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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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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…
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Food Service Company Aramark Rejects GE Salmon
Top food service company Aramark just announced its commitment not to sell genetically engineered (GE) salmon. The producer of the salmon, AquaBounty Technologies, announced plans to sell its fi…
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GMO Animals: From Lab to Factory Farm
Instead of altering the animal, we need to fix the farm. Instead of creating GMO pigs that are resistant to diseases, we should focus on the root cause of the problem: industrial agriculture and horr…
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Gene-edited animals could intensify the climate crisis
A new report from Friends of the Earth and Logos Environmental reveals that the use of gene editing in farm animals poses risks to human health, the environment and animal welfare.
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Genetically Engineered Animals: From Lab to Factory Farm
This report, provides a scientific overview of the concerns with genetically engineered food animal experiments that are underway, and reveals the risks to human health, the environment and animal wel…
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Shopper’s Guide to GMOs: Are You Ready For The New Wave of Genetic Engineering?
These GMOs by other names are still GMOs. Companies are rushing patented new genetic engineering technologies into food, cosmetics and supplements with no precaution and no transparency.
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Gene-Edited Organisms in Agriculture
The unexpected and unintended effects of all genetically engineered organisms, regardless of whether ‘traditional’ or gene-edited genetic engineering techniques have been used, have the potential…
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NEW REPORT: Gene Editing in Agriculture Poses New Risks to Health, Environment
On the heels on the European Court of Justice’s ruling requiring organisms developed using new genetic engineering techniques to undergo GMO risk assessments, and several new studies revealing “ge…
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Trump announces rollback of GMO, biotechnology regulations
This is just the latest of Trump’s attacks on sensible, science-based regulations, once again putting the interests of corporations ahead of the interests of our health and environment.