🇺🇸Federal legislators aim to gut state and local health protections, block lawsuits against #glyphosate and other #pesticides. Lobbying disclosure records show @Bayer, which has spent big on campaign donations to members of Congress, has made passage of the legislation a priority
"Regen Ag in Spain is not needing to be led by the agro-industry.. Regen Ag works in favour of the life & health of all beings, starting with those in the soil, and thus does not include the use of toxic inputs & bio-cides, such as #glyphosate, which is also damaging to humans." 
While we’re constantly told by lobbyists that only regulations are holding back gene editing from fulfilling its promise, the authors explain that scientists are actually having difficulty engineering desirable traits into plants and bringing marketable lines of plants to market.
ENSSER says there's wide scope for interpretation of the Commission’s “20 genetic modifications” that don't require regulation. This could “result in a very complex & deeply altered organism” yet under the Commission’s proposal still be called “equivalent” to a conventional plant 
What molecular geneticist Dr Michael Antoniou, who uses gene editing in his research, told us suggests the new findings will likely kill attempts to carry out human germline editing in humans using #CRISPR/Cas—and also have relevance to gene editing of animals and possibly plants 
Chromothripsis-like effects occurred after the application of #CRISPR/Cas. In chromothripsis often several hundred genetic changes occur simultaneously in a 'catastrophic' event. Many sections of the genetic material can be swapped, twisted, recombined or even lost if this occurs
"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 
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