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Jun 11 5 tweets 4 min read
UK govt turns its back on science in #GMO free-for-all Bill gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la… GMWatch publishes its response to a Bill that's based on dishonesty and a determination to dismiss years of peer-reviewed findings on the real effects of gene editing. #GMOs
The UK govt's Bill is accompanied by an Impact Assessment. Both are deeply problematic, as they cast aside the interests of public health & the environment and raise animal welfare concerns—in the rush to smooth the path to market for new experimental #GMO crops & animals. #GMOs
Claire Robinson of GMWatch and the molecular geneticist Dr Michael Antoniou have laid out their concerns with the Bill and propose a series of Amendments. They spell all this out in easy-to-follow detail👉gmwatch.org/en/uncategoris… #GMOs
The fact we are proposing Amendments doesn't mean we accept the validity of this Bill—it is an insult to democracy, transparency & science and should be opposed outright from the start. However, we wanted to identify the specific aspects of the Bill that are the most problematic.
What you can do about the #GMO deregulation (free-for-all) Bill:
Write to your MP
beyondgm.eaction.online/regulate-label…
Sign this petition
donthide.gmfreeze.org
Please do it today (before the Bill's second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 14 June) and please share widely!

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Jun 11
Scotland's Environment Minister signals no change to #GMO regime in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 gov.scot/publications/g… In a letter to the UK Govt, the Minister says Scotland won't be deregulating and it opposes no labelling of #NewGMOs—"the public have a right to know what they are consuming."
"The Scottish Govt remains wholly opposed to the imposition of the Internal Market Act, and will not accept any constraint on the exercise of its devolved powers to set standards within devolved policy areas." Refers to unlabelled #GMOs from England being marketed in Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
"Your own consultation last year rejected the changes to the regulation of GM that you're now pursuing. Consumer information & choice is key. I'm therefore extremely concerned that the UK Govt’s preferred option, as set out in the Bill documentation, will not require labelling.."
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Jun 1
BBC slammed for “lies” about gene-edited foods but it refuses to correct its misreporting gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la… In multiple stories the BBC has hidden the fact that the Govt is “deregulating all manner of genetic manipulations of crops”—Dr Michael Antoniou, Kings College London
The BBC & other UK media have repeated ad nauseam the govt's lie that gene editing only involves “snipping out a small piece of DNA” but anyone who reads the govt's bill will see it includes the insertion of foreign DNA as “part and parcel of the deregulation”—Dr Michael Antoniou
#GMO promoters claim foreign DNA can be removed from gene-edited plants like stitches from a wound. But it's not so clean a process: “The gene-editing tool DNA can fragment & bits can randomly insert in many locations around the DNA of the plant and that is not being checked for”
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May 31
UK Gene-Editing Bill Raises Animal Welfare Concerns theepochtimes.com/uk-gene-editin… Experts warn that, contrary to the hype, the technology is imprecise and will open the door to the “wild west” of genetics. #GMOs
“It’s not precise, so the term ‘precision breeding’ is a complete misnomer. In addition to any intended genetic modification you invariably have large numbers of unintended alterations to the organism.” These could include the production of toxins and allergens in plants or crops
“It’s a ‘wild west’ of gene-editing of crops, plants and animals and even bacteria that are going to be released into the environment in an uncontrolled way,” says Dr Michael Antoniou, lead geneticist in gene expression and therapy at King’s College London. #GMOs
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May 30
Health and environmental groups raise alarm as EU Chemicals Agency fails to classify glyphosate as a human carcinogen gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la… Some of the world’s leading independent scientists have made the link between #glyphosate and cancer but ECHA refuses to do so
“Unfortunately, it's not the 1st time ECHA has failed to transparently and clearly justify its dismissal of independent scientific evidence. That’s incredibly worrying given the EU’s commitment & duty to protect its citizens & the environment from the most hazardous substances.”
Unlike ECHA, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, the gold standard for cancer research, finds #glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen. It has also been linked to adverse effects on human development, reproduction and hormonal systems.
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May 29
Food experts slam the BBC for 'lies' about gene-edited foods thenational.scot/news/20173456.… If you can’t open, try here
archive.ph/nZckK #GMOs
The BBC and other media have been accused of “repeating uncritically and ad nauseam” UK Government “lies” about genetically edited foods. “They’re literally ripping up the rulebook on all types of genetic ­modification procedures & being completely dishonest to the science.” #GMO
Dr Michael Antoniou, a ­genetics expert from the King’s College London School of Medicine, said claims gene editing didn't involve genes from other species “misrepresented” the facts. “Under the new bill, the insertion of foreign DNA is part and parcel of the deregulation.” #GMOs
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New impacts of glyphosate:
Silvia Ribeiro of @ETC_Group summarises the latest scientific studies confirming the damaging impact of #glyphosate on human, animal and plant health caused via harmful imbalances in the digestive & immune systems jornada.com.mx/2022/04/23/opi… (Spanish text) Image
@ETC_Group It's not just cancer. A Canadian study published in 2022 studies the association of neurological and psychiatric diseases with the disruption of the intestinal flora in humans due to #glyphosate, a disruption that would also have intergenerational impacts frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
@ETC_Group On top of the known effects of hormonal disruption, new study shows the presence of glyphosate residues and/or its metabolites in post-menopausal women is associated with DNA methylation, a molecular alteration that can cause cancer & accelerate cell aging ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EH…
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