The Act only covers England, but Wales and Scotland will lose their power to refuse to sell these products under the Internal Market Act. This has created further tensions in the increasingly fraught issue of devolution since Brexit.

The legislation is not limited to agriculture, potentially paving the way for gene drives and gene editing for conservation. Not only do we have no idea of the impact of releasing this technology into the wild, but it raises ethical questions about how much we should interfere in the natural world.

The gene edited crops will be patented, further concentrating power into the hands of a small number of multinational corporations (who also produce the chemical inputs and have a strong vested interest in deepening the hold of the industrial agricultural system).

The funding going into this new technology far outweighs the funding going into understanding and developing agroecological approaches, which prioritise working with nature to create healthy ecosystems.

My main takeaways were to keep building connections and finding synergies, to embrace diversity, including difference of views, and think about language and narratives to make sure it's accessible to all.

It wasn't livestreamed, no. It was a 2-part workshop and I couldn't make the second part so I don't know whether there are any future actions, but the first part was a lot of group conversations about our respective roles in the system and who isn't well represented.

Surely!

It's excellent for a 3.5 minute film. I particularly enjoyed the industrial ag visuals throughout.