Health
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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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The Weight-Loss Injection Scam: Feeding Pharma Greed
The UK government is betting big on injectable weight-loss drugs. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting are even promoting them as the solution to getting the unemployed back to work, claiming the shots will not only tackle obesity but also boost the UK economy. In reality, however, their enthusiasm for these… Continue reading
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The Notional Health Service
Today is my 66th birthday, so I am hoping that you will forgive an article that is at core the anecdotal ramblings of an old man. It was inspired by horror at Wes Streeting (I could end the sentence there but I shall continue it) ‘s plan to give weight loss jabs to the unemployed. Continue reading
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Five facts that prove the NHS needs more cash
There are eerie parallels between the state the NHS is in now, and the state it was in when Labour last took over in government from the Conservatives. Back in 1997 Tony Blair’s New Labour party got into office with a pledge to save the NHS – much like Keir Starmer is promising to do… Continue reading
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Monkeypox: Soap Opera of the Summer or New Edition of the Pandemic of Fear?
On Wednesday, August 14, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on behalf of WHO, declared an “international public health emergency” due to monkeypox. He cited the existence in several African countries of 40,000 cases and 1,456 deaths from this cause since 2022. He called for the governments of different countries around the world to equip themselves with large… Continue reading
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EVENT: mental health and the education system
As we head towards the end of summer, in a couple of weeks children across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be returning to school, whilst students in Scotland have already recommenced. Continue reading
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Fixing the broken mental health system
Did you know that the number of children referred to emergency mental healthcare has soared by more than 50% in three years? Continue reading
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Palantir’s NHS Federated Data Platform
It’s been a while since our last newsletter, and if you signed up to find out if NHS England would provide more details to help you with your choices around its half-billion pound Palantir platform before it “goes live” at the end of March, the answer is now clear. They won’t. Continue reading
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What I’m seeing in NHS mental health services
This is really serious. Did you see the latest news that there’s been a 26% drop in nursing applications? When I saw these headlines, I was filled with dread. But to tell you the truth, I wasn’t surprised. Continue reading
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“When is help coming?”
This was the question my 78-year-old mum Jackie asked me as she lay in agony on the floor following a fall at home. I couldn’t give her an answer. In the end, an ambulance only arrived 11 hours after we rang 999. She died in hospital 2 days later after an infection turned to sepsis. Continue reading
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Taxpayers not manufacturers made to pay compensation to patients
Many patients have been fighting for years for compensation after birth defects and developmental disorders were caused by the epilepsy drug Valproate; pain and tissue erosions caused by synthetic mesh used in incontinence operations or the reproductive and fetal developmental problems caused by Primodos. Dr Henrietta Hughes, the Patient Safety Commissioner (PSC), has released her… Continue reading
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Big pharma greed is costing lives
Under our current healthcare system, every day the greed of big pharmaceutical companies puts patients’ lives at risk. Big pharma’s monopolies allow them to limit supply so they can keep prices high, and that stops patients being able to access the drugs they need. 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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Plastics a Big Factor in Rapidly Declining Sperm Counts, Expert Says
Sperm counts are declining worldwide — and at a rate more than double that since the turn of the century — according to one of the world’s leading environmental and reproductive epidemiologists, who says endocrine-disrupting chemicals are likely to blame. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 