05/October/21

 

Geoffrey Lean, Britain’s longest-serving environmental correspondent, has written extensively and critically about genetically engineered crops in different publications. In a new article on the Westminster government's plans to deregulate gene editing, he makes many excellent points. Unusually among mainstream media journalists, Lean has engaged with some of the actual research findings and development problems demonstrating that – contrary to all the hype – gene editing is neither precise nor predictable. GMWatch comment on article in the Daily Mail

 

 

Have you heard how GMO crops and record amounts of pesticides have transformed Brazil into an agricultural powerhouse? It's not just an ecological catastrophe. An estimated 19 million Brazilians have gone hungry since the start of the pandemic. According to a Brazilian citizen quoted in an article in the Guardian: “Some people are eating bones. Others have nothing to eat at all.” Last week, a top Venezuelan university said nearly 77% of citizens there lived in extreme poverty. GMWatch on Twitter @GMWatch