Before the end of May, Defra will meet with stakeholders, including GMWatch, to confirm the next steps for the Genetic Technology Act. We will be given details of the package of statutory instruments (SIs) that will make the Act fully operational. These will include provisions for the production of genetically engineered precision bred (PBO) farm animals and plants in our food system and for the way that these foods can be marketed in England – and by extension the rest of the UK. Currently, however, there is no provision for labelling these precision bred foods. Given that the majority of citizens in this country, have expressed a preference to see these foods labelled, this is a terrible betrayal of public trust. Please use Beyond GM's e-platform to write to your MP or Westminster representative today. Help put this issue on their agenda ahead of the announcement of the SI package and ask them to ensure the upcoming changes in the Genetic Technology Act include a provision for mandatory labelling. Beyond GM

 

 

The governments of Canada and the US are using the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement (CUSMA) to challenge Mexico’s 2023 presidential decree, which bans the use of GM corn in traditional foods such as tortillas and aims to eventually replace GM corn in processed food. Mexico’s decree restricting GM corn uses mentions the path to food self-sufficiency, an agro-ecological transition, and food sovereignty. GMOs are prone to escape, sometimes with serious consequences, writes Lucy Sharratt of CBAN. Policymakers in Canada have talked about the goal of coexistence but the biotech industry’s goal is monopoly, and as canola in Canada shows, GMO contamination serves this agenda. But the biotechnology industry seeks control for profit and is implementing a winner-takes-all strategy, aided by Canadian government policies and by GM contamination, that is incompatible with this vision. Mexico’s defence of corn is standing in the way of the biotechnology industry’s agenda, in the global fight over the future of agriculture. Watershed Sentinel

 

 

First, the Bayer chairman behind the company's Monsanto acquisition was forced out. Now a key figure in ChemChina's acquisition of seeds and pesticides giant Syngenta for $43B is the focus of an anti-corruption probe, after Syngenta withdrew its $9B initial public offering (IPO) of shares. @GMWatch comment on Twitter/X on article in RepublicWorld.com

 

 

GMO lobbyist Stuart Smyth has been caught lying about Dr Arpad Pusztai's publication in The Lancet, which showed that GM potatoes had adverse effects on rats. @GMWatch on Twitter/X

 

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