It's increasingly important to denounce the modus operandi of Israeli agribusiness, among other reasons because of the export of the colonial model it has developed to the detriment of Palestine. This includes, as in Hebron, destroying seed stocks that are part of Palestinian plant genetic heritage.

[Call for donations] There are 11 days left [only five now!] to help us fund Trần Tố Nga's lawsuit against #Monsanto and others on behalf of the victims of Agent Orange. Her appeal against 14 multinational corporations is expected to take place by the end of 2026. #JusticePourTranToNga

Tribute to Brewster Kneen (1933-2025) by Jim Goodman. In the acknowledgements for his book Farmageddon: Food and the Culture of Biotechnology, Brewster closes with a line that is so evocative of him: “May the weeds in the crops of monoculture grow strong.” www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/23/a...

Co-founder of Colossal Biosciences Ben Lamm has a history of hyping up “world-changing” ventures that ultimately lead nowhere. Cheerleading false techno-fixes like de-extinction in the media distracts from real attempts to address biodiversity loss and climate change.

@jesshamzelou.bsky.social in @techreviewjp.bsky.social on (off shore, mainly in Honduras) companies offering gene therapy for lots of things. Good (critical) comments from Holly Fernandez-Lynch. I wouldn't want anyone I cared about to try these w/o good proof www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/22/1...

In response to concerns over “designer babies,” a government panel of experts in Japan approved a proposal to submit legislation that would ban the implantation of a genome-edited fertilized human egg.

After a U.S. Court of Appeals—Ninth Circuit—decision upheld #USDA's “bioengineered” food label language, Beyond Pesticides, with people across the country, renewed the call for truth in labeling! #GE #products #misleading 🔗📣 Take Action: https://ow.ly/jhvy50XNlcj 🔗➡️ Blog: https://ow.ly/yLSb50XNlcl

Gene editing disrupts multiple gene functions through large-scale epigenetic changes in a way that persists through successive cell generations, a recently published scientific study shows. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

A qualified majority of EU Member States are now siding with biotech MNCs on #GMO deregulation—at the expense of farmers, the food sector, consumers, and the environment. It is now up to the European Parliament to reject this deal, say @saveourseeds.bsky.social gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

The company that cried “dire wolf”. When you tell a lie, tell it big. Make it frolic and give it pointy ears. And make it white. V white. That’s what Colossal Biosciences did when it unveiled three snow-white animals it claimed were actual dire wolves, which went extinct more than 10 millennia ago.

A study showing synergistic effects of #glyphosate and urea #fertilizers is the latest indicator of the current system's #inadequacy in regulating #pesticides. 📣 In the absence of adequate regulation, tell your local mayors that adopting #organic land management is vital: https://ow.ly/v4TN50Xs4ix

EU Deal on #GMO Deregulation: It’s telling that even farmers’ organisations supportive of NGT crops are deeply concerned. The German Farmers Association has warned that the damage caused by the expansion of patents could far outweigh any hoped-for benefits. www.arc2020.eu/eu-deal-on-g...

EU Member States approve the deregulation of GMOs obtained by new #GMO techniques. European Coordination Via Campesina (@eurovia.org), representing small- and medium-scale farmers, denounces this “strategic error for Europe’s food and seed sovereignty.” gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

Faking it without making it: The de-extinction disinfo campaign manager’s history of hype. How Colossal Biosciences’ CEO Ben Lamm keeps the hype cycle going. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

The refusal by Health Canada to reasses the safety of #glyphosate after the retraction of a "cornerstone" cancer study has critics doubting the agency's credibility: "I don't think any of us will trust anything [the regulator] PMRA is going to say." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/111/...

Bad news. Despite Germany, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, and Slovakia not supporting deregulation of new GMOs, it got voted through! A black day for environmental protection and the rights of farmers and consumers, over 90% of whom wanted labelling of new GMOs.

In an interview, CGS’ Katie Hasson explains that allowing heritable genome editing risks “acceptance of the idea that certain children are genetically superior to others" -- even if untrue. That idea "can be harmful in society... we’ve seen that in the history of eugenics.”

The company that cried “dire wolf”. When you tell a lie, tell it big. Make it frolic and give it pointy ears. And make it white. V white. That’s what Colossal Biosciences did when it unveiled three snow-white animals it claimed were actual dire wolves, which went extinct more than 10 millennia ago.

The European Council will vote tomorrow on new regulations regarding new GMOs (NGTs). If they approve the current proposal, large, global corporations will be able to apply for #patents, giving them significant control over our food supply. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Gene editing disrupts multiple gene functions through large-scale epigenetic changes in a way that persists through successive cell generations, a recently published scientific study shows. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

Detection of genome-edited organisms with subtle mutations is possible. The method was able to detect the presence of a new #GMO even at very low levels of 0.9-0.1%. This would be sensitive enough to detect cases of unintended contamination. biosafety-info.net/articles/bio...

The government of Paraguay, corporations and trade associations are trying to position pesticide-laden soybean plantations under the banner of "regenerative" agriculture in Latin America. consen.so/p/the-methan...

I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.

TLDR, while #Deextinction didn’t happen the #hype, #fraud, #DarkPR and #Disinformation campaigns very much did 🧪 🐺

⛔ To make things worse, on Friday EU countries are set to vote on patented GM crop deregulation, which will further farmers dependence on just a few seed corporations, and create more safety risks. 👉 Take action now against the toxic Omnibus on pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...

I have a new open access article out, co-authored with @alejopedregal.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić, called 'For an Anti-Imperialist Ecological Modernity'. The article introduces a special issue we've edited on ecomodernism and imperialism. But it does much more than that. A thread. 1/13

The refusal by Health Canada to reasses the safety of #glyphosate after the retraction of a "cornerstone" cancer study has critics doubting the agency's credibility: "I don't think any of us will trust anything [the regulator] PMRA is going to say." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/111/...

Faking it without making it: The de-extinction disinfo campaign manager’s history of hype. How Colossal Biosciences’ CEO Ben Lamm keeps the hype cycle going. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

“The World Health Organization has recognized #glyphosate as a probable carcinogen while the #EPA continues to twist itself into pretzels to come to the opposite conclusion,” Lori Ann Burd, director of the Center’s environmental health program, told Common Dreams. #pesticides #PFAS

'Pretty ecomodernist in many ways' would be a fair, if mild, take on Regenesis. Whereas @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's latest Guardian article is totally ecomodernist by George's own definition of the term, as I explain in my essay. Money from Bezos to finesse carbon markets - what'll it be next?

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social strenuously objected to Chris labelling his Regenesis book 'ecomodernist'. But the UK's leading ecomodernist—Mark Lynas—also found Regenesis to be 'pretty ecomodernist in many ways'. More on how George has allied himself with ecomodernists here gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...

Israeli military raids Palestinian seed bank - 8 people abducted & equipment & resources for food security and Food Sovereignty destroyed or stolen - including Palestinian heritage seeds. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/12/04/i...

Congratulations to @lizagrandia.bsky.social, winner of the LACS-SHA 2025 Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize!

🚨 The seed bank of Palestinian peasants has been destroyed by Israeli occupation forces. This occurred on 1 December during a raid on La Via Campesina's member organisation in Palestine. It’s a direct attack on food sovereignty. viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...

1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!

A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup--aka glyphosate--“does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted 8 years after documents released in a court case revealed employees of Monsanto, the company that developed it, wrote the article but were not named as coauthors.

Journal Finally Retracts Roundup Cancer Study Reliant on #Monsanto Research and Ghostwriting. Cornerstone of safety for decades: “the article’s conclusions regarding the carcinogenicity of #glyphosate are solely based on unpublished studies from Monsanto.” www.commondreams.org/news/roundup...

☠️ New GMOs: The result of last night comes down to a massive handout of our foodchain to pesticide firms like Bayer and BASF. This is a vast #deregulation: 🚨scrapping safety standards, 🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose 🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents

Bad deal reached on new #GMO deregulation file in EU trilogue. No risk assessment, traceability or labelling for 94% of new GMOs (NGTs): rapporteur Jessica Polfjard (the one grinning her head off in the photo) betrays intent of the European Parliament. Details gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...

"There were few people better placed to know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com

The agreement reached yesterday is disaster. For most of the new genomic techniques: no traceability, no labelling of products, no monitoring of environmental impact, no coexistence measures, and full-on patent system that will kill the small seed breeders.

Crunchtime: tonight last planned negotiation on deregulation of new GM food (#NGTs): will negotiators Jessica Polfjard and Denmark allow for no safety, no consumer choice, but patented food? Save Our Seeds, FOEE, Solidagro and CEO handed over 500K signatures from citizens who want freedom of choice.

🚨 Big day in Brussels: NGOs representatives handed over a 500.000 signature petition demanding that GM food remains labelled. Tonight’s trilogue might be the last one on this file. EU negotiators now have half a million reasons to protect transparency & consumer choice. Fingers crossed. 💥🌱

Influential study on #glyphosate safety retracted 25 yrs after publication. The widely cited study, which concluded glyphosate was safe, has just been officially disavowed. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by #Monsanto. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

Trump administration sides with Bayer. "MAHA voters chose this administration because they were tired of watching captured regulators sign off on chemicals poisoning their families, not because they wanted Washington to hand pesticide giants a liability shield." www.thenewlede.org/2025/12/trum...

🎥Two Danish short films are asking the questions Brussels would rather skip Right now, the EU is negotiating whether to deregulate gene-edited plants – current proposals are without risk assessment and no labeling on food. 🕵️ These films take a step back and ask: Do we actually need this? ✨🌻

Author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, @gdstone.bsky.social discusses how the Green Revolution didn’t speed up food production—but did fuel the growth of fertilizers and #pesticides. It also provided a heroic legend that is completely untrue! exchange.prx.org/pieces/595920

From the retraction notice: "The paper had a significant impact on regulatory decision-making regarding #glyphosate and Roundup for decades. Given its status as a cornerstone in the assessment of glyphosate's safety..." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 NEWS! Last week a key paper defending #glyphosate, ghostwritten by #Monsanto (now #Bayer), is retracted after undermining safety decisions for 25 years! 👉 This should lead to the EU to reconsider glyphosate's permit on the EU market. 😡 But EC and Big Polluters team up to weaken safety rules

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