Environment
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A year in resistance to genetic engineering
As 2024 was drawing to a close, here at GM Freeze we pulled together some of the year’s big stories on grassroots resistance to genetic engineering from around the world. The latest issue of our newsletter, Thin Ice, features news from Argentina to Mars, as well as the looming question of whether the Labour government in the… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 12 December 2024
Thursday, 12 December 2024 — GM Watch GM salmon company AquaBounty shuts down operations The troubled biotechnology company AquaBounty has announced it will stop production of all genetically modified salmon and is closing its last working facility, at Bay Fortune in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, reports Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). AquaBounty released the… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 6 December 2024
Friday, 6 December 2024 — GM Watch Study reveals lasting effects of glyphosate on brain health New research has shown even brief exposure to the weedkiller chemical glyphosate can cause lasting damage to the brain, which may persist long after any direct exposure ends. In the new study, Arizona State University researcher Ramon Velazquez and… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 3 December 2024
Tuesday, 3 December 2024 — GM Watch Victory! US federal court strikes down lax GMO rules, halts GE crop introductions without USDA oversight In a precedent-setting victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court in the US has ruled that genetically engineered (GE) organisms must be regulated. The Court’s ruling overturns the 2020… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 28 November 2024
Thursday, 28 November 2024 — GM Watch New Zealand: Farmers want consultation on gene editing changes The vast majority – 93% – of farmers surveyed think it is important that there is widespread consultation with farmers and growers on changes to New Zealand’s gene editing regulations. Account director at research company Truwind (formerly Research First)… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 November 2024
Wednesday, 20 November 2024 — GM Watch New Zealand: Market, not scientists, must drive GM stance Concerned dairy farmers are asking the New Zealand government to slow the process of weakening the GMO laws. They say New Zealand dairy is the gold standard for non-GMO supply, but the government seems determined to wreck that. They… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 4 November 2024
Monday, 4 November 2024 — GM Watch US government paid PR firm to track and vilify critics of GMOs and pesticides Covert PR operations involving the secret profiling of over 3,000 people and organisations considered “critics” of the pesticide industry recently made headlines around the world. The secret profiles, including ones on GMWatch and its… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 25 October 2025
Friday, 25 October 2025 — GM Watch Landmark Supreme Court of Appeal judgment on the precautionary principle in GMO decision making The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) on 22 October reported on a groundbreaking ruling against Bayer-Monsanto and five state respondents in South Africa, which set aside several layers of decision-making regarding the approval of… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 23 October 2024
Wednesday, 23 October 2024 — GM Watch South Africa: Court ruling sets aside commercial approval of GM drought-tolerant maize A precedent-setting ruling by the South African Supreme Court of Appeal in favour of African Center for Biosafety (ACB) vs Monsanto/Bayer has set aside the commercial approval of GM drought-tolerant maize. ACB said: “South Africa’s Supreme… Continue reading
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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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Ubiquitous plastic: A deadly threat to human health
The image of smoldering plastic in a little pit on the side of the street, white wisps of smoke dancing up, burned forever in my brain. I saw it, and many other pits like it, when doing moral educational research in Bangalore, India back in 1998. So the recent Nature study on how much plastic is open… 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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We refuse to give up…
Thousands of emails have been sent and both the Co-op and Waitrose have now removed these products from their shelves. We know that a few of the other supermarkets are on the verge of doing the same, but we need to push them over the finish line. Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 17 February 2023
Friday, 17 February 2023 — Sustainable Pulse GMO Salmon Production Fails as AquaBounty Turns to Non-GMO Salmon Egg Sales In a major turn-around, the US company AquaBounty says it will stop producing its controversial genetically modified Atlantic salmon in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. “This is a huge victory for everyone in PEI and across Canada who… Continue reading
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck. Continue reading
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On Cop City, Lützerath, and biodiversity & colonialist conservation
Sunday, 5 February 2023 — Uneven Earth Photo: Jesse Pratt López via Vice 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, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 27 January 2023
Friday, 27 January 2023 — Sustainable Pulse New US Research Finds “Worrying” Evidence Linking Monsanto Weedkiller to Cancer New research by top US government scientists has found that people exposed to the widely used weed killing chemical glyphosate have biomarkers in their urine linked to the development of cancer and other diseases, The New Lede… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 