley que prevé una distancia de 10 metros para fumigaciones terrestres y 45 para aéreas. Los mismos que obtienen l...

Argentina: Poison as a strategy for power. Members of parliament and agribusiness are drafting a law mandating just 10m buffer zones from schools, homes and waterways for pesticide spraying—overriding the 1000m ones won in the courts by poisoned rural communities. kaosenlared.net/argentina-el...

Welcome to our latest Review, which covers illusory #GMO promises, GMO risks & harms, patents, regulatory capture, the latest on GMO contamination, corporate myths, fake meat, and more! gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...

Dr Debal Deb and the last harvest This is "Dr Debal Deb and the last harvest" by the source project on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

If you've not come across Debal Deb's work to save traditional rice varieties, this 20 min doc, beautifully shot by Jason Taylor, is a fine intro vimeo.com/1078366025/a...

The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess A new field of science claims to be able to predict aesthetic traits, intelligence, and even moral character in embryos. Is this the next step in human evolution or something more dangerous?

The tests’ growing popularity shows the continuing influence of genetic determinism, a specious theory that took root in the early 20th century eugenics movement.

I don’t have a problem with GMOs, I have a problem with #ColossalBio misrepresenting GMO grey wolves as Dire wolves™️ 🐺 🧪 #ExtinctionIsForever

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🦖 Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park (1990) turns 35 in November. In a new preprint, I argue that it was a prescient meditation on evolutionary genetics, complexity, & control. I also examine analogous efforts of today (e.g. “de-extinction.")

Select points below:
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Cloned Meat Is Coming Soon. Health Canada Just Doesn’t Want You to Know When regulators hide technologies from consumers, they don’t protect science — they poison trust.

Cloned meat without labels coming soon to Canada. The rationale is that cloned animals and their offspring are indistinguishable. But clones are far from perfect copies, which is why there are higher rates of illness, death and deformities in clones. agrifoodanalyticslab.substack.com/p/cloned-mea...

Dark PR attacks on critics of 10-billion-dollar biotech Goliath Debunkers of de-extinction disinformation hit by vicious campaign of intimidation. Report: Jonathan Matthews

Dark PR attacks on critics of 10-billion-dollar biotech Goliath. Debunkers of de-extinction disinformation hit by vicious campaign of intimidation. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

Long-read whole genome sequencing the only way to confirm absence of foreign DNA in gene-edited products New scientific article warns of loss of consumer trust unless proper analysis is done. Report: Claire Robinson

Long-read whole genome sequencing the only way to confirm absence of foreign DNA in (new #GMO) gene-edited products. New scientific article warns of loss of consumer trust unless proper analysis is done. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

A new film from Denmark asks: Why does the debate on new types of GMOs matter? This short film, which talks to different experts, hopes to inform the debate on new GMOs in Europe www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrzK... (9:55)

The Soy Mirage: When “Strategic Alliances” Pose a Threat to Indian Farmers A “strategic” soybean deal with the U.S. risks trapping India in GM seed dependence and crushing its farmers — a win-win only for Trump, US Soy farmers and corporations.

Threat to Indian Farmers: A “strategic” soybean deal with the U.S. risks trapping India in #GMO seed dependence and crushing its farmers — a win-win only for Trump, US soy farmers, and US corporations.
sridharradhakrishnan67.substack.com/p/the-soy-mi...

Deep in the reeds: Australian scientists put dollar figure on floating wetlands’ global water quality savings ‘We’ve worked out that no matter how hard you engineer something, nature filters everything much better than anything else’, says academic

"No matter how hard you engineer something, nature filters everything much better than anything else."

Nature-based solutions - a lot more #biodiversity - are vital on this #PoisonedPlanet

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Review 590: New GMOs Welcome to our latest Review, which focuses on new GMOs, mostly developed using gene editing. Our main focus is on the battles over the deregulation of new GMOs that are rumbling on in the EU and New ...

Check out our new Review for all the latest on the deregulation battles over new #GMOs, and the patenting, safety, labelling and detection issues that go with them. Also, a major new GMO failure, plus who's aboard the new #GMO gravy train 🚂🤑🤑🤑 gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...

IUCN backs risky genetic engineering in nature, rejects call for precaution Abu Dhabi, 15 October 2025 — In a widely anticipated but deeply concerning decision, IUCN members have implicitly endorsed the use of genetic engineering in nature conservation — despite insufficient ...

🚨 IUCN just rejected a moratorium on genetically engineered species — by one government vote.

Governments: 49.71% yes / 50.29% no
NGOs and IPLCs: 55.75% yes / 44.25% no

Over 100 scientists warned of irreversible ecological risks, but precaution lost to belief in risky technologies.
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Allowing GM Foods Into India’s Food Chain Without Strict Standards Undermine Right To Life: Rajasthan High Court Issues Directions To FSSAI, Centre The Rajasthan High Court referred to verse 6.5.4 of Chandogya Upanishad which reads, "O Somya, the mind is nourished by food, prāṇa by water, and speech by fire."

Allowing #GMO Foods Into India’s Food Chain Without Strict Standards Undermines Right To Life—Rajasthan High Court Issues Directions To India’s Regulators & Govt. No permission for sale, manufacture, distribution or import of GMOs until there are adequate regulations www.verdictum.in/court-update...

Opinion | Debating the Dangers of a Pesticide

If you saw the recent piece in @nytimes.com claiming that "Spraying round-up on crops is fine. Really." Please read our reply.
@davechapman.bsky.social @ninaelkadi.com @michaelpollan.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Nature is not a laboratory Sign the petition! A moratorium on genetically engineered wild species is crucial to prevent unintended ecological consequences in conservation efforts.

Nature is not a lab! #IUCN2025 9–15 Oct is debating genetic engineering as a “conservation tool.”
But release of GMOs has major risks!
⚠️ They cannot be recalled
⚠️ Potential harm unpredictable & irreversible.

📣 Sign this petition for a global moratorium: www.saveourseeds.org/nature-is-no...

Modified food, modified rights? Why GMO labelling must stay

Modified food, modified rights? Why #GMO labelling must stay. Great piece signed by multiple European consumer organisations, who are asking for traceability and labelling to be maintained for all GMOs, including new GMOs. www.brusselstimes.com/1793393/modi...

🚨Last day today!!

Help us send a quick and clear message to the European Commission: #ProtectMyPlate 🍽️ 👇

I've not come across The Elephant before, but there are stories here I've seen nowhere else, e.g. Seeds of Discontent: Kenya’s Seed Law Undermines Farmers’ Resilience www.theelephant.info/analysis/202...

YouTube video by Prime News TV Monde Foire agroécologie : le réseau JINUKUN et la FAEB mènent une marche pacifique dans le Couffo

This weekend, youth, local officials and rural communities in Benin, led by Jinukun and FAEB, held a peaceful march against UPOV and GMOs, and for agroecology. #StopUPOV @gmwatch.bsky.social @wominafrica.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ZG...

Opinion | Debating the Dangers of a Pesticide

This NYT letters’ page is full of letters from a range of experts, including @naomioreskes.bsky.social, excoriating Michael Grunwald’s recent piece defending the safety of #glyphosate. Grunwald is criticised, among other things, for falling for corporate propaganda. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Review 590: New GMOs Welcome to our latest Review, which focuses on new GMOs, mostly developed using gene editing. Our main focus is on the battles over the deregulation of new GMOs that are rumbling on in the EU and New ...

Check out our new Review for all the latest on the deregulation battles over new #GMOs, and the patenting, safety, labelling and detection issues that go with them. Also, a major new GMO failure, plus who's aboard the new #GMO gravy train 🚂🤑🤑🤑 gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...