19/October/20

 

Up to 60 percent of people worldwide are worried the food they eat will harm them in the next two years, according to a poll. GM food is seen as a high risk with 48 percent of people worldwide saying they think these foods will mostly harm people during the next 20 years. Food Safety News; comment by GMWatch

 

 

ENSSER (the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility) has released the video recording of its round table discussion on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Speakers are Dr Michael Antoniou, Prof Ignacio Chapela and Prof Giuseppe Longo. Dr Antoniou's talk comes first and is titled: “SARS-CoV-2: natural original or laboratory creation? Does it matter?” ENSSER

 

 

Dr Michael Antoniou is extensively interviewed in English in this Italian documentary on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, released this summer. Paolo Barnard

 

 

Farmers facing one of their toughest years in recent memory have received little comfort this week from a usually reliable ally: the Conservative party. Their pleas to the government to enshrine in law a commitment to the UK’s high standards of food safety and animal welfare were ignored. In a long and impassioned debate in the House of Commons, amendments to the agriculture bill that had almost universal backing from farming leaders were defeated, steamrollered under the government’s 80-strong majority. The Guardian

 

 

Send a message to Governor Andrew Cuomo urging him to sign Bill A.732-B/S.6502, to prohibit the use of toxic herbicide glyphosate on New York State property. GMO Free USA

 

 

With the pandemic leaving so many families uncertain about their next meal, the Nobel Peace Prize award to the United Nations’ World Food Programme is timely. COVID-19 has plunged millions around the world into poverty; global hunger is likely to double. But let’s be clear: We’ll never be truly food secure without radically transforming our food systems. Agroecology goes beyond tackling the incidence of hunger to uproot its structural causes. Thomson Reuters News Foundation