Supermarket lends voice to campaign opposed to deregulation of gene editing in the UK Leading supermarket chain, Co-op, has expressed caution over the UK government’s review into the future legislative approach to gene editing of crops and livestock in England.
The Consultation on the Regulation of Genetic Technologies was launched by the UK s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) on January 7 and will run until March 17, 2021.
EU legislation controlling the use of GMOs was retained in the UK at the end of the transition period, after December 31, 2020. This retained legislation requires that all GE organisms are classified as GMOs irrespective of whether they could be produced by traditional breeding methods.
More South Korean brands with products containing only trace amounts of genetically modified (GM) ingredients could be able to make ‘non-GMO’ label claims, as the country considers aligning its rules with international standards.
Monsanto owner Bayer and US officials pressured Mexico to drop glyphosate ban Details
Internal government emails show actions similar to those by Bayer and lobbyists to kill a proposed ban in Thailand in 2019
EXCERPT: “We’re seeing more and more how the pesticide industry uses the US government to aggressively push its agenda on the international stage and quash any attempt by people in other countries to take control of their food supply,” said Nathan Donley, a biologist with the CBD conservation group. -
Carey Gillam
[links to sources at this URL] Internal government emails show actions similar to those by Bayer and lobbyists to kill a proposed ban in Thailand in 2019
Bill Gates, Climate Warrior – and Super Emitter Details
Bill Gates has a new book out:
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. But some people are less than amused at having to take lessons on the climate crisis from a billionaire who, in the words of the ETC Group, “made a fortune skirting government regulations with monopolistic practices, and holds a significant financial stake in the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry.”
The following article by Tim Schwab makes clear just how extensive those fossil fuel investments are and how much they are at odds with Bill Gates’ claims. But at the same time as holding significant financial interests in fossil fuel extraction and fossil fuel dependent industries, quite apart from having a massive personal carbon footprint, Gates is also embracing large-scale planetary interventions via risky geoengineering.