genetically modified organisms
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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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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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“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
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EU ambassadors back new GMOs deregulation: A dark day for farmers, consumers, nature
Today, EU Member States’ deputy ambassadors voted to widely deregulate the new generation of genetically modified organisms (new GMOs, so-called “new genomic techniques”), which means exempting them from any labelling, safety checks, monitoring and liability requirements. 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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The Future of Food? Genetic Engineering, Value Capture and Dependency
GM crops are required to feed the world is a well-worn industry slogan trotted out at every available opportunity. Just like the claim of GM crops being a tremendous success, this too is based on a myth. Continue reading
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Dystopian Farm: the UK dairy industry & its technofixes
As the bill on gene-edited food goes through parliament, Corporate Watch takes a look at the dystopian technologies in the UK dairy industry and on the horizon. Continue reading
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Ukraine: War Within the War: The Fight Over Land and Genetically Engineered Agriculture
Ten months before Russian troops poured into Ukraine, that country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill into law authorizing the private sale of farmland, reversing a moratorium that had been in place since 2001. Continue reading
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The Agri-Food Model, Unregulated Gene Editing Technologies
6 April 2021 — Global Research Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy and Minimum Support Price By Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policy makers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in laboratories, the expanded use of patented Continue reading
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Pesticide toxicity to invertebrates and pollinators increasing in GM crops
Some just published research in the journal Science completely demolishes claims that the impact of pesticides is declining and that GM crops are contributing to this positive trend. Continue reading
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EU: Vice-President Timmermans, don’t deregulate GM crops and animals
New GM techniques can cause unwanted genetic errors that can result in the production of novel toxins or allergens, warn civil society and farmer groups Continue reading
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GMWatch publishes its response to UK government consultation on deregulation of gene editing
GMWatch has submitted its response to the UK government consultation on the deregulation of gene editing in food and farming. The response is co-authored by GMWatch editor Claire Robinson, acting on behalf of GMWatch, and molecular geneticist Dr Michael Antoniou, who is responding as an individual. Continue reading
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Responding to the UK government’s public consultation on gene editing
Here are some information/action points to help you respond to the DEFRA Consultation on the Regulation of Genetic Technologies. The response needs to be in by 17 March – the closing date of the consultation. Continue reading
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GMWatch mythbuster exposes UK government misinformation on gene editing
Just over three weeks into the consultation the “Explainer” suddenly seemed to disappear from DEFRA’s website, possibly as a result of complaints. Continue reading
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Over 2,000 studies and journal publications document risks and harms from GMOs and related pesticides
The US nonprofit GMO/Toxin Free USA has launched GMOResearch.org, the first-of-its-kind searchable science database of studies and reports on the safety and effects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and associated agrochemicals. Continue reading
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GM groups call on the public: Ask Ministers to reject plans to de-regulate gene editing
Three of the UK’s largest GM campaigns – GM Freeze, Beyond GM and GMWatch – have joined together to oppose an amendment to the Agriculture Bill that would give the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs George Eustice, the power to change the definition of a GMO and re-classify many forms of… Continue reading
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Gene Editing: Scientifically indefensible, anti-democratic, and harmful to trade
An amendment has been tabled[1] in the UK House of Lords to the Agriculture Bill, seeking to change the definition of a genetically modified organism (GMO) in the UK’s Environmental Protection Act (1990) in order to exempt certain types of new genetic modification techniques, such as gene editing, from GMO regulations, within the context of… Continue reading
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Can GM crops really “feed the world”? Challenging the Flawed Premise Behind Pushing GMOs into Indian Agriculture
A common claim is that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are essential to agriculture if we are to feed an ever-growing global population. Supporters of genetically engineered (GE) crops argue that by increasing productivity and yields, this technology will also help boost farmers’ incomes and lift many out of poverty. Continue reading
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Biotech research institute VIB misleads public and regulators in lobby campaign
VIB falsely claims that individual academic supporters for de-regulation of gene editing represent their institutes as a whole Continue reading
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GMO Myths and Truths (4th edition) includes new chapter on gene editing
Book explains the threat to food safety and environment posed by gene-edited GMOs Continue reading
The New Dark Age 