Health
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 May 2025
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
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GM Watch Daily Digest 12 May 2025
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
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We brought MPs face-to-face with young PIP claimants
Last week myself and other young people living with severe mental illness took to Parliament to speak with MPs face-to-face about the dangers of the planned disability cuts. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 9 May 2025
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
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The selfish fiction of “Safe Return” is reckless and unsafe
The “five safes”* Trusted Research Environments model has been tested over decades, meaning “safe people” doing “safe projects” on “safe data” in “safe settings” to produce “safe outputs”, and while the precise meaning of the five safes evolves with the context and the datasets, half baked additions of “new safes” weaken the whole model for… Continue reading
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WHO Pandemic Agreement ⏤
On 15 April 2025, as we approached Easter, the not so joyous news broke that member states have now reached an agreement on the WHO Pandemic Agreement or Treaty, with negotiations expected to be formalized in May (17-26) when each member state can then decide whether or not to sign the agreement. Notably, this Treaty… Continue reading
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GenTech regulations pass House of Lords
Thursday, 8 May 2025 — GM Freeze To our members and supporters, This message delivers the sad news that the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Regulations were agreed by the House of Lords earlier in the week despite them being – in the words of Green Peer Natalie Bennett – “deeply flawed.” We expect the Regulations Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 7 May 2025
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
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GM Watch Daily Digest 6 May 2025
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
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Update on Stop misleading patients – Physician Associates cannot replace doctors
PAs and AAs were introduced to help doctors by taking on some clinical tasks under supervision. They have only a fraction of the training that doctors do, and their training is geared towards working in an assistant capacity. Yet increasingly they are being used to diagnose, treat, and manage patients, often without proper supervision, and… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 1 May 2025
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
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GM Watch Daily Digest 28 April 2025
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
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Who will become data controller of your medical notes in Wes’s World?
Speaking in Parliament, Wes Streeting said: “NHS England will be brought into the Department entirely”. Entirely is the key word, with consequences for decisions that have not yet been made. The abolition is a change that everyone thought beneficial but few expected before Wes Streeting first announced it two weeks ago and which surprised almost… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 10 April 2025
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
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Tell DEFRA: New GMO seeds ARE your business!
Last week we contacted our members and supporters to urge them to respond to a DEFRA consultation on whether new GM seeds (dubbed ‘precision bred’ by the Westminster government) will be labelled. We pointed out that, although the consultation questions are focussed on business impacts the outcome will affect everyone who buys seeds. It will also… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 31 March 2025
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
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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
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GM Watch Daily Digest 19 March 2025
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
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‘This should send shockwaves through the NHS, government, and society’
RCN warns nurses are leaving the NHS due to shocking levels of racist abuse and understaffing Continue reading
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“Shocking abandonment of consumers’ right to information” – association of non-GMO food/feed sector
Commenting on the EU vote to deregulate new GMOs, ENGA, the association of the European non-GMO food and feed sector, said, “The result of today’s vote at the COREPER meeting on New Genomic Techniques is highly disappointing: Without traceability and labelling for the majority of New GMOs, the food sector and consumers will not know… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 