17/November/20

 

Speaking during the Bayer Future of Farming online conference, Liam Condon, president of crop science at Bayer, said the company is lobbying "very strongly" to change the EU's GMO regulations to exempt gene editing, according to an article in the Farmers Guardian. But he's making false claims. GMWatch

 

 

As US president-elect Joe Biden weighs agriculture secretary candidates to steer America’s food and farming policies, an important question looms: will his pick reflect his ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make agriculture more sustainable and socially just? Or will he bow to pressure from agribusiness and corporate interests, and choose a conservative throwback like former North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp, who voted with Trump nearly 70 percent of the time, and who Trump nearly picked for the job in 2017? Heitkamp’s record reveals a staunch defender of yesterday’s status quo, of industrial agribusiness and fossil fuels, rather than the change that’s needed for our times. FoodTank