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Shutting out Parliament from trade deals "terrifying" for food standards, climate, and NHS
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"Public outrage will grow rapidly" – Global Justice Now
GM maize cultivation threatens Europe's butterflies and moths – study
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"Large consequences on ecosystem services such as pollination" could result
Conflicts of interest plague GM mosquito experiments
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Journal refuses to publish scientist’s defence of his paper warning of unexpected outcomes from GM mosquitoes release. Report: Claire Robinson
Journals censor lab origin theory for SARS-CoV-2
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A growing number of scientists think that the virus causing COVID-19 may have been genetically engineered and/or a lab escape – but they can't get their evidence published in journals. Report: Claire Robinson
Will Bayer settlement clean up Monsanto's PCB contamination in Wales?
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Rev Paul Cawthorne says some of Bayer's USD650 million given to polluted sites in the US should be used to remediate Monsanto's toxic legacy in the UK
Gene editing in food and farming: Risks and unexpected consequences
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Rigorous regulation and labelling needed
US Transhumanist Party rocked by furore over “lab-grown human meat” project
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Party’s now disowned 2020 Presidential candidate ate “human meat” burger. Jonathan Matthews reports
CRISPR gene editing in human embryos "wreaks chromosomal mayhem" – Nature journal
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Lessons must be learned for plant gene editing. Report: Claire Robinson
Organic farming more profitable than conventional – study
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Net return for organic corn/soybean/wheat rotation significantly higher than conventional
GM groups call on the public: Ask Ministers to reject plans to de-regulate gene editing
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UK: PLEASE TAKE ACTION
Scientifically indefensible, anti-democratic, and harmful to trade
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The amendment to the Agriculture Bill seeking to de-regulate gene-edited foods and crops should be discarded
Phony experts with veiled conflicts of interest polluting debates on endocrine disruptors, glyphosate, GMOs
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Noisy onslaughts tip the scales towards industry. Report: Jonathan Matthews
De-regulation of gene editing "out of the question" – Greens
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After dissident group of German Greens lobbied for gene editing to be de-regulated, spokesmen re-affirm Party's commitment to strong regulation under the EU's GMO laws
Scientists edited human embryos in the lab, and it was a disaster
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“This is a restraining order for all genome editors to stay the living daylights away from embryo editing” – gene editing expert
German Green faction pushes for de-regulation of gene editing
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Statements reveal scientific ignorance
Why are the lab escape denialists telling such brazen lies?
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Or how Peter Daszak is SARS-CoV-2's “Patient Zero for misinformation” but a media darling. Report: Jonathan Matthews
Push for GM cotton in Africa is "cause for alarm", says nonprofit
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As pests and high input costs plague GM Bt cotton, organic and sustainable cotton production should be favoured, a new report says. Report: Claire Robinson
CRISPR-edited rice shows wide range of unintended mutations
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Gene-editing tool "not as precise as expected", say researchers in new study. Report: Claire Robinson
Don't de-regulate risky gene editing, scientists tell Eustice
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Amendment to the Agriculture Bill without full Commons debate is "violation of the political process that is not acceptable in a parliamentary democracy"
Court shoots down US EPA approval of dicamba pesticide
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EPA "substantially understated the risks", says judge
Regulatory chicanery – Biotech lobby quietly hijacks the UK’s Agriculture Bill to change the definition of "GMOs"
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by Pat Thomas and Lawrence Woodward of Beyond GM
Lab escape theory of SARS-CoV-2 origin gaining scientific support
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“We can’t exclude the possibility that this came from a laboratory experiment rather than from an animal” – Prof Nikolai Petrovsky
Chinese and US scientists genetically engineered bat coronaviruses in dangerous gain-of-function research stretching back years
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Research was omitted from landmark paper claiming natural origin of SARS-CoV-2. Report: Claire Robinson