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The Genetic Engineering Network
Est Jan 1997 to fight GMO's
Joined September 2013
Heard rumours about Bayer/Monsanto stepping out of #glyphosate? Don't celebrate too soon. The company just joined the @EU_Commission to defend the weedkiller in the EU court. We challenge governments and chemical giants. Support us: https://t.co/EM46PM7KYi
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Parliament’s conservative negotiator is backing down on patents. ‘The Parliament has decided by a large majority that GMO plants (NGT 1) shouldn’t be patentable. Patents would lead to legal uncertainty, high costs & monopolistic structures and consequently to less seed diversity’
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JOIN THE NZ-WIDE PROTEST TO STOP THE GENE TECH BILL - Saturday 29 Nov. This is bigger than New Zealand. What happens here sets the tone for the rest of the world. The Gene Tech Bill is being forced through quietly, and if it passes, a global precedent is set - that powerful
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"I think the reason they did it is because in advance of possible GE plantings in New Zealand." — Noel Josephson, Chair of Organics Aotearoa NZ @OANZ Is glyphosate policy being shaped by a GE agenda no one’s admitting to? 🎥 Watch here: https://t.co/vp0GFxM8v2 🔗 Say no to
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📅 13 Nov 2025 📍#BertaCáceres 🌍 International Alliance Against Agrotoxics and For Life #AgrotoxicsKILL #StopAgrotoxics ✊🏾 Agroecology & Popular Resistance in the Construction of Free and Healthy Territories #AgroecologyNurturesLIFE
@via_campesina @stedile_mst @BerthaZuniga1
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The Gene Tech Bill = more failed GMOs in our fields and food. Professor Jack Heinemann explains how the gene tech bill would allow for more failed GMOs into the environment, including the ones we didn't intend to make, or even knew we made. Because gene tech bill would permit
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The Rajasthan High Court issued a blanket ban on the manufacture, sale, or import of Genetically Modified (GM) foods until the Central Government frames safety regulations. The Court found it "astonishing" that despite the global health concerns, the Centre has failed for two
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Great news! Oxitec withdrew the commercial release application for millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes across Northern Australia!! Public protest wins! https://t.co/9ir0dSj6O9 Non-GMO wolbachia mozzies already suppress dengue transmission ~100%!
worldmosquitoprogram.org
How the World Mosquito Program is protecting Australian communities from dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and yellow fever through the innovative use of Wolbachia mosquitoes.
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Modern science has laden food with poison and toxins, and that too knowing how harmful it is for humans as well as environment.
Buy organic food whenever you can in order to avoid pesticides and toxins linked to diseases like cancer, Parkinson's and other chronic diseases. You cannot wash off systemic pesticides because they are penetrating deep into the plants 👇
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@GEHonesty are organising nationwide rally’s to protest the Gene Technology Bill and the implications it has for NZ. Sat 29 November, 12-2pm at a location near you.
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Check out our latest Review—on GLOBAL RESISTANCE to GMOs, taking in @BillGates-funded GMO mozzies being terminated in Burkina Faso, a major victory in the US courts for #GMO labelling, more BIG court victories in India and South Africa, and so much more! https://t.co/O7tHSdSuIz
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African faith leaders demand reparations from Gates Foundation over industrial farming harm https://t.co/PKuiTYgeT5
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Please listen to this brilliant speech from @DeborahMurtagh4 yesterday at the Gene Tech Rally on the steps of parliament.
🌏 I spoke at Parliament grounds yesterday against the Gene Tech Bill— because the people’s voice still matters. They call it innovation. But across the world, it’s becoming clear this isn’t innovation, it’s corporate capture. The Gene Technology Bill in New Zealand is a test
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They say there's “nothing to hide.” So why is it so hard to find clear information on GMO precision-bred field trials taking place in England? Check out our new PBO Field Trial Tracker - a clear, accessible record of England’s ongoing GM crop experiments https://t.co/XEtTsV1pc9
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They’ve stripped away the very principles that keep New Zealanders safe. The Gene Tech Bill removes the foundations that protects our health, environment and food. These aren’t optional “nice to haves" - they’re the guardrails that stop powerful interests from rewriting the
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What has happened to @icarindia? How come junk varieties are being passed as breakthroughs? First, the junk GM mustard and now the false claims behind two gene-edited rice varieties? Can't hide behind 'anti development' tag to escape public scrutiny. https://t.co/GnAwAeXXsv
downtoearth.org.in
Raising fresh questions about the performance of the two gene-edited rice varieties released by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, a new ana
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Who really wins from the Gene Tech Bill? 💵 Is it consumers? Farmers? Or someone else entirely? Look closer at the politicians and “experts” pushing it - you’ll start to see the same names, the same circles, and the same conflicts of interest. How can we call it independent
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A message for Winston Peters. 📢 @winstonpeters said his party @nzfirst wouldn’t back the Gene Technology Bill without proper safeguards in place. Right now, there aren’t any safeguards: ❌ No precautionary principle. ❌ No ethics. ❌ No protection for GE-free farmers or
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Do watch this 20min intro to Debal Deb's work to save traditional rice varieties, beautifully shot by Jason Taylor
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The Gene Technology Bill: 9 Reasons New Zealanders Are Saying NO Nearly 14,500 people made submissions on the Gene Technology Bill. 97% said NO. And yet, the Health Select Committee has recommended the Bill be passed. So what exactly is wrong with it? Why are so many New
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