The undersigned organisations and individuals support the existing strong international consensus against genetic modification of human beings (HGM*). We wish to express our great concern about and opposition to those scientific academies and others presently seeking to legalise HGM. HGM is medically unnecessary. Read more.
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Stop Designer Babies protests irresponsible summit plans to legalise Human Genetic Modification
The anti-eugenics activist group, Stop Designer Babies (SDB),(1) is protesting today outside the ‘International Summit’ on human genetic modification (HGM).(2) SDB and its international partners are pledged to defend international Human Rights treaties and legislation in 70 countries banning HGM, (3) which were created because of the ongoing experience of eugenics. Read more.
Fake Meat has a Real Problem
The fake meat industry, predicted to be worth $3 trillion, is being touted as an environmentally friendly and sustainable way to feed the world. In reality, however, the rise of fake meat and other animal foods is nothing more than an attempt to create global control over yet another food sector. Read more.
Cutting into Plant DNA only Compounds Problems
The CRISPR/Cas gene editing technique is not a panacea to make plants stronger. On the contrary, it will do great damage, warn Volkert Engelsman, entrepreneur and founder of organic and fair trade produce supplier Eosta, and Michel Haring, professor of plant physiology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), in an excellent article in the mainstream Dutch newspaper Trouw. Engelsman and Haring describe the technique as “biotech neocolonialism”. Read more.
For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest
The poplars may be the first genetically modified trees planted in the United States outside of a research trial or a commercial fruit orchard. Just as the introduction of the Flavr Savr tomato in 1994 introduced a new industry of genetically modified food crops, the tree planters on Monday hope to transform forestry. Read more.
The Digitalization of Agriculture: Big Tech’s Plan to Take Over the Food Supply
As I recently reported earlier this week, everything and anything related to digital computer technology these days is being labeled as “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), the new marketing buzzword for Big Tech to lure money from investors, so it should not surprise us that Big Tech is now attempting to apply AI to food production. Read more.
What is the Future of Food
If “you are what you eat,” as the old adage has it, then what does that make us? As consumers of heavily processed, chemically treated, GMO-infested gunk, we in the modern, developed world have “solved” the problem of hunger that plagued our forebears since time immemorial by handing our food sovereignty over to a handful of corporate conglomerates. Read more.
Fake Meat Fail: Sales Collapse at Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods As 20% of Staff Laid Off
The fake meat industry appears to be in a death-spiral as sales at plant-based ‘meat’ companies Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat have imploded. As Axios reports, “after years of hype, the tide is turning against the first generation of plant-based protein makers.” Read more.
Aqua Bounty to Stop Producing GM Salmon in Canada
In a major turn-around, the US company AquaBounty says it will stop producing its controversial genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. Read more.
Stop Oxitec’s Risky and Unnecessary GMO Mosquito Experiments from Reaching California
Here we go again. We must stop this foreign corporation from taking further advantage of our regulatory system to conduct risky GMO mosquito experiments in the U.S. that aren’t allowed on their home turf. Read more.