It really is a case of old wine in new bottles.
And this is not lost on a coalition of 162 civil society, farmers and business organisations which has called on Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans to ensure that new genetic engineering techniques continue to be regulated in accordance with existing EU GMO standards.
The coalition argues that these new techniques can cause a range of unwanted genetic modifications that can result in the production of novel toxins or allergens or in the transfer of antibiotic resistance genes. The open letter adds that even intended modifications can result in traits which could raise food safety, environmental or animal welfare concerns.
Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food
Published: April 19, 2021
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved (documented in the recent report ‘Gates to a Global Empire‘ by Navdanya International), whether through buying up huge tracts of farmland, promoting a much-heralded (but failed) ‘green revolution’ for Africa, pushing biosynthetic food and new genetic engineering technologies or more generally facilitating the aims of the mega agrifood corporations.We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world.
By Susan Gonzalez
April 14, 2021
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Top row: Isabela Mares, Tisa Wenger; Bottom row: Robyn Creswell, Marisa Anne Bass
Four Yale faculty members are among a group of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded 2021 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Marisa Anne Bass, Robyn Creswell, Isabela Mares, and Tisa Wenger were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 3,000 applicants on the basis of their prior achievements and exceptional promise. Bass is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Art; Creswell is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature; Mares is a professor in the Department of Political Science; and Wenger is associate professor at Yale Divinity School with courtesy appointments in the American Studies program and the Department of Religious Studies.
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Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive externalised social, environmental and health costs.
Reliance on commodity monocropping for global markets, long supply chains and dependency on external inputs for cultivation make the food system vulnerable to shocks, whether resulting from public health scares, oil price spikes (the global food system is fossil-fuel dependent) or conflict and war. An increasing number of countries are recognising the need to respond by becoming more food self-sufficient, preferably by securing control over their own food and reducing supply chain lengths.
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