Thursday, 13 March 2025 — GM Watch Unpacking EU’s food fight over new GMOs At a standstill for months, the EU’s plan to free so-called new genomic techniques (NGTs) from GMO rules could move forward on Friday 14 March — delivering on efforts from Europe’s factory farm capitals to override opposition from countries concerned about Continue reading

Monday, 10 March 2025 — GM Watch Kenya – court orders government to cease permitting GMO imports (video) In Kenya the Court of Appeal has issued orders stopping the government from permitting GMO imports or doing anything to implement its lifting of Kenya’s GMO ban. The Kenyan Peasants League had appealed the decision to lift Continue reading

Thursday, 27 February 2025 — GM Watch Company uses gene editing to create glow-in-the-dark rabbits A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic engineering to make glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats and dogs, and possibly, one day, actual unicorns. The Los Angeles Project is the brainchild of biohacker Continue reading

Weddnesday, 26 February 2025 — GM Watch After trade dispute, Mexico officially bans the planting of GM corn Mexico’s lower house of Congress has approved a constitutional reform to ban the planting of GM corn, a move that could lead to more tension with the US after the resolution of a trade dispute. The initiative Continue reading

In an open statement, civil society groups, scientists, and academics are challenging the democratic legitimacy of any conclusions or policy proposals that may arise from the 2025 Spirit of Asilomar and the Future of Biotechnology conference currently running from 23-26 February at Asilomar, California. Continue reading

Monday, 24 February 2025 — GM Watch Civil society groups warn new Asilomar conference: Scientists must not be allowed to self-regulate In an open statement, civil society groups, scientists, and academics are challenging the democratic legitimacy of any conclusions or policy proposals that may arise from the 2025 Spirit of Asilomar and the Future of Continue reading

Thursday, 20 February 2025 — GM Watch Joint letter to the EU Commission: Pseudo-science must not be an option for Europe! Today several civil society organisations (CSOs) – including GMWatch – and industry associations published a joint letter to the European Commission, demanding that they withdraw their proposal for deregulation of plants obtained from new Continue reading

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 — GM Watch Divided Kingdom: Devolved nations and the Genetic Technology Act The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 aims to deregulate gene-edited organisms (or, as the UK government misleadingly calls them, “precision-bred organisms, PBOs). As the government moves to implement secondary legislation that will make the Act operational by the Continue reading

Friday, 14 February 2025 — GM Watch Editor’s note: We apologise for the auto-correct-generated typo in yesterday’s Daily Digest item, the title of which should have read “GM trees promoted as potential future solution to citrus greening disease – but is the (non-GM) solution already out there?” Auto-correct, in its wisdom, changed the title to Continue reading

Thursday, 13 February 2025 — GM Watch GM trees promoted as potential future solution to circus greening disease – but is the (non-GM) solution already out there? Researchers at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have developed genetically engineered trees that create a protein that forms holes in the gut of Continue reading

Tuesday, 11 February 2025 — GM Watch GMO deregulation threatens breeders, farmers, and the organic and non GMO sectors in the EU  European countries must protect farmers, small- and medium-sized seed breeders, and the organic and GM-free sectors from threats to their business posed by the deregulation of new GMOs, warns Greenpeace and more than Continue reading

Monday, 10 February 2025 — GM Watch US-funded “social network” attacking pesticide critics shuts down A US-funded “social network” attacking pesticide and GMO critics has shut down after an investigation by Lighthouse Reports in collaboration with The Guardian and others. The St Louis, Missouri-based firm, v-Fluence, said it’s shuttering the service that featured personal details Continue reading

Monday, 3 February 2025 — GM Watch Lab-grown breast milk firm goes tits-up BIOMILQ — a startup culturing mammary cells to produce bioactives found in breastmilk — has filed for bankruptcy amid a protracted IP dispute with the ex-husband of one of the cofounders that she says rendered the firm “uninvestable and unacquirable”. Founded in Continue reading

Friday, 24 January 2025 — GM Watch Brazil says soy shipments to China from five firms halted due to contamination China, the world’s biggest soybean buyer, has stopped receiving Brazilian soybean shipments from five firms after cargoes did not meet plant health requirements, according to a statement from the Brazilian government. The Brazilian agriculture ministry Continue reading

Thursday, 23 January 2025 — GM Watch ACTION ALERT: Keep GMO food regulated and labelled! Sign the petition urging the European Commission and EU national governments to take a strong stand against any attempts to exclude new GMOs from the existing EU GMO legislation and to uphold mandatory safety checks, transparency and labelling for all Continue reading

Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — GM Watch There is no “magic threshold” for new GMO safety Testbiotech has published a new backgrounder summarising recent research showing clear evidence that the EU Commission proposal for the future regulation of plants obtained from new genetic engineering (new genomic techniques, NGT) is inadequate. It would be outdated before Continue reading

Tuesday, 21 January 2025 — GM Watch Poland’s gene editing gamble leaves EU Member States baffled Poland’s bid to end an EU impasse on new gene-edited crops has flopped after its much-anticipated patent proposal was met with confusion from other member states. Poland’s proposal was meant to unite the bloc and secure a deal before Continue reading