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De-extinction promises wonder, but asks us to confront harder truths. What does it mean to “love” nature in an age of extinction — and who bears the risks of resurrecting what we once destroyed? A thoughtful read: abiggerconversation.org/love-in-the-... @mickeygjerris.bsky.social
Love in the Age of De-extinction
We live in a century shaped by loss – of habitats, species and ecological certainty. The idea of reviving extinct creatures can be seductive. But resurrection isn’t just scientific: it is deeply moral...
abiggerconversation.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
De-extinction promises wonder, but asks us to confront harder truths. What does it mean to “love” nature in an age of extinction — and who bears the risks of resurrecting what we once destroyed? A thoughtful read: abiggerconversation.org/love-in-the-... @mickeygjerris.bsky.social
A pretty terrible proposal for the EU and yet "Amazingly, it still manages to be more transparent than the UK’s weird 'precision breeding' regime.." Says it all.
A sweeping deal to deregulate new GMOs has been proposed in the EU, yet civil society still secured some key concessions – seed labelling, public registers and full GMO regulation for higher-risk plants. See next steps & comparison with UK regulations: beyond-gm.org/new-eu-propo...
New EU Proposal Supports Hidden GMOs
A sweeping deal to deregulate new GMOs has been proposed in the EU, yet civil society still secured some key concessions – seed labelling, public registers and full regulation for higher-risk plants –...
beyond-gm.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A pretty terrible proposal for the EU and yet "Amazingly, it still manages to be more transparent than the UK’s weird 'precision breeding' regime.." Says it all.
To be clear, the government is implementing regulations in which it has tied its own hands to prevent any safety testing of ‘precision bred’ GMOs that wouldn’t apply to normal, non-novel foods. Makes it extremely difficult to act if independent evidence demonstrates a problem.
Here's a Monday myth breaker. No safety testing required - or legally allowed! - for new 'precision bred' GMOs from November. If it sounds like a reckless corporate loophole, that's because it is! #NotSoFunFact
October 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
To be clear, the government is implementing regulations in which it has tied its own hands to prevent any safety testing of ‘precision bred’ GMOs that wouldn’t apply to normal, non-novel foods. Makes it extremely difficult to act if independent evidence demonstrates a problem.
If we consider reimagining legal relationships with nature to create new international crimes (ecocide) or granting personhood to rivers & forests then enslavement of nature should also be part of the discussion. The domination is real, the harm measurable www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?
Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If we consider reimagining legal relationships with nature to create new international crimes (ecocide) or granting personhood to rivers & forests then enslavement of nature should also be part of the discussion. The domination is real, the harm measurable www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
This really is a defining choice for the IUCN: do we stand by the first principle of conservation - to protect nature - or quietly acquiesce to the techno-capitalist drive to redesign it?
As the IUCN World Conservation Congress opens in Abu Dhabi, members face a pivotal choice between embracing genetic engineering as a conservation tool or pausing to apply the precautionary principle to these rapidly advancing technologies. abiggerconversation.org/protecting-nat…
October 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This really is a defining choice for the IUCN: do we stand by the first principle of conservation - to protect nature - or quietly acquiesce to the techno-capitalist drive to redesign it?
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In opposition, Labour was deeply critical of the lack of transparency around #GMO precision-bred organisms. In power, they have ushered in one of the least transparent & most liberal regimes in the world. #StopHiddenGMOs. DONATE to our legal fund now crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hidden-gmos
July 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In opposition, Labour was deeply critical of the lack of transparency around #GMO precision-bred organisms. In power, they have ushered in one of the least transparent & most liberal regimes in the world. #StopHiddenGMOs. DONATE to our legal fund now crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hidden-gmos
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The UK government doesn't want you to know if you are eating or growing GMOs. But 8 in 10 in the UK think this is wrong & want to see all GMOs labelled. We're challenging the government to #StopHiddenGMOs. Support our legal action crowdfunder today crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hidden-gmos
July 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The UK government doesn't want you to know if you are eating or growing GMOs. But 8 in 10 in the UK think this is wrong & want to see all GMOs labelled. We're challenging the government to #StopHiddenGMOs. Support our legal action crowdfunder today crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hidden-gmos
So important to DONATE to support this legal action www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
What's the government trying to hide by not labelling precision bred GMOs? We've started a legal action to ensure openness & traceability when it comes to GMOs in our food & environment. If you think transparency's a good idea, join the fight. DONATE today www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
July 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
So important to DONATE to support this legal action www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
Folks, please donate today to this important cause. Help hold the UK government to account for its GMO deregulation misadventure. Thanks!
Consumers, farmers & food businesses want all GMOs to be subject to rigorous environmental & safety assessments, meaningful public consultation & full traceability ‘from field to fork'. Help us fight back. #StopHiddenGMOs DONATE to our legal fund now www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
July 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Folks, please donate today to this important cause. Help hold the UK government to account for its GMO deregulation misadventure. Thanks!
This is important folks and it is a real David and Goliath fight. Please support it by donating and helping to spread the word far and wide! www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
Beyond GM has sent a pre-action letter to Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed, putting the government on notice that we intend to pursue a judicial review of the Genetic Technology Regulations 2025. Read more and DONATE to our
@CrowdJusticeUK funder NOW. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
@CrowdJusticeUK funder NOW. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
June 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is important folks and it is a real David and Goliath fight. Please support it by donating and helping to spread the word far and wide! www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
Devolved nations have clearly rejected the deregulatory #GMO free-for-all of Westminster's Genetic Technology Act. #Scotland, #Wales & #NorthernIreland have options/opportunities to forge a more cautious & thorough regulatory path. Will they grasp these? beyond-gm.org/divided-king...
Divided Kingdom: Devolved Nations and the Genetic Technology Act
While Westminster has framed the ongoing discussion about precision bred food around what devolved nations cannot do in opposition to the Genetic Technology Act, these nations have the opportunity to ...
beyond-gm.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Devolved nations have clearly rejected the deregulatory #GMO free-for-all of Westminster's Genetic Technology Act. #Scotland, #Wales & #NorthernIreland have options/opportunities to forge a more cautious & thorough regulatory path. Will they grasp these? beyond-gm.org/divided-king...
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In my latest piece for @science.org, I ask how we should think about experiments that take place outside the lab. It begins here, in St Ives, Cornwall. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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December 20, 2024 at 8:23 AM
In my latest piece for @science.org, I ask how we should think about experiments that take place outside the lab. It begins here, in St Ives, Cornwall. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
My end-of-year reflection on why the concept of “Frankenfoods” may have been a more apt metaphor about science and responsibility than either side of the debate may have realised. abiggerconversation.org/frankenfoods...
Frankenfoods – Chewing Over a Polarised Debate
In 2024 we briefly considered – but rejected – a cheeky suggestion to bring back the provocative term ‘Frankenfoods’. The days of that kind of polemic may have passed but, as we note in our year-end r...
abiggerconversation.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:38 PM
My end-of-year reflection on why the concept of “Frankenfoods” may have been a more apt metaphor about science and responsibility than either side of the debate may have realised. abiggerconversation.org/frankenfoods...
Fab to have been awarded Slow Food Person of the year! Thank you @slowfooduk.bsky.social !
We are delighted to announce our Slow Food Award winners 2024
Slow Food UK Person of the Year Pat Thomas, Beyond GM & A Bigger Conversation
Huge congratulations to all the UK winners
To see all the national winners www.slowfood.org.uk/news
Slow Food UK Person of the Year Pat Thomas, Beyond GM & A Bigger Conversation
Huge congratulations to all the UK winners
To see all the national winners www.slowfood.org.uk/news
December 10, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Fab to have been awarded Slow Food Person of the year! Thank you @slowfooduk.bsky.social !