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The Fumigated Peoples of Argentina and comrades from other fumigated towns in the "United Republic of Soybeans" in Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia are meeting and marching this week in Rosario🇦🇷 for food sovereignty and freedom from fumigation! #GMOs anred.org/2023/06/16/enc…
They're mobilising against the concentration, expulsion, poisoning, disease and death agribusiness brings with its #GMO soy and #pesticides. There have also been talks and workshops organized by the Institute of Socio-Environmental Health of the National University of Rosario. Image
"We cannot continue producing crops based on chemicals poisoning people. What they are doing is crazy. The State cannot continue endorsing this way of producing, they are responsible for the economic, environmental and health disaster that is taking place" unosantafe.com.ar/santa-fe/los-p…
To understand how #GMO soybeans have created such massive environmental injustice in Argentina, check out this illuminating review by @RogueChieftan of @dr_leguizamon's book: Seeds of Power. #Monsanto #glyphosate #GMOs acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acon… Image
@RogueChieftan @dr_leguizamon According to a new study, spontaneous abortions (miscarriages) have tripled in fumigated towns at the heart of Argentina's (#GMO) soy industry elciudadanoweb.com/segun-estudio-…
@RogueChieftan @dr_leguizamon Earlier this year the same researchers published a study in Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health that found younger people in the same heavily sprayed area of Argentina are 2.5 times more likely to die from cancer gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…

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Jun 16
Leaked proposal to deregulate new #GMOs — European Commission plan gives in to #GMO seed corporations and means more risks and more market domination gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la… Image
"If this proposal goes through, it will mean these #GMOs will no longer be subject to risk assessment for health and environment, or traceability or labelling. This will increase biosafety risks and abolish consumer choice. And patents will erode farmers’ rights." — @nina_holland Image
@nina_holland "It'll lead to further monopolisation of the seed market. The assumption the Commission makes that new #GMOs will lead to more sustainability are based on industry's claims, not real evidence. In reality, this is a give-away to the biotech seed firms like @Bayer, Corteva & @BASF" Image
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Jun 15
More things in Heaven and Earth: Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate. #Glyphosate reduces levels of beneficial mycorrhizae. Organic farming leads to healthier mycorrhizal communities. And there's more than fungi to the soil microbiome! sustainablefoodtrust.org/news-views/mor…
A Dutch study found that arable fields under organic management had more arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi species than conventionally managed ones, with the difference becoming increasingly significant as time passed, following conversion to organic methods nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.…
The same study also showed that organic soils had mycorrhizal communities which were more diverse than farmed soils not under organic management, and more similar to those found under natural grasslands — a finding that was replicated in this Swiss study link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Jun 8
New study shows push-pull tech consistently controls pests and greatly increases maize yields. Replaces pesticides and synthetic fertilizers with carefully managed biodiversity scidev.net/global/news/pu…
“The key finding of our study is that push-pull actually gets better the longer it is established,” said Tim Luttermoser, the study’s lead researcher. It's led to “massive yield benefits for farmers”, usually between double & triple yields compared to farms w/ non-push-pull tech.
The researchers say ecologically intensified pest management systems such as push-pull systems are more durable than chemical pesticides as pests frequently evolve pesticide resistance but rarely adapt to overcome ecologically intensified systems. In fact, pests decrease w/ time.
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Jun 8
Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about #GMOs, cultural identity, food sovereignty and the U.S.'s imperialistic relationship with Mexico | Good article from @Salon salon.com/2023/06/07/esc…
@Salon US wants dispute confined to discussion of scientific evidence about whether #GMO corn is directly harmful to health. Ideal arena for agribiz, given the majority of industry research dollars have been spent on new products rather than health & safety evaluations of consuming them
@Salon Science writers often report on early-stage research promising plants using less water etc. but what's missing is which #GMOs get distributed. The most widely used #GMO corn is #glyphosate tolerant. W/ so much sprayed come resistant weeds which leads farmers to use old herbicides
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Jun 7
#GMO cotton: three Indian states refuse to say yes to field trials - regulator trying to pressure them downtoearth.org.in/news/agricultu…
Only Haryana has approved biosafety research trials of #GMO cotton hybrids out of the four states in which locations for such trials were chosen. Telangana and Gujarat have refused to give no objection certificates (NOC) for holding the trials & Maharashtra has not responded yet.
India's regulator (GEAC) is now pushing Maharashtra to respond and the other states to explain why they have refused to agree to the #GMO field trials. If the regulator gets no response within 30 days, it says it will "make appropriate recommendations". This sounds like coercion.
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Jun 3
Argentina has just approved its 70th #GMO. It's a soybean variety modified to tolerate two herbicides: the carcinogenic glyphosate and glufosinate (banned in the EU). The latter is considered up to 15 times more toxic than #glyphosate itself.
Argentina's latest GMO soybean is part of a commercial offering that includes #GMO varieties of corn, potato, wheat, safflower, cotton & alfalfa. And it precedes the imminent launch of the 1st variety of GMO sugarcane conceived in local laboratories.
None of these #GMO crops incorporate any nutritional improvement, reduce the use of poisons or achieve exorbitant yields as advertised by the companies that commercialise them, the media co-opted by agribusiness, and complicit politicians
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