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Mar 2

100% of members of UK govt's #GMO advisory body have potential or actual conflicts of interest—List of interests reads like a Who's Who of the British biotech industry! gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…

All members of ACRE have COIs that may enable them to benefit from any weakening of the regs around GMOs + in spite of ACRE's role in regulating environmental releases of #GMOs, only 1 of ACRE's panel has expertise in ecology and none seem to have ANY in environmental toxicology.

Get this! Jim Dunwell, the chair of this "independent" #GMO advisory body to the UK govt, was a founding member of the biotech industry-funded lobby group CropGen that says its mission is "to make the case for GM crops and foods." He also gets a pension from GMO giant Syngenta.

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Jan 10

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This @chicagotribune editorial bends over backwards to say #GMOs are fab (claiming they do all kinds of things they've never managed, and that they've been eaten safely "for generations"!!) in the course of saying USDA's new #GMO labeling is a pile of💩 chicagotribune.com/opinion/editor…

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@chicagotribune A straightforward mandate to better inform the public has been turned into a complicated decision tree only a bureaucrat could love. The govt has replaced the commonly used terms “genetically modified” & #GMO. Instead, food manufacturers are required to use “bioengineered” or BE.

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@chicagotribune The USDA's “bioengineered” or BE labels are supposed to disclose ingredients “derived from biotechnology” or “ingredients derived from a bioengineered source.” Yet refined products can dodge ANY disclosure via "a loophole you could drive a tractor through", says @chicagotribune

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Oct 31, 2021

New book on #COVID-19 origins was plagued by censorship; concludes "overwhelming" evidence that virus was genetically engineered lab escape gmwatch.org/en/news/latest…

Our review includes exclusive interviews with two of the authors, investigative journalist Paolo Barnard and Prof Angus Dalgleish, about their experiences of censorship over #COVID19 & the lab origin theory, and how that played out in relation to their new book.

Paolo B. says when he was looking for scientist co-authors for the book they told him "dissent in writing is career-threatening" and "just be aware Fauci & NIH is a no-go area for this book. My total funding for the last 15 years has been from NIH and similarly into the future.."

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Sep 25, 2021

Seed monopolies: Who controls the world's food supply? dw.com/en/agriculture… Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security

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For thousands of years of human agriculture, seeds were freely exchanged and shared. All that changed in the 1990s when laws were introduced to protect new #GMO crops. Today, 4 corporations — @Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina and Limagrain — control more than 50% of the world's seeds.

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@Bayer Most countries only allow patents—exclusive ownership rights that weren't originally created with living organisms in mind—on #GMO seeds. But other plant varieties can also be strictly controlled by another type of intellectual property legislation called Plant Variety Protection

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Aug 6, 2021

Study finds link between glyphosate exposure and shorter pregnancy length, which can increase babies' risk of long-term health problems ehn.org/study-finds-li… Confirms earlier research which also found shorter pregnancies more likely

Latest study follows 2 others on glyphosate & pregnancy length, including 1 in Indiana that found women with higher #glyphosate levels were more likely to have shorter pregnancies, which can increase the risk of infant mortality, long-term health challenges & intellectual delays.

The study raises questions about potential effects of even low-dose exposures to glyphosate among the general population, since the study found shorter pregnancies were linked to #glyphosate levels in the women's bodies that were well below current US regulatory thresholds.

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Jul 27, 2021

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Brilliant interview with @careygillam on the nuts & bolts of agriculture & pesticide disinformation disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/a-candid-con… Carey's just been blocked by corporate sponsors of a big ag media event from talking to fellow journalists about how to investigate stories using FOIA

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@careygillam Carey says corporate money is at play in journalism conferences and gives example of how @Bayer—in exchange for v generous donations—positioned itself to not just set agendas for journalistic conferences but get a say in what kind of stories are applauded and promoted via awards.

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@careygillam @Bayer Carey & @thackerpd also discuss the evidence of Monsanto's targeting of journalists & scientists via front groups & other third parties. One group targeting Carey et al was told, “The key will be keeping #Monsanto in the background so as not to harm the credibility of the info.”

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