22/April/22

 

Big chemical and seed corporations want to push new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) onto the market, forcing genetically modified food onto our fields and plates without us knowing about it. Tell your national ministers and your Members of the European Parliament to keep new GMOs strictly regulated! Sign the petition now. Slow Food

 

 

American billionaires are bankrolling corporate control of African agriculture under the guise of “philanthropy". Watch Episode 3 of the film Rich Appetites to see why this is anything but charity. Episodes 1 and 2 deal with the failure of industrial agriculture and the commercialisation and privatisation of seeds. richappetitesfilm.com

 

 

From a distance, the theory of GMO golden rice offers elegant, even algebraic simplicity: If we add the thing that’s missing (Vitamin A) to the thing that people suffering from malnutrition eat every day (rice), then — presto! — deficiency solved! But in practice, it doesn’t work that way. Living Non-GMO, the blog of the Non-GMO Project, explains why in an accessible and readable article. Living Non-GMO

 

 

Beleaguered Bayer CEO Werner Baumann has clinched the support of two major investors, but shareholder concerns surrounding the German conglomerate’s executive payouts persist. Prominent proxy brawlers Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis have endorsed Bayer’s leadership but stopped short of blessing its “excessive” executive compensation plans. Fierce Pharma

 

 

Exposure to specific human-made chemicals is emerging as a big player in disease – and not necessarily our own environmental exposures but that of our parents and grandparents. A newly published study in rats links exposure to several environmental toxicants (hydrocarbon jet fuel, dioxin, the pesticides permethrin and methoxychlor, plastics, and the herbicides glyphosate and atrazine) with epigenetic (gene regulatory) changes that can be inherited and that promote certain specific diseases. The transgenerational disease observed was similar for all exposures and includes pathologies of the kidney, prostate, and testis, pubertal abnormalities, and obesity. Scientific Reports

 

 

AMPA, the primary metabolite of glyphosate, has been shown to be associated with DNA oxidative stress in children for the first time, in a new scientific article. No such association was found with glyphosate. Similar significant associations with DNA oxidative stress were shown for other pesticide metabolites – the pyrethroid metabolite 3-PBA and the chlorpyrifos metabolite TCPy. Environmental Research