Monday, 28 July 2025 — GM Watch 2024, another year contaminated by illegal GMOs In 2024, the EU once again recorded alerts about GMO contamination. Of the 24 alerts, the vast majority concerned unauthorised GM rice, but also papaya, soy, flax and maize. Two cases of contamination by GM microorganisms were also reported, one of… Continue reading

Picture a world where there is plenty of food, no hunger, fields grow without chemical pesticides, children are saved from malnutrition, and people live healthily. Three decades later, the promises of GMOs lie across the fields like superweeds – costly, useless, and crowding out real alternatives. In 1995, with the approval of Bt maize and… Continue reading

GMWatch has received the good news that the environmental campaigner Aruna Rodrigues, who was forcibly evicted from her home by weapons-touting Indian army personnel just before Christmas in 2022, has won her case against the Indian government in court. The High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Indore ruled that the government’s actions in evicting Aruna… Continue reading

Wednesday, 21 May 2025 — GM Watch Just 100 corporations behind a fifth of global extractive conflicts, study reveals – and Bayer-Monsanto is one of them Just one hundred corporations are behind a fifth of the documented extractive conflicts worldwide, exposing how companies from the Global North seize resources and profits, while social and ecological… Continue reading

Tuesday, 20 May 2025 — GM Watch UK government promises industry it will never find out if a “new GMO” harms health or environment  On 13 May the Genetic Technology Act 2023 – the legislation that removes so-called “precision bred” genetically modified plants and animals from GMO regulatory safeguards in England – was signed into… Continue reading

Monday, 12 May 2025 — GM Watch Non-GM bean breeding success claimed as GM breakthrough In what has become a time-honoured tradition, yet another non-GM breeding success has been proclaimed a triumph of genetic engineering in an article written by Lucy Carter and published in The Guardian. The article says that three bean varieties have been… Continue reading

Friday, 9 May 2025 — GMWatch Big Ag pushes EU lawmakers to roll back consumer rights The industry’s cards are now fully on the table regarding the proposed deregulation of GM plants engineered with so-called “new genomic techniques” (NGTs), writes Franziska Achterberg of Save Our Seeds. Major chemical and biotech industries, commodity traders, seed breeders… Continue reading

Wednesday, 7 May 2025 — GM Watch The US greenlights CRISPR pigs for food The US Food and Drug Administration has greenlighted CRISPR gene-edited pigs, engineered to resist the respiratory virus known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, or PRRS, for consumption in the US. The virus thrives on intensive factory farms and kills piglets… Continue reading

Tuesday, 6 May 2025 — GM Watch GM no-till agriculture is not “regenerative” or climate-friendly – new report A widespread narrative holds that tillage (ploughing) can increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by disturbing the soil and releasing stored carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, as well as increasing nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. GMO proponents often… Continue reading

Thursday, 1 May 2025 — GM Watch Gene-edited low acrylamide wheat hits roadblock  Rothamsted Research’s GM gene-edited low acrylamide wheat has hit problems. An article in Euro News reports that the researchers are having trouble removing foreign DNA from the wheat – a step that they deem important to enable the wheat to evade GMO… Continue reading

Monday, 28 April 2025 — GM Watch GM crops fuel rise in pesticide use despite early promises: study In April 2025, a new study rebutted claims that GM crops cut chemical use. Published in the Journal of Agrarian Change, the research found that GM crops have deepened agriculture’s dependency on pesticides rather than reducing it.… Continue reading

Thursday, 10 April 2025 — GM Watch US: Girl Scout cookies contain heavy metals beyond safe limits as well as glyphosate, lawsuit alleges Girl Scout cookies contain lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminium and mercury at levels that often exceed regulators’ recommended limits, as well as concerning amounts of glyphosate herbicide, a new class action lawsuit alleges.… Continue reading

Monday, 31 March 2025 — GM Watch Brazil: Mega-operation to combat trade in genetically modified fish A mega-operation launched in seven states and the Federal District of Brazil to combat the illegal keeping and trade of genetically modified ornamental fish has so far resulted in 36 infraction notices, totalling R$2.38 million in fines, and the… Continue reading

Monday, 31 March 2025 — GM Watch Welcome to our latest Review, which leads with the tragic capitulation of EU member states to GMO industry interests in the rush to deregulate GMOs (EU GMO DEREGULATION PROPOSAL). It’s not over yet though, as the European Parliament and enough Member States could still stand up for consumers,… Continue reading

Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — GM Watch EFSA proposal to weaken risk assessment for “new GM” animals threatens animal welfare GeneWatch UK has submitted a response to the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) consultation on its “Draft scientific opinion on new developments in biotechnology applied to animals: an assessment of the adequacy and sufficiency of… Continue reading