Agriculture
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 14 May 2021
14 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Glyphosate Raises Malaria Risk through Damage to Insect Immune Systems – New Study The chemical compound glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, can weaken the immune systems of insects, suggests a study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Glyphosate is the… Continue reading
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Regenerative organic farming, not GM, is the solution to the climate crisis
On March 22, 2021, The Del Mar Garden Club of Southern California held an informational session called “Fighting climate change with plants”. As a person who is extremely concerned about the looming apocalyptic events due to climate chaos, but not extremely well informed about what we can do to prevent them, I signed up. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides
7 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Soil Biodiversity Under Grave Threat from Pesticides – Most Comprehensive Review Ever A new study published Tuesday by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are critical to healthy soil, biodiversity and soil carbon… Continue reading
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Proven: Glyphosate herbicides change gene function and cause DNA damage
BOMBSHELL FINDING COULD END EU AUTHORIZATION OF GLYPHOSATE. REPORT: CLAIRE ROBINSON Glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup activate mechanisms involved in cancer development, including DNA damage – and these effects occur at doses assumed by regulators to have no adverse effects, a new study shows. The DNA damage was caused by oxidative stress, a destructive imbalance… Continue reading
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Water – Free ebook download
This book discusses various aspects of the relationship of water with human society, and with all life on planet earth. Because of climate change, some regions are increasingly threatened by drought, while others experience catastrophic floods. Continue reading
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Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food
We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world. Continue reading
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The myth of a food crisis
12 April 2021 — GMWatch No matter where one looks in global agriculture, food prices are low because products are in surplus Following is an excellent article about a new peer-reviewed paper with a message that should be highlighted first and last in any discussion about the supposed need for GMOs and pesticides in order… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 9 April 2021
9 April 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Glyphosate Hacks Hormones of Baby Girls after Exposure in the Womb – New Groundbreaking Pilot Study A group of international scientists from the U.S. and EU have released a peer-reviewed pilot study that suggests the anogenital distance of baby girls is becoming more male-typical, due to their… Continue reading
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Uneven Earth – March readings
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education. Continue reading
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Glyphosate Hacks Hormones of Baby Girls after Exposure in the Womb – New Groundbreaking Pilot Study
A group of international scientists from the U.S. and EU have released a peer-reviewed pilot study that suggests the anogenital distance of baby girls is becoming more male-typical, due to their mothers being exposed to glyphosate when they are in the womb. Continue reading
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Why new genetic techniques need to be stringently regulated – study
Terms such as “like nature”, “precise”, and “no foreign genes” are being wrongly applied to new GM techniques Continue reading
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Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 3
In 1575, a moderately successful Bristol merchant named Anthony Parkhurst purchased a mid-sized ship and began organizing annual cod fishing expeditions to Newfoundland. Unlike most of his peers, he travelled with the fishworkers; while they were catching and drying cod, he explored “the harbors, creekes and havens and also the land, much more than ever… Continue reading
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The Agri-Food Model, Unregulated Gene Editing Technologies
6 April 2021 — Global Research Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy and Minimum Support Price By Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policy makers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in laboratories, the expanded use of patented… Continue reading
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Pesticide toxicity to invertebrates and pollinators increasing in GM crops
Some just published research in the journal Science completely demolishes claims that the impact of pesticides is declining and that GM crops are contributing to this positive trend. Continue reading
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EU: Vice-President Timmermans, don’t deregulate GM crops and animals
New GM techniques can cause unwanted genetic errors that can result in the production of novel toxins or allergens, warn civil society and farmer groups Continue reading
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Bill Gates finances lobby for “new GMOs” in Europe
These new revelations from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) are crucially important to read and understand if we want to preserve our democracy and food freedom. Please alert all your contacts. Continue reading
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European Group on Ethics presents biased and inaccurate report on new genetic engineering
The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), which advises the EU Commission, has published its report on New Genetic Engineering (New GE or gene editing). The report deals with New GE applications in humans, animals and plants. While the report makes thoughtful points on gene editing in humans and livestock animals,… Continue reading
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Withdraw the CAP! A disastrous deal
This week EU leaders are rushing to close an agriculture deal that is bad news for small farmers, the birds and bees, and our health. It’s called the Common Agricultural Policy. It could fund mass-scale factory farms for years to come. Continue reading
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New analytical tool reveals massive DNA damage caused by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing
New research from Chinese scientists shows that CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing causes massive damage to the genome, much of which would have been missed by the analytical tools used so far. Continue reading
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GMWatch publishes its response to UK government consultation on deregulation of gene editing
GMWatch has submitted its response to the UK government consultation on the deregulation of gene editing in food and farming. The response is co-authored by GMWatch editor Claire Robinson, acting on behalf of GMWatch, and molecular geneticist Dr Michael Antoniou, who is responding as an individual. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 