04/April/22

 

The Indian government has exempted certain types of gene-edited plants from the country's genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations. The change in rules, notified last Wednesday, will allow gene-edited plants without any “foreign” genes to be subjected to a weaker regulatory process than the one applied to other types of GMOs. The changes will exempt two categories of gene-edited products — in which genes are either disrupted to make them non-functional or altered to change the function of their protein product but not where a gene from another organism has been deliberately inserted — from being treated as GMOs. GMWatch condemns the move as unscientific, irresponsible, and based on assumptions that could turn out to be false. GMWatch

 

 

Ag Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has announced an investment of up to $750,000 for the nonprofit SeedChange to achieve an “enhanced Canadian seed system that is equipped to support the development and long-term competitiveness of farmer-bred grain and vegetable varieties for organic and climate-resilient farming". The project aims to implement demonstration sites across the country to evaluate and showcase farmer-bred and/or Canadian-grown varieties that thrive in organic and climate-resilient farming conditions. Germination

 

British Columbia govt approves glyphosate spraying of First Nation territories (video) 

 

The government of British Columbia has approved a plan for the forestry industry to spray glyphosate across the forests of six First Nation territories. The spraying is aimed at killing berries, hellebores, mushrooms – and many other plants. Thousands of people have asked the government to pause the plan and consult with First Nations, but the government has refused. @huminbeen on Twitter

 

 

Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky virus research in both the US and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a Vanity Fair investigation shows how an organisation dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one. [GMW: This article contains some remarkable revelations, including about the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funded risky coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, as well as about Kristian Andersen, author of the now infamous paper, "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2", which dismissed the lab origin theory of SARS-CoV-2. This article is well worth reading in full.] Vanity Fair

 

 

Katherine Eban, author of the Vanity Fair article on COVID origins (see above item), talks about her findings in an interview. She tells how the US NIH never seemed interested in investigating the origins of SARS-CoV-2 but instead appears to have set out to construct a narrative of zoonosis (natural spillover of the virus from animals to humans) that excluded any discussion of the lab leak theory. The Hill