Agriculture
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GM Watch Daily Digest, 22 October 2024
Tuesday, 22 October 2024 — GMWatch AI + synthetic biology: What could possibly go wrong? GMO soybeans and corn were a pale forerunner of what is about to happen: the marriage of artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology. For many years already scientists have been able to create novel sequences of DNA, and they’ve already… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 September 2024
Friday, 20 September 2024 — GMWatch The appearance in the EU of illegal GM-contaminated organic basmati rice reminds us that GMOs, once released, cannot be contained (GMO CONTAMINATION). Also in the EU, GMO advisory body EFSA continues to appoint industry-linked experts to its GMO Panel (LOBBYWATCH). Continue reading
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GMWatch Daily Digest – 18 September 2024
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 — GMWatch Cutting the crap on gene technology Three articles published over recent weeks and months demolish the EU Commission’s and New Zealand government’s proposals for deregulating new GMOs made with techniques such as gene editing. They show why the proposals, which would remove safety checks and labelling from a new… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest – 17 September 2024
Tuesday, 17 September 2024 — GM Watch Successful detection methods for new genomic techniques It’s becoming increasingly clear that detection and identification of new GMO (new genomic techniques, NGT) plants will be possible, as long as such research continues to be supported. In a study commissioned by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food,… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest, Monday, 16 September 2024
Monday, 16 September 2024 — GM Watch Impossible Burger maker drives rival out of business with “incredibly bitter” lawsuit In his 2022 book Regenesis and his subsequent campaigning with WePlanet, Guardian-columnist George Monbiot has championed “precision fermentation” (the PR term for synthetic biology – synbio – or extreme genetic engineering) as the main future generator… Continue reading
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The Animal Feed Industry’s Impact on the Planet
In some parts of the continental United States, you might drive through a nearly unchanging landscape for hours. Stretching for miles and miles, vast swaths of soil are dedicated to growing crops—corn, grains, fruits, and vegetables that make up the foundation of our food system. Continue reading
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Dutch farmers battle technocratic forces driving them into oblivion
Dutch farmers are in open struggle against a cartel of multinational corporations, Davos-aligned parties and NGO’s seeking control over the global food supply. “They are sweeping the culture from the land,” a farmer laments. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 2 December 2022
Friday, 2 December 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks New Figures Show Massive Decrease in Planting of GM Crops in European Union Figures for the area under MON810, the only transgenic GMO crop authorized for cultivation in the European Union, have just been published. And it’s a downward spiral: a third less than last year.… Continue reading
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Pesticide Action Network News – November 2022
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Silent Spring, one of the most important environmental books of the 20th century. We dedicate this November issue of Pesticide News to the book’s author, Rachel Carson, who wrote a ground-breaking, ecological alarm call that we are still rallying behind today. Continue reading
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Food, Farming, and Africa: An Open Letter to Bill Gates
We, 50 organizations focused on food sovereignty and justice worldwide, want you to know there is no shortage of practical solutions and innovations by African farmers and organizations. We invite you to step back and learn from those on the ground. —Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 28 October 2022
Friday, 28 October 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Indian Government Restricts Use of Glyphosate in Massive Blow to Agrichemical Lobby The Indian government has restricted the use of glyphosate-based herbicides due to the risks to human and animal health. On Tuesday the Agricultural Ministry stated in a notification that “the use of glyphosate is prohibited and… Continue reading
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Engineered Food Crisis: Agri Biotech Motivated by Monopoly Control and “Sacred GMO Cash Cow”
We are currently seeing rising food prices due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks and profiteering by global grain trade conglomerates like Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, ADM and Bunge. Continue reading
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Whose Grain Is Being Shipped From Ukraine?
A great humanitarian uproar in recent weeks demanding the safe shipping of Ukrainian grain to ease a hunger crisis in Africa and elsewhere is deceptive on many levels. Not the least is who owns the land on which the grain is grown and whether that grain is actually illegal GMO patented corn and other grains.… Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 26 August 2022
Friday, 26 August 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Florida University Study Shows Glyphosate Causes Convulsions in Animals A recent report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found more than 80 percent of urine samples from children and adults in the U.S. contained the herbicide glyphosate. A study by Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern… Continue reading
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‘No Farms, No Food:’ Dutch farmers confront billionaire ‘green’ elite’s food system reset plan
Dutch farmers’ protests offer a preview of the resistance to come as transnational “green” billionaires advance a “reset” of the global food system. The elite agenda threatens to deepen an international cost of living crisis and spark unrest well beyond The Netherlands. Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 19 August 2022
Friday, 19 August 2022 — Sustainable Pulse FDA Finds Majority of Foods in America Contain Pesticide Residues Over half of all food samples tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contain the residues of at least one pesticide, and one in ten samples have levels that violate legal limits established by the U.S.… Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 28 July 2022
Thursday, 28 July 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Glyphosate & Roundup: Poison In Our Daily Bread – Fork the System Podcast It’s not surprising that glyphosate, the so-called active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, is found in foods made with glyphosate-tolerant GMO crops like corn, soy and canola. But why is glyphosate herbicide showing up in… Continue reading
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The Future of Food? Genetic Engineering, Value Capture and Dependency
GM crops are required to feed the world is a well-worn industry slogan trotted out at every available opportunity. Just like the claim of GM crops being a tremendous success, this too is based on a myth. Continue reading
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Dystopian Farm: the UK dairy industry & its technofixes
As the bill on gene-edited food goes through parliament, Corporate Watch takes a look at the dystopian technologies in the UK dairy industry and on the horizon. Continue reading
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Ukraine: War Within the War: The Fight Over Land and Genetically Engineered Agriculture
Ten months before Russian troops poured into Ukraine, that country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill into law authorizing the private sale of farmland, reversing a moratorium that had been in place since 2001. Continue reading
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