27/August/20

 

A simple, user-friendly presentation will be held about the scientific evidence pointing to potential risks and dangers from gene-edited foods. There will be an opportunity to ask questions. 3pm British Summer Time, Wednesday 9 September 2020. Speakers: Dr Michael Antoniou – Molecular geneticist based at one of the major London universities; and Claire Robinson, MPhil – editor at GMWatch and co-author of the book GMO Myths and Truths 2018, 4th edition. Register here: https://www.allianceforfoodpurity.org.uk/webinars  Alliance for Food Purity

 

 

A new study confirms that milkweed loss is the key to plummeting monarch butterfly numbers. In other words, the GM Roundup Ready crops are responsible, rather than the competing hypothesis of increased mortality during fall migration. GM Roundup Ready crops entail spraying of glyphosate herbicide, which kills milkweed plants, the monarch larvae's only food. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

 

 

Unimpressed with the environmental assessment the US Food and Drug Association used to approve a new breed of genetically modified salmon destined for the American dinner table, a federal judge looks poised to rule in favour of environmental groups afraid of its potential to blunt wild salmon populations. At a hearing, US District Judge Vincent Chhabria said he’s concerned that AquaBounty, the biotech company behind the GMO salmon, might use the FDA’s finding of “no significant impact” to expand the program without realizing its full impact on local ecology. Courthouse News