The farmer Paul François, who has been involved in a protracted and high-profile legal battle with Monsanto, was brutally attacked at his home in Bernac, a village in Charente in southwestern France, on 30 January. According to reports, the 59-year-old farmer was attacked by three hooded men after he put his car in the garage. Having seized him, they tied his legs and arms with electric cables and wrapped a scarf around his neck, which they shut in the rear door of his vehicle. Once they had Paul François immobilised, the attackers threatened him with a knife to his throat and attempted to make him swallow a liquid, while telling him, “We are tired of hearing you and seeing your face on TV.” In 2004 he was poisoned by Monsanto’s soon-to-be-banned Lasso herbicide; the impacts on his health have been severe. GMWatch

 

 

A teach-in and campaign planning day has been organised by Stop Designer Babies (SDB), Alliance for Humane Biotechnology (USA), Gen-ethisches Netzwerk (Germany), and GeneEthics (Australia): 10am-5pm, March 4, 2023, Somers Town Living Centre, Ossulton St, London NW1 and online. FREE – register here. Come along to discuss the urgent need for action to stop the harsh realities of modern eugenics. Designer babies are not science fiction any more – the first genetically modified children were announced in 2018. Despite global outrage, the British government is now trying to overturn the legal ban on human genetic modification (HGM) this year. For more information, see this. GMWatch

 

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