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Mexico’s Precaution on GM Corn Safety Is Justified

Food Tank. March 5, 2024. The U.S. and Canada essentially argue that if they have decided a genetically modified food is safe, then Mexico should agree. But research continues to find indicators of potential harm to humans from eating GM insect-resistant corn, and the science also continues to warn of health impacts from exposure to the herbicide glyphosate which is used in GM corn production.

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Corporate-Government “Tiger Team” Gutted GMO Regulations

Watershed Sentinel. November 2023. Media investigations in 2022 and 2023 uncovered a trail of documents showing that federal government departments worked directly with the biotechnology industry to design the new regulatory guidance for gene-edited GMOs, in a committee they called the “Tiger Team.”

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Brazil’s “Green Deserts”

Watershed Sentinel, October/November 2023. In May and June of this year, I was part of an international delegation to Brazil organized by the International Campaign to Stop GE Trees. We travelled around the states of Espirito Santo, Bahia, and Mato Grosso do Sul — epicentres of the production of eucalyptus trees destined to become pulp, paper, biofuels, and other products shipped around the world.

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New regulatory guidance sets up corporate self-regulation of GMOs

The Hill Times, Opinion. September 11, 2023. The emergence of new genetic engineering techniques for food and farming renewed the deregulation ambitions of the biotechnology industry. The federal government has responded quickly with a hands-off approach. However, the use of new genomic technologies in our food system, such as gene editing, demands strong regulatory oversight.

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Trading in Forest Stewardship?

CounterPunch. September 2022. The release of genetically engineered (GE or genetically modified) trees is closer than it has ever been. Ironically, it could be the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) that opens the door to the commercialization of GE trees.

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Will Forest Stewardship Include GE Trees?

Watershed Sentinel, October 2, 2022: The global threat of genetically engineered (GE) trees is closer than ever. Ironically, it could be the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) — the organization that describes itself as “the original pioneers of forest certification” and claims to “promote the responsible management of the world’s forests” — that may open the door to the commercialization of GE trees.

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Stop the shift to corporate self-regulation of GMOs

The Hill Times, September 2022: The Minister of Health recently allowed Health Canada to give up its role as independent regulator when it comes to the safety of many future genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) foods, and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food is contemplating a similar set of proposals on seeds from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

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Gene Drives – Engineering the Wild

Watershed Sentinel, Summer 2021: Designed to push new genes through entire populations in the wild, gene drive technology raises serious questions about monitoring, reversibility, and human control of nature

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