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GMO deregulation won’t fix potato blight
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Ag and food writer says GMO deregulation lobby live “in a fantasy land of precision, predictability and imagined safety”; points instead to agroecological controls. Report: Claire Robinson
The tech billionaires and rogue scientists moving to commercialise CRISPR babies
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It’s time to step up the opposition to designer babies, says Marcy Darnovsky of the Center for Genetics and Society
TAKE ACTION! Help stop first mass release of fertile GMO plant into the wild
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USDA poised to approve release of GM American chestnut trees based on botched research
European laboratories join forces to call for detection methods for all new GMOs
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GMO developers must supply detection methods, reference material and details of the genetic modification as part of authorisation procedure, say detection labs
Glyphosate and cancer: A textbook case of “manufacturing doubt”
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by Sustainable Pulse. Source: Le Monde, by Stéphane Foucart (article translated from French to English by Sustainable Pulse)
England and UK: Beyond GM legal action says "no" to hidden GMOs
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Please donate to the legal action "fighting fund"
Negotiations stall on EU GMO deregulation proposal
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Commission and Council won't compromise on key issues, including traceability and labelling
New GMO alert: GMO rice isn't on the market, but it's still showing up
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By Non-GMO Project staff
INVITATION: AI and genetically engineered organisms: a biosafety issue
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Wednesday 2 July | 15:00–17:00 CEST | Online workshop from Testbiotech
Bitter harvest — 30 years of broken GMO promises
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Save Our Seeds and GMWatch explore the fate of the bold claims made for agricultural GMOs
New film showcases what’s wrong with food and farming – and how to put it right
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“In Symbiosis” unveils the driving forces behind a broken food system and puts forward a path to building true resilience
International study reveals glyphosate weedkillers cause multiple types of cancer
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Leukemia findings are especially striking – potentially lending support to plaintiffs in court cases who allege that Roundup exposure caused their blood cancer
New report shows dismal market reality of New GMOs
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Currently only three New GMOs are being cultivated and not a single crop has contributed to sustainability goals
US farmers are planting too much GM Bt maize, leading to galloping pest resistance
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A recent study reaches damning conclusions about the failure of the technology – but an agricultural expert says the reality is far worse. Report: Claire Robinson
Norway's Parliament revises GMO law, retains precautionary stance
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Risk assessment, traceability and labelling are still mandatory for all GMOs, including gene-edited ones
GM crops fuel rise in pesticide use despite early promises, study shows
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Spread of GM crops has not contributed to chemical reductions or land reclamations, but to increased use of the pesticides they were claimed to curtail. Report: Claire Robinson
EFSA is hiding data on genetically engineered burgers
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Public transparency is threatened also for new GMOs. Report by Testbiotech
New GMOs: Freedom of choice only possible through mandatory labelling, warn 44 civil society organisations
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European Parliament must maintain its demand for on-package labelling of all products containing new GMOs
UK government promises industry it will never find out if a “new GMO” harms health or environment
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New legislation bans government from requiring any safety tests on a “precision bred” GMO that wouldn’t be done on a conventional plant or animal. By Claire Robinson
Gene drive: Communication, hype, and the publics
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Commentary by Third World Network on new scientific article
The new “Spirit of Asilomar”: Move fast, don’t ask questions
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By Naomi Kosmehl, Save Our Seeds
Mutant rice and Bill Gates’s lab rats: Grand experiments in India’s fields
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By Colin Todhunter
Non-GM bean breeding success claimed as GM breakthrough
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Guardian article mangles language and facts, pulling the wool over the public’s eyes about the real capabilities of GM. By Claire Robinson
GM no-till agriculture is not “regenerative” or climate-friendly – new report
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One-third of the US’s total annual pesticide use attributed to no- and minimum-till GM corn and soy. Report: Claire Robinson
Gene-edited low acrylamide wheat hits roadblock
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Researchers can’t remove foreign DNA – so it's back to the drawing board