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Countering the propaganda of the biotech industry. 🐘 https://t.co/JYMrD1ISJy. 🦋💙 https://t.co/oi3HcN0miI
Joined August 2009
A key reason gene editing shouldn't be deregulated is all the hype about its precision & accuracy is BS. Even Harvard's George Church calls #CRISPR "a blunt axe". He says, "it's called editing, I think it's really genome vandalism." Yet the Govt thinks it needs no safety checks!.
@eben_kirksey "#CRISPR can persist in cells for weeks, bouncing around the chromosomes, producing damage to DNA over and over again every time it finds a near match to the intended target"—@eben_kirksey on how the 'gene editing' metaphor hides the messy cellular reality
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Bill Gates calls #GMOs "magic seeds". They must indeed be magic if all the bread & corn he's ever eaten was GMO🧙♂️🪄🌽🧬. Gates was born in 1955 and no #GMO crops reached the US market till the 1990s. And there is still no GMO wheat on the US market to this day!🧙♂️🪄🍞✨.
Every piece of bread I’ve ever eaten is from genetically modified wheat, every piece of corn I’ve eaten is G.M.O - Bill Gates
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The mainstream media published no concerns about Daszak’s massive financial conflict of interest, never mind that he was a long-term friend & collaborator, as well as a funder, of Shi Zhengli’s lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology—or that he had a track record of false claims!.
Daszak forced to step down as lead investigator into pandemic origins Scientist who branded the lab leak hypothesis a conspiracy theory finally admits (massive!) conflicts of interest. But why did it take so long?
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Mexico's President will ban #GMO corn in the coming days The prohibition of transgenic corn and #glyphosate should be followed by 80 other "highly dangerous" pesticides.
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Peasant farmers in Honduras have won a resounding victory. The Honduran Supreme Court of Justice has unanimously declared the '#Monsanto Law', which made it illegal to save, give away, or exchange #seeds, totally unconstitutional. Well done, ANAFAE!
Without seeds, there can be no food, and without food, no people. After a ten-year fight, the peasant farmers of Honduras have achieved a resounding victory for life and food sovereignty.
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Bayer ordered to pay $332 million in Roundup cancer trial, in its third trial loss this month! The latest award includes $325 million in punitive damages. #Monsanto #glyphosate
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Switzerland to vote on pesticide ban. Already one in six farms is certified organic and the number is growing.
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Bayer’s #Monsanto To Pay More Than $1.5 Billion Over Claims Roundup Caused Cancer. @Bayer loses fourth case in a row. Its strategy of only fighting the cases it thinks it can win is now falling apart, as it keeps losing big time! #glyphosate
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Bayer ordered to pay $175 million in latest #Roundup cancer trial. $150 million of this was awarded in punitive damages. @Bayer lost another Roundup cancer case just a week ago. #glyphosate
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Brighton scientists have slammed the council’s plans to reintroduce #glyphosate. “The whole of Paris is managed without glyphosate,” Professor @DaveGoulson said. “If Paris can manage without [pesticides], Brighton certainly can.”
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Bill Gates finances lobby for "new GMOs" in Europe Aim is to derail EU rules on GMOs
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Plea for Ontario’s forests: We must stop #glyphosate use. More than a chemical herbicide; it’s a silent threat to our forests, our food chain and our future. The scientific evidence behind glyphosate’s dangers is overwhelming—and infuriating.
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Peru extends #GMO moratorium, Mexico phases out #glyphosate and GMO maize in food, disallows GMO maize cultivation
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Indigenous Mayan beekeeper awarded #GoldmanPrize for halting Monsanto's planting of #GMO soy in Mexico #glyphosate
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India was incapable of feeding itself until Norman Borlaug saved the starving with his Green Revolution. He saved a billion lives, right? . Wrong. "The new histories lead us to revise the number of lives saved from a billion to a lower number. Like zero."
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Swiss🇨🇭 voters to cast ballots on pesticide-free farming amid climate of fear Backers of crackdown on #pesticides get police protection following death threats
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Environmentalists Owe an Enormous Debt to Julian Assange. A slew of cables Assange published revealed US officials applying financial, diplomatic, and frequently military pressure on behalf of #Monsanto and other biotech corporations. via @NatCounterPunch
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Federal Court Holds #Glyphosate Registration Unlawful, Cites Cancer Risks, Endangered Species Risks "Today is a monumental victory for farmworkers, wildlife, and the public"
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The French journalist on a months’ long trolling spree against critics of #glyphosate has now suspended her Twitter account, following revelations about her involvement in industry lobby meetings.
@tristanwaleckx It was clear @emma_ducros had a hidden conflict of interest. She attacked without facts and with malice, following the playbook of industry.
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Chemical giant @Bayer reports heavy drop in profit amid ongoing Roundup cancer lawsuits. The group reported a net loss of $4.45 billion in the third quarter. A heavy drop in sales of its key #glyphosate-based weedkillers weighed particularly heavily.
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Bayer paid billions more for #Monsanto than Bayer itself is now worth. Just think about that. .
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Lab-grown meat is one of the worst technology failures of 2023, according to MIT Technology Review's annual list of the worst in tech. Exhibit A: billion dollar start-up Upside Foods who are using lots of labor, plastic, and energy to make hardly any meat!
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Silent Spring was attacked primarily by chemical companies, which tried to discredit Carson’s mental acuity, writing & research in vicious advertising campaigns. These corporations tried to portray her as hysterical and to discredit the science on which Silent Spring was based.
Today, we celebrate the anniversary of #SilentSpring’s publication, on September 27, 1962. It is also a day to reflect upon the legacy of #RachelCarson, a woman scientist, writer, and environmental activist who was, in many ways, ahead of her time.
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Proven: #Glyphosate herbicides change gene function and cause DNA damage Bombshell finding could end EU authorization of glyphosate
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Leukemia data made publicly available for international study showing #glyphosate & glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) cause leukemia in rats at a young age & at low exposure doses. No leukemias observed in any of the rats not exposed to glyphosate or GBHs
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Mexico to Ban #Glyphosate, #GMO Corn—Presidential Decree Comes Despite Intense Pressure from Industry, U.S. Authorities Govt will also phase out GMO corn imports
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Global Pesticide Ban Is Only Way To Stop Us From a Health Epidemic Nightmare. Despite repeated scientific and environmental warnings, world leaders are sleepwalking into a pesticide-fueled nightmare, says #glyphosate-banning Minister of Agriculture.
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#Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies, study reveals Most widely used pesticide in history harms critical ability of bumblebee to regulate nest temperature.
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Journalist commissioned to ghostwrite articles defending #glyphosate and attacking @IARCWHO Articles appeared in media outlets worldwide under made-up author names and with fake biographies. (English language report)
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Gates' Unhinged Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed Gates & co are repackaging the dispossessive strategies of colonialism as ‘feeding the world’. (Article also here:
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Mexico's president refuses to endorse decree that fails to prohibit #glyphosate and #GMOs - wants to ban both by 2024
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This month Le Monde won a press award for their investigation into the worldwide war #Monsanto unleashed to save #glyphosate. Here’s Part 1 in English and Part 2
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Mexican organic farmers celebrate the ban on glyphosate "More than 300,000 organic producers in Mexico do not use #glyphosate in our crops. However we have been subjected to external contamination."
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France banned #pesticides in public spaces in 2017 and has embraced wildflowers, even encouraging citizens to sow seeds in pavement cracks and walls
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"Bye Bye Bayer! Ciao Monsanto!" Around 1500 demonstrators took part in yesterday's anti-@Bayer-#Monsanto protest in Lyon, France, where the company has its French HQ. And more #ByeByeBayer #CiaoMonsanto protests took place elsewhere in France
La manifestation lyonnaise contre Monsanto-Bayer emprunte les quais de Saône en direction du nord, du monde. #Lyon #Monsanto #ByeByeBayer #manifestation #Manifs5Mars
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After a 4-year legal battle, Monsanto (now owned by @Bayer) drops lawsuit against Mexico’s #GMO corn ban! Internal documents revealed during the trials in Mexico indicated that #Monsanto was aware of #glyphosate's cancer risks.
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Thailand's #glyphosate ban isn't just on domestic use, i.e. on Thai farms. It also places a zero-residue tolerance on imported food & feed products So it won't just protect farmworkers, rural residents and the environment, but the whole food supply chain.
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Industry study showing the neurotoxicity of #glyphosate was withheld from European authorities. It highlighted the possible damaging effects on brain development of prenatal exposure to glyphosate
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Will @Bayer settlement clean up #Monsanto's PCB contamination in Wales? Bayer needs to remediate #Monsanto's toxic legacy in the UK. @michaelsheen
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Insect Loss Stunting Fruit and Vegetable Production, Leading to More Than 400,000 Early Deaths a Year. Widespread use of #pesticides a key factor fuelling the downturn in pollinator populations. via @YaleE360
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Consumers associate plant-based with ‘natural’ & ‘healthy’: There’s a ‘disconnect’ between perception and reality Classic case: the Impossible Burger, not just ultra-processed but contains #GMO soya, #glyphosate residues & genetically engineered fake blood.
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Climate sermons from a super emitter: “When will the media realize that with Gates you have to follow the money?” — journalist @TimothyWSchwab
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Gates paid €1.3M to influence political decision-making in Europe in favour of deregulation of GM food so it goes onto European plates, w/out any biosafety, food safety or environmental checks. We’d have no freedom to avoid or even identify it cos it wouldn't have to be labelled.
His patronage of #fakemeat is but one manifestation of how Gates means to centralise control of global food in his own hands, powered by an unholy alliance of venture capital, science and technology institutions, and compliant states.
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Mexico quietly rejects application for #GMO corn imports Bayer says it’s evaluating its legal options. #glyohosate.
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Industry can't be trusted to self-regulate on safety. Example: The biotech firm Recombinetics claimed its gene editing of cattle was so precise "our animals are free of off-target events." And they had "all the scientific data" to prove it. But the FDA found out this was total BS
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@eben_kirksey "#CRISPR can persist in cells for weeks, bouncing around the chromosomes, producing damage to DNA over and over again every time it finds a near match to the intended target"—@eben_kirksey on how the 'gene editing' metaphor hides the messy cellular reality
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Argentina withdraws from long-term international study after it shows Argentina's rural areas, homes and people are all more contaminated by agrochemicals than any of the ten European countries participating in the study
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Leading molecular geneticist warns about the impact of #GMOs (including gene editing) and glyphosate His deep familiarity with gene editing makes him concerned about its deregulation. And his cutting-edge research makes him concerned about #glyphosate
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Kenya: Farmers Use Indigenous Seeds To Increase Food Production. “Indigenous seeds are drought-resistant . They can thrive in all seasons.” Indigenous seeds can also be stored and managed within the community
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Say no to #pesticides, yes to goats: Goats again being used to manage highly invasive and noxious plants. Goats are the most eco-friendly option, can get places contractors cannot easily reach, and goats also fertilize the area!
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Replacing animal products with ultra-processed poorly studied under-regulated #GMOs is NOT the solution to our factory farm & climate crisis! GMO heme has never been part of the human diet before and the #GMO soy is sprayed with high levels of #glyphosate
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“Clearly GM foods are unacceptably risky, deceptively promoted and obstructing genuine progress. The world will be much better off without them.” — Jane Goodall, born April 3, 1934🎈
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French tomato grower takes on #Monsanto over weedkiller "They presented #glyphosate as a miracle product. We didn't realise the effects it could have in the medium- and long-term. And now we're seeing them."
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France🇫🇷 bans pesticide use in more places, including private residences #pesticides #glyphosate.
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500 faith leaders from across #Africa sent a letter to the @gatesfoundation calling on it to end its damaging support for industrial agriculture, #pesticides etc. because it is doing more harm than good in Africa. The Gates Foundation didn’t even bother to reply! via @Afsafrica
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These two Canadian farmers used Roundup on their crops for decades. Then they were diagnosed with cancer. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma has been called ‘a farmer disease’. #glyphosate
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19 major chemical plants (Bayer, BASF, etc.) in France are pumping out pesticides so dangerous they're banned in Europe. They're manufactured for export to Brazil, Africa. And fruits or grains grown with these toxic chemicals may well end up being imported
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.@BugLundgren began studying #regenerativeagriculture when beekeepers asked for help because pesticides were killing their bees. But now @Bayer—one of the worst bee-killers☠️on the planet—is exploiting the looseness of the term "regenerative" in order to market their☠️products☣️.
This #PollinatorWeek, let’s remember that transitioning to #regenerativeagriculture practices is a powerful way to help pollinators thrive! . Learn more from @BugLundgren in this exclusive clip of #CommonGroundMovie, which will be coming to theaters soon! . #biodiversity
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German beekeeper wins lawsuit over #glyphosate contamination of his honey Agribiz outfit responsible has to pay beekeeper compensation for violating his property and an unlawful, negligent breach of their responsibilities.
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