Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Note: An excellent complementary piece, from one of the IAASTD authors, is: The IAASTD report and some of its fallout – a personal note By Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, ETH Zurich, …
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Let the World Learn From Our Experience with GMOs
E. Ann Clark, University of Guelph, Canada E. Ann Clark is an Associate Professor in the department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She wrote this piece in response to a …
Continue readingFood is Different: Why we must get the WTO out of Agriculture
Over the last ten years however a rough consensus has emerged among a large number of family farm groups, academics, economists, trades unions and development organisations that trade liberalisation in the food sector (via the WTO and other free trade agreements) is achieving the precise opposite.
Continue readingWhat Is Nature Biotechnology Good For?
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson The case of Irina Ermakova Quite likely it surprised regular readers of Nature Biotechnology that for the September (2007) issue their favoured journal had invented a new article format specifically …
Continue readingThe Killing of the Countryside
Book Author: Graham Harvey Reviewed by Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) Visitors to Britain are always being asked to admire the “unspoiled countryside” of a particular region, but landscapes are more than just photo …
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The American Chestnut Foundation Bails as GE Chestnut Develops Growth and Fertility Problems and Fails to Resist the Blight
by Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project Late on Friday, December 8th, the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) announced they were withdrawing their support for the “Darling 58” (D58) genetically engineered American chestnut tree. After …
Continue readingPeter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million In Pentagon Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science
by Sam Husseini “Pandemics are like terrorist attacks: We know roughly where they originate and what’s responsible for them, but we don’t know exactly when the next one will happen. They need to be handled …
Continue readingEcoHealth Alliance Orchestrated Key Scientists’ Statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2
by Sainath Suryanarayanan of U.S. Right to Know Emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that a statement in The Lancet authored by 27 prominent public health scientists condemning “conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a …
Continue readingEngineered COVID-19-Infected Mouse Bites Researcher Amid ‘Explosion’ Of Risky Coronavirus Research
by Jonathan Latham, PhD University researchers genetically engineer a human pandemic virus. They inject the new virus into a laboratory mouse. The infected mouse then bites a researcher…..It is a plot worthy of a Hollywood …
Continue readingResearchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors, Concludes a New Paper
by Jonathan Latham, PhD The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the …
Continue readingExtensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory
by Jonathan Latham, PhD (Please note: this article contains disturbing content) The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has triggered the discovery of an apparently extensive chemical …
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A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement
Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today
Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA
The Real Cost of Fracking: How America’s Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food
Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA