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GeneWatch UK has a new briefing on the implications of new #GMO (gene-edited) plants, animals and micro-organisms for biosecurity. It concludes that the deregulation of new GMOs poses a major threat. genewatch.org/uploads/f03c...
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
GeneWatch UK has a new briefing on the implications of new #GMO (gene-edited) plants, animals and micro-organisms for biosecurity. It concludes that the deregulation of new GMOs poses a major threat. genewatch.org/uploads/f03c...
“What’s happening in Belém is not a climate conference but a hostage negotiation over the future of the planet where those holding the detonators – the soy barons, the beef cartels, the pesticide peddlers – are seated at the table as honest brokers,” said @rajpatel.org #COP30
More fox-guarding-henhouse climate news: > 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“What’s happening in Belém is not a climate conference but a hostage negotiation over the future of the planet where those holding the detonators – the soy barons, the beef cartels, the pesticide peddlers – are seated at the table as honest brokers,” said @rajpatel.org #COP30
“Expulsion by suffocation”: how (mostly #GMO) soy expansion and herbicide use are displacing Amazonian communities. Study argues #glyphosate use produces a slow form of chemical violence that suffocates people, ecosystems, and ways of life. theconversation.com/expulsion-by...
“Expulsion by suffocation”: how soy expansion and herbicide use are displacing Amazonian communities
A study argues that the use of glyphosate produces a slow form of chemical violence that suffocates people, ecosystems and ways of life. This violence forces riverside communities to leave and makes w...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Expulsion by suffocation”: how (mostly #GMO) soy expansion and herbicide use are displacing Amazonian communities. Study argues #glyphosate use produces a slow form of chemical violence that suffocates people, ecosystems, and ways of life. theconversation.com/expulsion-by...
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And, for the record, Professor at Johns Hopkins in the history of science and medicine, just sayin
James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him. Former Cold Spring Harbor lab writer @nccomfort.bsky.social on how James Watson became a genetic determinist and eventually overtly racist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
And, for the record, Professor at Johns Hopkins in the history of science and medicine, just sayin
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"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him. Former Cold Spring Harbor lab writer @nccomfort.bsky.social on how James Watson became a genetic determinist and eventually overtly racist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him. Former Cold Spring Harbor lab writer @nccomfort.bsky.social on how James Watson became a genetic determinist and eventually overtly racist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
The BAYER corporation emits around three million tonnes of greenhouse gases every year. Nevertheless, it is allowed to present itself as "part of the solution" at the #COP30 together with other agro-giants. The @cbg-network.bsky.social criticised this at the climate strike on 14 November.
Der BAYER-Konzern stößt Jahr für Jahr BAYER rund drei Millionen Tonnen an Treibhausgasen aus. Trotzdem darf er sich auf der #COP30 zusammen mit anderen Agro-Riesen als „Teil der Lösung" präsentieren. Die CBG kritisierte das am 14.11. beim Klimastreik.
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November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The BAYER corporation emits around three million tonnes of greenhouse gases every year. Nevertheless, it is allowed to present itself as "part of the solution" at the #COP30 together with other agro-giants. The @cbg-network.bsky.social criticised this at the climate strike on 14 November.
Author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, @gdstone.bsky.social discusses how the Green Revolution didn’t speed up food production—but did fuel the growth of fertilizers and #pesticides. It also provided a heroic legend that is completely untrue! exchange.prx.org/pieces/595920
Glenn Davis Stone, PhD, author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, discusses the legend and unintended consequences of the Green Revolution.
Did you know that the “Green Revolution” is a cultural narrative that is rarely questioned? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Glenn Dav...
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November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, @gdstone.bsky.social discusses how the Green Revolution didn’t speed up food production—but did fuel the growth of fertilizers and #pesticides. It also provided a heroic legend that is completely untrue! exchange.prx.org/pieces/595920
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Does new #geneticengineering simply do what breeding and evolution have always done?
A new scientific publication clearly shows that it is not that simple – there are fundamental differences!
www.testbiotech.org/en/news/new-...
A new scientific publication clearly shows that it is not that simple – there are fundamental differences!
www.testbiotech.org/en/news/new-...
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Does new #geneticengineering simply do what breeding and evolution have always done?
A new scientific publication clearly shows that it is not that simple – there are fundamental differences!
www.testbiotech.org/en/news/new-...
A new scientific publication clearly shows that it is not that simple – there are fundamental differences!
www.testbiotech.org/en/news/new-...
History has shown us this pattern before. Tobacco companies once sought legal shields when the evidence turned against them. Opioid manufacturers, asbestos producers—the list goes on! They don't want their experts cross-examined or internal documents disclosed. nomoreglyphosate.nz/glyphosate-i...
Glyphosate Immunity Fails in Missouri — A Warning for NZ
Bayer’s bid for glyphosate immunity failed in Missouri. What does that mean for New Zealand’s residue limits, regulators, and public health?
nomoreglyphosate.nz
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
History has shown us this pattern before. Tobacco companies once sought legal shields when the evidence turned against them. Opioid manufacturers, asbestos producers—the list goes on! They don't want their experts cross-examined or internal documents disclosed. nomoreglyphosate.nz/glyphosate-i...
Claims about gene-edited rice varieties don’t match up, analysis of ICAR data shows. Government’s promotion of both varieties a ‘hasty’ attempt to bypass public resistance to risky gene technologies in India’s food systems, says non-profit. www.downtoearth.org.in/agriculture/...
Centre’s claims about gene-edited rice varieties don’t match up, analysis of ICAR data shows
Raising fresh questions about the performance of the two gene-edited rice varieties released by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, a new ana
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November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Claims about gene-edited rice varieties don’t match up, analysis of ICAR data shows. Government’s promotion of both varieties a ‘hasty’ attempt to bypass public resistance to risky gene technologies in India’s food systems, says non-profit. www.downtoearth.org.in/agriculture/...
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🚨 82% of Danes say NO to New GMO deregulation – but their gov is pushing for it anyway.
As EU trilogue talks heat up, new poll by @eko.org shows public wants strict rules, labels & traceability.
Via @gmwatch.bsky.social
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As EU trilogue talks heat up, new poll by @eko.org shows public wants strict rules, labels & traceability.
Via @gmwatch.bsky.social
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Poll: 82% of Danes oppose GMO deregulation, at odds with government position
Poll comes as EU institutions are in the final negotiation rounds to determine if new GMO products will be exempt from labelling and traceability requirements
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November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🚨 82% of Danes say NO to New GMO deregulation – but their gov is pushing for it anyway.
As EU trilogue talks heat up, new poll by @eko.org shows public wants strict rules, labels & traceability.
Via @gmwatch.bsky.social
gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
As EU trilogue talks heat up, new poll by @eko.org shows public wants strict rules, labels & traceability.
Via @gmwatch.bsky.social
gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
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Larry Ellison- US big tech billionaire, media mogul, top donor to Israel and member of Trump’s inner circle- is now moving into seeds, with US$60 million investment in AI plant breeding and genetic engineering globalaginvesting.com/uks-wild-bio... @usrighttoknow.bsky.social @gmwatch.bsky.social
UK’S Wild Bioscience Secures $60M in Series A Round Led by Larry Ellison’s Think Tank
Wild Bioscience, an Oxford, U.K.-based agtech pioneer in AI-powered precision crop breeding, has raised a massive $60 million in what it is describing as a Series A partnership.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Larry Ellison- US big tech billionaire, media mogul, top donor to Israel and member of Trump’s inner circle- is now moving into seeds, with US$60 million investment in AI plant breeding and genetic engineering globalaginvesting.com/uks-wild-bio... @usrighttoknow.bsky.social @gmwatch.bsky.social
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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...
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.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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...
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🇧🇷 👉 #Bayer in Brazil: how an agrochemical giant and related agribusinesses greenwash their pollution and climate change contribution at #COP30
⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender'
💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv
⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender'
💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv
Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender | Corporate Europe Observatory
For agrochemical giant Bayer the COP30 climate conference in Brazil is a golden opportunity to greenwash its image. And it is willing to spend a lot of money to capitalise on this moment. Bayer is one...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
🇧🇷 👉 #Bayer in Brazil: how an agrochemical giant and related agribusinesses greenwash their pollution and climate change contribution at #COP30
⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender'
💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv
⚡ New research article by CEO and #CBG ‘Bayer in Brazil - big polluter, big lobby spender'
💥 Read here: tinyurl.com/2h3etjfv
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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...
From Industry to E.P.A.: Lobbyist Now Oversees Pesticide Rules
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October 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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...
The guys behind the enshitification of everything are now working on the human race: Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway. www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
Silicon Valley startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics, hoping to prevent diseases as well as improve chances for a high IQ and other traits.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The guys behind the enshitification of everything are now working on the human race: Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway. www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...
Oxitec withdraws application to release its #GMO mosquitoes in Australia. Plan had attracted strong opposition from the public and scientists. “GM mosquito releases in North & South America failed and would have failed here too while causing health and environment havoc.” gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
Oxitec withdraws application to release its GM mosquitoes in Australia
GM mozzies plan had attracted strong opposition from the public and scientists
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November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Oxitec withdraws application to release its #GMO mosquitoes in Australia. Plan had attracted strong opposition from the public and scientists. “GM mosquito releases in North & South America failed and would have failed here too while causing health and environment havoc.” gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
Hope not Hate, after conducting an in-depth investigation into a company closely intertwined with Herasight, accused Anomaly and several others associated with the firm of having links to scientific racism and far-right activists. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/superbaby-fa...
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hope not Hate, after conducting an in-depth investigation into a company closely intertwined with Herasight, accused Anomaly and several others associated with the firm of having links to scientific racism and far-right activists. investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/superbaby-fa...
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Cloning Tom Brady’s dog isn’t a “marvel of science”; it is old #BioTech being used in yet another PR stunt by #ColossalBio to grab undeserved headlines… 🐶 🧪 🤷
www.cbs42.com/sports/nfl/t...
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Tom Brady’s dog is a clone of late pet, former quarterback says
The former NFL quarterback revealed his current dog is actually a marvel of science Tuesday.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Cloning Tom Brady’s dog isn’t a “marvel of science”; it is old #BioTech being used in yet another PR stunt by #ColossalBio to grab undeserved headlines… 🐶 🧪 🤷
www.cbs42.com/sports/nfl/t...
www.cbs42.com/sports/nfl/t...
Environmentally relevant doses of #glyphosate and chlorpyrifos-based pesticide mixtures disrupt innate and adaptive immune effector functions that are critical for immuno-surveillance against #cancer tumor growth. ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Combined glyphosate and chlorpyrifos-based pesticides impair innate and adaptive immune functions: an in vitro approach - Environmental Health
Background The widespread use of pesticides, including glyphosate-based herbicides (e.g., Roundup®, R) and chlorpyrifos-based insecticides (e.g., Clorpi48®, C), has raised concerns about their environ...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Environmentally relevant doses of #glyphosate and chlorpyrifos-based pesticide mixtures disrupt innate and adaptive immune effector functions that are critical for immuno-surveillance against #cancer tumor growth. ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
More good news! Oxitec withdrew their application to release millions of #GMO mosquitoes across Northern Australia!! Public protest wins consultations.health.gov.au/ogtr/dir-207... Non-GMO Wolbachia mozzies already suppress dengue transmission ~100%! www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/global-pr...
Consultation on the commercial release of a genetically modified (GM) mosquito strain (DIR 207)
- Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
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The site lists consultations that are run by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing. On this site you can find, share or take part in consultations.
consultations.health.gov.au
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
More good news! Oxitec withdrew their application to release millions of #GMO mosquitoes across Northern Australia!! Public protest wins consultations.health.gov.au/ogtr/dir-207... Non-GMO Wolbachia mozzies already suppress dengue transmission ~100%! www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/global-pr...
All over the world citizens are refusing to passively accept #GMO hype and are demanding a say in what they grow and what they eat. Our latest review reports on this global resistance, including major court victories for civil society in the US, India and South Africa gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
Review 592: Resistance to GMOs
While some of the world’s governments rush lemming-like towards the cliff of GMO deregulation, the process is going in the opposite direction in that home of GMOs, the US, driven not by the government...
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November 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
All over the world citizens are refusing to passively accept #GMO hype and are demanding a say in what they grow and what they eat. Our latest review reports on this global resistance, including major court victories for civil society in the US, India and South Africa gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
Demand for MPs to reinstate the law banning GMOs in Senegal. The biosecurity law, which prohibited the importation, storage and use of GMOs in Senegal was repealed by the country's former leaders, just before their departure without debate or consensus.
Le CICODEV demande la restauration de la loi sur la biosécurité, qui interdisait l’importation, le stockage, l’utilisation et la commercialisation des organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM) au Sénégal.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Demand for MPs to reinstate the law banning GMOs in Senegal. The biosecurity law, which prohibited the importation, storage and use of GMOs in Senegal was repealed by the country's former leaders, just before their departure without debate or consensus.
US Closes #GMO Loophole While Canada Lags On Labelling.
US Appeals Court ruling adds pressure on Canadian regulators, as poll shows 83% of Canadians want mandatory labelling of GM foods watershedsentinel.ca/article/us-c...
US Appeals Court ruling adds pressure on Canadian regulators, as poll shows 83% of Canadians want mandatory labelling of GM foods watershedsentinel.ca/article/us-c...
US Closes GMO Loophole While Canada Lags On Labelling | Watershed Sentinel
US Appeals Court ruling adds pressure on Canadian regulators, as poll shows 83% of Canadians want mandatory labelling of GM foods
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November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
US Closes #GMO Loophole While Canada Lags On Labelling.
US Appeals Court ruling adds pressure on Canadian regulators, as poll shows 83% of Canadians want mandatory labelling of GM foods watershedsentinel.ca/article/us-c...
US Appeals Court ruling adds pressure on Canadian regulators, as poll shows 83% of Canadians want mandatory labelling of GM foods watershedsentinel.ca/article/us-c...