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Thousands of wild American chestnut trees are thriving—rewriting the story of a species once thought lost. Their resilience challenges the widespread claim that only genetic engineering can restore the species. The wild American chestnut is already returning, naturally. Check out the documentary 👇
"The offspring of these American chestnut trees are producing offspring. These trees are going to on and on."
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November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Thousands of wild American chestnut trees are thriving—rewriting the story of a species once thought lost. Their resilience challenges the widespread claim that only genetic engineering can restore the species. The wild American chestnut is already returning, naturally. Check out the documentary 👇
Seed sovereignty reigns in Kenya! Punitive sections of the seed and plant varieties act have been declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the High Court. Farmers are free to save,share, and exchange their indigenous seeds. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Kenyan farmers secure right to share local seeds in court ruling
Small-scale farmers in Kenya sang and celebrated on Thursday after a court ruling secured their right to carry on the traditional practice of sharing local seeds.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Seed sovereignty reigns in Kenya! Punitive sections of the seed and plant varieties act have been declared UNCONSTITUTIONAL by the High Court. Farmers are free to save,share, and exchange their indigenous seeds. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Two farmers just handed over 130.000 signatures calling on German ministries to protect GMO-free farming ✨
A massive call for transparency, risk assessment, and the precautionary principle regarding genetic engineering.
Huge thanks to everyone who signed, shared and supported💚
#newGMO #GMOfree
A massive call for transparency, risk assessment, and the precautionary principle regarding genetic engineering.
Huge thanks to everyone who signed, shared and supported💚
#newGMO #GMOfree
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Stacy Malkan explains how a handful of pesticide corporations shaped science, policy & public opinion on GMOs using extensive PR operations, including front groups, paid academics, and aggressive attacks on critics. The strategy mirrors that of tobacco companies. www.newsghana.com.gh/afsa-podcast...
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Stacy Malkan explains how a handful of pesticide corporations shaped science, policy & public opinion on GMOs using extensive PR operations, including front groups, paid academics, and aggressive attacks on critics. The strategy mirrors that of tobacco companies. www.newsghana.com.gh/afsa-podcast...
US tech billionaire pumps $60 million into British firm to develop #GMO crops and AI. Larry Ellison is also a major funder of the Tony Blair Institute, which cheerleads for GMOs and AI. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
US tech billionaire pumps $60 million into British firm to develop GM crops and AI
Larry Ellison is also a major funder of the Tony Blair Institute, which cheerleads for GM and AI. Report: Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews
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November 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
US tech billionaire pumps $60 million into British firm to develop #GMO crops and AI. Larry Ellison is also a major funder of the Tony Blair Institute, which cheerleads for GMOs and AI. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
Thousands of wild American chestnut trees are thriving—rewriting the story of a species once thought lost. Their resilience challenges the widespread claim that only genetic engineering can restore the species. The wild American chestnut is already returning, naturally. Check out the documentary 👇
"The offspring of these American chestnut trees are producing offspring. These trees are going to on and on."
Register for Dec 4 global premiere of 'The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns': us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @gmwatch.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social
Register for Dec 4 global premiere of 'The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns': us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @gmwatch.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social @hoodwinkedhothouse.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Thousands of wild American chestnut trees are thriving—rewriting the story of a species once thought lost. Their resilience challenges the widespread claim that only genetic engineering can restore the species. The wild American chestnut is already returning, naturally. Check out the documentary 👇
Designer baby techs—supercharged by Silicon Valley’s wealth & distorted visions of the future—are sending us hurtling toward a world of industrial-scale production of #GMO humans—one designed to establish current economic elites as future biological elites. www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical...
Silicon Valley’s race to produce genetically engineered humans
www.geneticsandsociety.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Designer baby techs—supercharged by Silicon Valley’s wealth & distorted visions of the future—are sending us hurtling toward a world of industrial-scale production of #GMO humans—one designed to establish current economic elites as future biological elites. www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical...
RNA pesticide causing concern in Europe. Manufacturer claims its pesticide has no effect on bees, butterflies, mammals, but available data remains v limited. We mustn't make the same disastrous mistakes with genetic pesticides we made with chemical ones—says @pollinis.org entrevue.fr/en/societe/u...
SOCIETY: An RNA pesticide worries Europe
A new pesticide, based not on a chemical molecule but on targeted genetic action, is currently being evaluated by European authorities.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
RNA pesticide causing concern in Europe. Manufacturer claims its pesticide has no effect on bees, butterflies, mammals, but available data remains v limited. We mustn't make the same disastrous mistakes with genetic pesticides we made with chemical ones—says @pollinis.org entrevue.fr/en/societe/u...
Geneticist Challenges #GMO Safety Claims in African Agriculture Podcast. Current regulatory frameworks fail to account for significant health risks demonstrated in animal studies. www.newsghana.com.gh/geneticist-c...
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Geneticist Challenges #GMO Safety Claims in African Agriculture Podcast. Current regulatory frameworks fail to account for significant health risks demonstrated in animal studies. www.newsghana.com.gh/geneticist-c...
GMO-Free Seed Production Under Threat! Consequences of new #GMO (NGT) deregulation on the ground. Without GMO-free seeds, a GMO-free agricultural and food industry is not possible. www.arc2020.eu/gmo-free-see...
GMO-Free Seed Production Under Threat! Consequences of NGT deregulation on the ground | Agricultural and Rural Convention
Without GMO-free seeds, a GMO-free agricultural and food industry is not possible. Yet there has been little discussion of the potential impact on GMO-free seed production of the European Commission's...
www.arc2020.eu
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
GMO-Free Seed Production Under Threat! Consequences of new #GMO (NGT) deregulation on the ground. Without GMO-free seeds, a GMO-free agricultural and food industry is not possible. www.arc2020.eu/gmo-free-see...
Organic farmers protest #GMO as Terra Madre Asia Pacific opens in Bacolod. Ugandan Edward Mukiibi, president of @slowfoodhq.bsky.social, asked the audience, which included provincial officials, to reject GMOs and champion biodiversity instead. #TerraMadre rappler.com/philippines/...
Organic farmers protest GMO as Terra Madre Asia Pacific opens in Bacolod
Organic farmers and activists flash anti-GMO placards as Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson welcomes hundreds of foreign delegates
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November 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Organic farmers protest #GMO as Terra Madre Asia Pacific opens in Bacolod. Ugandan Edward Mukiibi, president of @slowfoodhq.bsky.social, asked the audience, which included provincial officials, to reject GMOs and champion biodiversity instead. #TerraMadre rappler.com/philippines/...
EU judges pull plug on pesticide approval loophole. The judges called time on the European Commission's routine pesticide extensions, faulting the agency for years of regulatory drift that kept #glyphosate and other chemicals on shelves. www.courthousenews.com/eu-judges-pu...
EU judges pull plug on pesticide approval loophole
The judges called time on the European Commission's routine pesticide extensions, faulting the agency for years of regulatory drift that kept glyphosate and other chemicals on shelves.
www.courthousenews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
EU judges pull plug on pesticide approval loophole. The judges called time on the European Commission's routine pesticide extensions, faulting the agency for years of regulatory drift that kept #glyphosate and other chemicals on shelves. www.courthousenews.com/eu-judges-pu...
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Heard rumours about Bayer/Monsanto stepping out of #glyphosate? Don't celebrate too soon. The company just joined the European Commission to defend the weedkiller in the EU court.
We challenge governments and chemical giants. Support us: www.pan-europe.info/great-glypho...
We challenge governments and chemical giants. Support us: www.pan-europe.info/great-glypho...
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Heard rumours about Bayer/Monsanto stepping out of #glyphosate? Don't celebrate too soon. The company just joined the European Commission to defend the weedkiller in the EU court.
We challenge governments and chemical giants. Support us: www.pan-europe.info/great-glypho...
We challenge governments and chemical giants. Support us: www.pan-europe.info/great-glypho...
Farmer and MEP @martinhaeusling.bsky.social has publicly attacked Jessica Polfjard for ignoring the European Parliament’s overwhelming vote, and selling out on #patents in particular. Since he’s participating in the trilogue meetings, his voice carries weight. www.martin-haeusling.eu/presse-medie...
Deregulierung der Neuen Gentechnik: Druck im Trilog wächst: Parlamentsmandat droht missachtet zu werden
www.martin-haeusling.eu
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Farmer and MEP @martinhaeusling.bsky.social has publicly attacked Jessica Polfjard for ignoring the European Parliament’s overwhelming vote, and selling out on #patents in particular. Since he’s participating in the trilogue meetings, his voice carries weight. www.martin-haeusling.eu/presse-medie...
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The BAYER corporation emits around three million tonnes of greenhouse gases every year. Nevertheless, it is allowed to present itself as "part of the solution" at the #COP30 together with other agro-giants. The @cbg-network.bsky.social criticised this at the climate strike on 14 November.
Der BAYER-Konzern stößt Jahr für Jahr BAYER rund drei Millionen Tonnen an Treibhausgasen aus. Trotzdem darf er sich auf der #COP30 zusammen mit anderen Agro-Riesen als „Teil der Lösung" präsentieren. Die CBG kritisierte das am 14.11. beim Klimastreik.
www.cbgnetwork.org/cbg-beim-kli...
www.cbgnetwork.org/cbg-beim-kli...
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The BAYER corporation emits around three million tonnes of greenhouse gases every year. Nevertheless, it is allowed to present itself as "part of the solution" at the #COP30 together with other agro-giants. The @cbg-network.bsky.social criticised this at the climate strike on 14 November.
GeneWatch UK has a new briefing on the implications of new #GMO (gene-edited) plants, animals and micro-organisms for biosecurity. It concludes that the deregulation of new GMOs poses a major threat. genewatch.org/uploads/f03c...
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
GeneWatch UK has a new briefing on the implications of new #GMO (gene-edited) plants, animals and micro-organisms for biosecurity. It concludes that the deregulation of new GMOs poses a major threat. genewatch.org/uploads/f03c...
“What’s happening in Belém is not a climate conference but a hostage negotiation over the future of the planet where those holding the detonators – the soy barons, the beef cartels, the pesticide peddlers – are seated at the table as honest brokers,” said @rajpatel.org #COP30
More fox-guarding-henhouse climate news: > 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
“What’s happening in Belém is not a climate conference but a hostage negotiation over the future of the planet where those holding the detonators – the soy barons, the beef cartels, the pesticide peddlers – are seated at the table as honest brokers,” said @rajpatel.org #COP30
“Expulsion by suffocation”: how (mostly #GMO) soy expansion and herbicide use are displacing Amazonian communities. Study argues #glyphosate use produces a slow form of chemical violence that suffocates people, ecosystems, and ways of life. theconversation.com/expulsion-by...
“Expulsion by suffocation”: how soy expansion and herbicide use are displacing Amazonian communities
A study argues that the use of glyphosate produces a slow form of chemical violence that suffocates people, ecosystems and ways of life. This violence forces riverside communities to leave and makes w...
theconversation.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Expulsion by suffocation”: how (mostly #GMO) soy expansion and herbicide use are displacing Amazonian communities. Study argues #glyphosate use produces a slow form of chemical violence that suffocates people, ecosystems, and ways of life. theconversation.com/expulsion-by...
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And, for the record, Professor at Johns Hopkins in the history of science and medicine, just sayin
James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him. Former Cold Spring Harbor lab writer @nccomfort.bsky.social on how James Watson became a genetic determinist and eventually overtly racist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
And, for the record, Professor at Johns Hopkins in the history of science and medicine, just sayin
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"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him. Former Cold Spring Harbor lab writer @nccomfort.bsky.social on how James Watson became a genetic determinist and eventually overtly racist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him. Former Cold Spring Harbor lab writer @nccomfort.bsky.social on how James Watson became a genetic determinist and eventually overtly racist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
The BAYER corporation emits around three million tonnes of greenhouse gases every year. Nevertheless, it is allowed to present itself as "part of the solution" at the #COP30 together with other agro-giants. The @cbg-network.bsky.social criticised this at the climate strike on 14 November.
Der BAYER-Konzern stößt Jahr für Jahr BAYER rund drei Millionen Tonnen an Treibhausgasen aus. Trotzdem darf er sich auf der #COP30 zusammen mit anderen Agro-Riesen als „Teil der Lösung" präsentieren. Die CBG kritisierte das am 14.11. beim Klimastreik.
www.cbgnetwork.org/cbg-beim-kli...
www.cbgnetwork.org/cbg-beim-kli...
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The BAYER corporation emits around three million tonnes of greenhouse gases every year. Nevertheless, it is allowed to present itself as "part of the solution" at the #COP30 together with other agro-giants. The @cbg-network.bsky.social criticised this at the climate strike on 14 November.
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
Glenn Davis Stone, PhD, author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, discusses the legend and unintended consequences of the Green Revolution.
Did you know that the “Green Revolution” is a cultural narrative that is rarely questioned? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Glenn Dav...
exchange.prx.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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
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Does new #geneticengineering simply do what breeding and evolution have always done?
A new scientific publication clearly shows that it is not that simple – there are fundamental differences!
www.testbiotech.org/en/news/new-...
A new scientific publication clearly shows that it is not that simple – there are fundamental differences!
www.testbiotech.org/en/news/new-...
November 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Does new #geneticengineering simply do what breeding and evolution have always done?
A new scientific publication clearly shows that it is not that simple – there are fundamental differences!
www.testbiotech.org/en/news/new-...
A new scientific publication clearly shows that it is not that simple – there are fundamental differences!
www.testbiotech.org/en/news/new-...
History has shown us this pattern before. Tobacco companies once sought legal shields when the evidence turned against them. Opioid manufacturers, asbestos producers—the list goes on! They don't want their experts cross-examined or internal documents disclosed. nomoreglyphosate.nz/glyphosate-i...
Glyphosate Immunity Fails in Missouri — A Warning for NZ
Bayer’s bid for glyphosate immunity failed in Missouri. What does that mean for New Zealand’s residue limits, regulators, and public health?
nomoreglyphosate.nz
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
History has shown us this pattern before. Tobacco companies once sought legal shields when the evidence turned against them. Opioid manufacturers, asbestos producers—the list goes on! They don't want their experts cross-examined or internal documents disclosed. nomoreglyphosate.nz/glyphosate-i...