Aug 29, 2016 | Featured, GMOs, Monsanto & Glyphosate, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News
Originally published by Chinadialogue: A US national security panel this week cleared a deal proposed by state-owned Chinese company ChemChina to acquire Syngenta, the Switzerland-based seed and biotechnology agribusiness. At US$43 billion (287 billion yuan), it will...
Aug 29, 2016 | Featured, GMOs, Social Media News
TimesColonist.com reports that City councillors have unanimously agreed to a motion last week calling for a set of rules to restrict genetically modified plants in B.C. and Canada. Canadians worried about the potential effects include Victoria councillors Ben Isitt...
Aug 22, 2016 | Featured, Social Media News
Originally published by IndependentScienceNews.org: By Steven M. Druker, J.D. Although it purports to be based on solid science and the open flow of information on which science depends, the massive venture to reconfigure the genetic core of the world’s food supply...
Jul 14, 2016 | Featured, GMOs, Social Media News
UPDATE (7/14/2016): Activists delay planned release of GM mosquitoes via Cayman News Service: A group of local activists in West Bay who are opposed to the planned release of genetically modified mosquitoes in the district have managed to delay the start of the...
Apr 1, 2016 | all other, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Press Releases, Pressroom, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Biotech Tree Company ArborGen Settles with Defrauded Employees Company still hopes to develop GE eucalyptus trees for US plantations New York (31 March 2016) — After being found guilty late last year of using “trickery and deceit” to defraud...