Health
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GM Watch Daily Digest 5 August 2025
Tuesday, 5 August 2025 — GM Watch France’s national medical association takes stand against pesticides amidst outcry over new law A petition signed by over two million people has reignited the debate in France over the so-called “Duplomb law”, which was passed by the lower house of the French parliament on 8 July. The record-breaking… Continue reading
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Palantir in the NHS: tell Streeting it’s time for a rethink
It’s approaching 2 years now since US spy tech corporation Palantir signed a contract with the UK’s previous Conservative government, to run the NHS Federated Data Platform. In that time, the evidence of Palantir’s unsuitability has only increased. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 28 July 2025
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
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GM Watch Daily Digest for 26 July 2025
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
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HART’s Pick of the Week 20th July
Monday, 21 July 2025 — HART SSRIs; WHO; Pushback on Assisted dying and late-stage abortion; No2digitalID Antidepressant withdrawal – why do researchers keep downplaying it? Maryanne Demasi, 10th July 2025 Another insightful analysis of a JAMA systematic review, in which Maryanne picks numerous holes in their methodology, undermining their conclusion that withdrawal symptoms are ‘mild’… Continue reading
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10 Year Plan for England’s NHS – Week One
The new “Ten Year Plan” shifts decision-making power from you and your family doctor to hospitals and technology companies. There are wordings from the political leadership about patients owning data, but the depths of the policy machine seems to suggest there be a day soon when you ask the NHS to opt your data out… Continue reading
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Update on Stop misleading patients – Physician Associates cannot replace doctors
The third and final day in court is on Monday 9th. The first two days went well for us. It was very clear early in the case that there was a clear safety issue that needed to be addressed. Continue reading
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Pesticides in period products
Period products can contain pesticides and other harmful substances, such as heavy metals and PFAS ‘forever chemicals’. Half of the world’s population have periods, with women, girls and people who menstruate each using an average of 11,000 disposable menstrual products during their lifetime. Despite the prolific use of these products, the potential health impacts of… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 22 May 2025
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
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GM Watch Daily Digest 21 May 2025
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
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NHS: Ahead of the 10 year plan
The NHS 10 year plan will be dragged by political priorities to focus on the first five years – what is easiest to be done in this Parliament for headlines. Even assuming the best of intentions, the imposition of Palantir, the abolition of NHS England, the single patient record, and the transformation to digital solely… Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 