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Miles de personas condenan el intento de EE.UU. y Canadá de obligar a los mexicanos a comer tortillas transgénicas
Mientras México responde hoy al fallo del panel de disputas comerciales de que sus restricciones al maíz transgénico violan el acuerdo comercial entre Estados Unidos, México y Canadá.
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Thousands Condemn U.S. and Canada Attempt to Force Mexicans to Eat GMO Tortillas
Mexico has ample cause for concern about the safety of GMO corn given the population’s large daily consumption of minimally processed corn products such as tortillas.
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Trade Dispute Ruling Undermines Mexico’s Food Sovereignty, and Authority to Protect Health, Environment from GMO Corn
A final ruling in the trade dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over GMO corn finds that Mexico failed to adhere to some steps required by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement.
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Genetically Engineered Salmon Production Ends as AquaBounty Shutters Last Facility
Following decades of controversy, widespread market rejection and legal and regulatory challenges, U.S.-based biotechnology and aquaculture company AquaBounty Technologies announced it will stop produ…
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Overturning Trump era Decision, Federal Court Rules in Favor of Regulating Genetically Engineered Organisms
In a precedential victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court ruled today that genetically engineered (GE) organisms must be regulated.
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High Levels of Genetically Engineered Toxins and Glyphosate in GMO Corn Pose Serious Health Risks in Mexico
Friends of the Earth U.S. submitted a brief describing significant new science on health risks of genetically engineered corn, which the U.S. failed to consider as part of its trade dispute with Mexic…
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Los altos niveles de toxinas transgénicas y glifosato en el maíz transgénico plantean graves riesgos para la salud en México
Amigos de la Tierra EE.UU. (FOE, por sus siglas en inglés) presentó un escrito describiendo nuevos datos científicos significativos sobre los riesgos para la salud del maíz transgénico que EE.UU…
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New Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes Could Threaten Soil Health
As companies push to commercialize genetically engineered (GE) soil microbes, a new report reveals risks and recommends policy action.
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Genetically Engineered Mosquito experiment in California’s Central Valley halted
Biotech corporation withdraws permit request in a win for agricultural communities threatened by risky insect mass release
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Banners to Bezos and Gates: Back Off of Biodiversity!
MONTREAL/TIOHTIÀ:KE/UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE KANIEN’KEHÁ:KA NATION – Climber-activists today dropped 80-foot banners reading, “Biodiversity versus Billionaires,” visible from Montreal’s Pa…