An extraordinary run down of Labour's criticisms of the "shoddy" Genetic Technology Act. A well-known KC reviewing the draft Bill told me there's no way to 'fix' it. Tweaks will only make it worse. It needs to be scrapped & completely rewritten. Will The Labour Party get the job done?

New government, new start, new intelligence or old Tory shallowness and tick boxes in new clothes. beyond-gm.org/the-genetic-te…

Just a reminder that Henry is avidly pro-GMO, can’t wait to see GMO fake foods on the UK market in the name of ‘sustainability’ (for which read ‘profit’ and ‘markets’). Why The Labour Party? Why? thegrocer.co.uk/health/dimbleb…

Henry has also set up his own investment firm to profit from it, as well as sitting on the board of a lab-grown dog food company!

As long as the government’s starting point is growth of new markets without constraint, it doesn’t much matter who is in power The Labour Party The result will always leave people & planet worse off. The starting point should always be what is necessary to sustain life.

Nice summary of A Bigger Conversation's Agroecological Intelligence report drawn from conversations with UK agroecological farmers. Technology for its own sake is a road to nowhere...

Powerful from our friends The Consumer Voice the EU consumer organisation. We need to raise consumer demands on the UK government as well.

The UK government describes Fourth Industrial Revolution as a fusion of technologies & a blurring of the lines between the physical, digital and biological worlds.Brigitte Nerlich offers her thoughts on a bio-hybrid world where fact meets fiction. abiggerconversation.org/bio-hybrid-rob…

Recycling is a poor third option in the waste pyramid. BEST: Reduce - don't make it at all SECOND: Reuse - never throw it away

Also, in discussion with the FDA, Impossible Foods admitted up to a quarter of the synthetically produced “heme” ingredient in its Impossible Burger was composed of 46 “unexpected” additional proteins, some of which are unidentified and none of which were assessed for safety!

This joker has made a career of hawking unwanted and potentially extremely dangerous GMO tech. Now the naive chumps at our worse-than-useless ⁦Food Standards Agency⁩ are in thrall to the false promises and food fakery! gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…

Our letter The Grocer responding to a poorly fact-checked piece of GMO propaganda which blamed the lack of gene edited food in the UK on retailer cowardice and consumer ignorance. To the authors we say: “Hey guys, the 1990s just called, they’d like their cliches back!”

Feeding seaweed to cows can cut methane emissions, says Swedish report. According to manufacturers, the daily feeding of red algae can reduce the methane emissions of meat animals by up to 90%. No need to engineer the cows or their feed! theguardian.com/environment/20…

Before the Genetic Technology Act was GMO (Deliberate Release) Regulation 2022. This removed restrictions on open field trials of gene edited crops. We warned at the time this meant English farms being used for GMO seed multiplication. Guess what…? foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2024/0…

Good question “Why would we put time, money and potential risk into making something glow for fun?” #GMOs Beyond GM GM Freeze knowablemagazine.org/content/articl…

Opinion: Let’s cut the crap on gene technology thespinoff.co.nz/science/29-08-…

This is an excellent article by our colleague Prof Jack Heinemann countering ongoing gene editing hype. It’s heartbreaking to see our friends in New Zealand experiencing the same government and biotech industry gaslighting we’ve been going through for the last several years.

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