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#GMOCorn & #Glyphosate: New evidence for precaution from Mexican scientists

March 4, 2025

"Most #corn grown in the U.S. is #GeneticallyModified to tolerate the spraying of #glyphosate-based herbicides. These #herbicides are linked to cancer, endocrine disruption and other health concerns.

"#Mexico banned genetically modified (#GM) corn from use in tortillas in 2023. The #US challenged the policy as an unfair trade practice, claiming Mexico’s precautionary policies were not based on science. In response, Mexico’s national science agency compiled one of the most comprehensive and thorough reviews to date of current scientific evidence showing #HealthRisks associated with production and consumption of the most widely grown crop in the U.S.

"In this webinar, the former director of Mexico’s National Council for Humanities, Science and Technology and the agency’s lead researcher on the topic presented Mexico’s recently released scientific review document. The evidence draws on recent literature to make the case that there are unacceptable health risks from GM corn and glyphosate for Mexican people who consume large quantities of minimally processed corn in food products such as tortillas.

"Dr. #ElenaÁlvarezBuylla, who directed the national science agency for six years, outlined the research carried out to underpin Mexico’s 2023 decree to restrict the use of GM corn in tortillas and other minimally processed corn products, and to phase out the use of glyphosate.

"Erica Hagman Aguilar presented the key findings from the well-referenced 200-page science dossier, which was recently translated into English.

"This webinar was moderated by researcher and writer Timothy A. Wise.

"The discussion was co-hosted with #USRightToKnow, a nonprofit public health research group. It was presented with simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation. "

Learn more / watch [videos available in both English and Spanish]:
https://www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars/96960

#EPAFail #FoodWaterWatch #Glyphosate #Bayer #ToxicPesticides #Monocrops #Monocrap #BigAg #BigChem #Corruption #Poison #Crapitalism #CapitalismKills #RoundUpKills #USPol #WorldPol

散歩慧素 Dec 4

#English #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Food #Soup #Campbells #Bioengineered #GeneticallyModified #Compare
Why is some of their soup Bioengineered/Genetically Modified and others not?

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Nov 7

“Their work opened the door to the discovery of disease-causing #genetic #mutations, the design of #geneticallymodified crops, the tantalizing and terrifying new #gene-splicing technology of #CRISPRCas-9, and more.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

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James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. He wrote a celebrated memoir and later ignited an uproar with racist views.

The New York Times

Bryan C Jones May 18, 2025

#Food #Agriculture #BigAg #Farming #GeneticallyModified #Warfare #Control #Liberty #Justice #Equality
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Food as A Weapon - The Pyramid Of Power

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Canadian Association For Food Studies Apr 1, 2025

Genetically Modified Crops

What narratives around genetically modified crops persist? What is the role of the state in pro-biotech frames? What tools can we employ to explore marginalized perspectives?

Examine the open access scholarship on genetically modified crops!

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#Grow your understanding of #Food
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#GMO #Biotech #GeneticallyModified #GreenRevolution #InVitroMeat #Ecofeminism #ReadingList

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DoomsdaysCW Jan 14, 2025

From 2010: #Navajo Commercial Farm Using #GeneticallyModified Seeds, Despite Global Protests

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, June 16, 2010

"While #IndigenousPeoples protest #Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds around the world, the Navajo Nation’s commercial farm, #NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustries, continues to use these seeds for commercial crops.

"Haitian farmers are now burning donated Monsanto seeds. In India, thousands of farmers committed suicide after switching from traditional seeds to genetically modified seeds. In Chiapas, Mayan farmers have refused to use the seeds which damaged heritage seed stock. Cross pollination from genetically modified seeds can endanger crops from ancient seed stock in the region.

"#Navajos have long planted century-old corn using traditional #DryFarming. Navajos relied on the stars to know when to plant and sometimes planted in spirals, according to Navajo elders in Rock Point, Arizona.

[...]

"However today the Navajo commercial farm boasts on its website that it plants genetic #HybridCorn seed purchased from '#PioneerSeed Company, #Syngenta Inc., and Monsanto companies." The commercial farm, NAPI, is located on the Navajo Nation near Farmington, N.M., and grows commercial food crops, including corn for potato chips, along with potatoes, wheat and other crops.

"Around the world, #Monsanto and genetically modified seeds have meant death for Indigenous Peoples and their crops."

[...]

"The area of northwest #NewMexico has been known as a 'US Sacrifice Area,' since the 1970s. It is the Navajo people who
have been sacrificed, by way of the US government working in collusion with #corporations and the elected Navajo Nation government.

"While #NAPI continues to use genetically modified seeds on its commercial farm, NAPI also has a #RaytheonMissile manufacturing plant located on the commercial farm where the crops are grown, a fact many would like kept secret. The fact that the Raytheon Missile factory is located on the Navajo farm was censored by Indian Country Today in 2006. At that time, Cuba was expressing interest in purchasing food products from NAPI and Indian Country Today editors demanded
that no research be done on Raytheon's missile plant at the farm or any possible pollutants discharged from Raytheon."

Navajo Commercial Farm Using Genetically Modified Seeds, Despite Global Protests

Censored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.

Canadian Association For Food Studies Oct 1, 2024

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Wesley Tourangeau

#GeneticModification #GeneticallyModified #GMO #CanAg #Agriculture #Biotechnology #Canada

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/208

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Canadian Association For Food Studies Jul 15, 2024

Happy Tenth Birthday Canadian Food Studies!

#HappyBirthday #TenYearsOld

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Wesley Tourangeau

#GMO #Discourse #Agriculture #Canada #Biotech #GeneticallyModified #PowerRelations

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
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https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/208

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🪬🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻♓🧿Apr 4, 2024

‘A new beginning’: US man who received pig kidney transplant returns home

> Scientists at the hospital partnered with biotechnology company eGenesis to genetically edit the kidney for transplant, a multi-year process that removed harmful pig genes from the organ and inactivated porcine retroviruses that could potentially cause infection.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/pig-kidney-transplant

#biotech #medicine #geneticModification #geneEditing #geneticallyModified #gm #health #renalFailure #kidneyFailure #kidney

‘A new beginning’: US man who received pig kidney transplant returns home

Richard Slayman was discharged from Massachusetts hospital on Wednesday after pioneering surgery

The Guardian

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Mar 25, 2024

#Mexico is waiting for the #US to provide evidence that shows imported #geneticallymodified #corn is safe for human consumption. "In a written submission to a panel of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Mexico, the top buyer of U.S. corn, argued that science proves GM corn and the #herbicide #glyphosate are harmful to human health and its native varieties, and that its decree to ban GM corn for human consumption is within its right," reports Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/mexico-waiting-us-proof-that-gm-corn-safe-its-people-deputy-ag-minister-says-2024-03-07/