26/February/21

 

An African faiths environmental institute is calling on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to stop funding green revolution technologies and genetically modified seeds for the continent, but instead support natural methods to help Africa achieve food sufficiency and protect its environments. In an open online letter that is also asking for signatures, the Southern Africa Faith Communities' Environment Institute said the foundation is fuelling hunger and poverty by funding farming methods that fail to protect small-scale farmers and the environment. National Catholic Reporter

 

 

The New York Times published on February 18 an enthusiastic article about a black-footed ferret, hailing it as “the first of any native, endangered animal species in North America to be cloned.” Grand claims for animal cloning go back to the birth of the first cloned sheep, in 1996. But the cloning industry is marred by an appalling series of failures and cruelty, writes Pete Shanks. Biopolitical Times; comment by GMWatch