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Memo from French embassy in the United States made clear to the French government that the US experience shows #GMO deregulation traps plant breeding and innovation in a patent thicket controlled by a few multinationals & others—and won't solve food and farming problems! https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20672
GMO/NGT: Memo from French Embassy in the United States ignored by the government

Memo reveals how GMO deregulation will trap plant breeding and innovation in a patent thicket controlled by a few multinationals and institutions – and won't solve food and farming problems. Report: Eric MEUNIER of Inf'OGM

Who Owns the Seed? The Corporate Takeover India’s Farmers Are Fighting. In India’s cotton-growing regions, the corporate control #GMO cotton enabled hurt farmers—deepening agrarian distress. The Seeds Bill 2025 risks extending that model across every crop. https://countercurrents.org/2026/06/who-owns-the-seed-the-corporate-takeover-indias-farmers-are-fighting/
Who Owns the Seed? The Corporate Takeover India’s Farmers Are Fighting | Countercurrents

On December 8, 2025, hundreds of thousands of farmers across India burned copies of the draft Seeds Bill 2025 outside their village offices. The date was not chosen randomly — it mirrored the mass…

Countercurrents
Important lab findings pass peer review: Synbio milk nutritionally inferior to cow’s milk and full of potential risks. Yet it was marketed as “identical to cow’s milk” and is still on sale from Walmart! https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/20673
Synbio milk nutritionally inferior to cow’s milk; contains 93 uncharacterised fungal metabolites and 236 fungal proteins

Important lab findings pass peer review. Report: Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews

In the UK, new #GMO (gene-edited) crops can now make their way onto supermarket shelves with no safety or environmental assessments, and no labelling and traceability in the supply chain. And new #GMO crops are seen as a stepping stone to gene-edited meat. https://theecologist.org/2026/may/29/meat-your-new-gene-edited-food
Meat your new gene edited food

Campaigners warn that meat from gene edited animals could soon be on sale in supermarkets across England.

The Ecologist
EU condemns #glyphosate use in Middle East war. Bayer must act now! The European Union has condemned the use of glyphosate and white phosphorus (Monsanto has been its sole US producer) as chemical weapons in southern Lebanon, where these chemicals been used to destroy farmland, and Syria. https://www.cbgnetwork.org/eu-geisselt-glyphosat-einsatz-im-nahost-krieg/
EU geißelt Glyphosat-Einsatz im Nahost-Krieg - Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren (CBG)

Jetzt muss BAYER handeln! Die Europäische Union hat die Verwendung des Herbizids Glyphosat und seines Vorprodukts Phosphor als Chemiewaffen im Südlibanon und Syrien verurteilt. „Der Einsatz chemischer Waffen durch irgendjemanden, irgendwo, zu…

Coordination gegen BAYER-Gefahren (CBG)
Our new Review has all the latest on New GMOs, including updates on the risks as well as the deregulation battles that are raging around the world — from the UK and the Euopean Union, to Chile, India and New Zealand. https://gmwatch.org/en/main-menu/news-menu-title/news-reviews/20671
Review 601: New GMOs

    This Review brings the latest updates on the threatened EU deregulation of new GMOs (EU DEREGULATION), along with news of the court case opposing the UK deregulation (UK DEREGULATION) and reports on pushes for DEREGULATION GLOBALLY. There’s also information on NEW

The Brazilian lawsuit comes after the retraction of a decades-old paper that Brazilian prosecutors say was used by regulatory agencies worldwide to allow the registration and sale of #glyphosate. They also cite studies showing glyphosate residues in drinking water pose a threat to human health.
Brazilian prosecutors are suing the federal government and its health agency to ban the use of #glyphosate. Prosecutors cite risks to human life, occupational health, and the workplace environment. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-24/brazil-prosecutors-sue-to-ban-top-selling-weed-killer-glyphosate
Background: Sacking of wildlife biologists and chief medical officer linked to glyphosate. Dissent crushed to protect #glyphosate addiction. https://gmwatch.org/en/106-news/latest-news/19046
Sacking of wildlife biologists and chief medical officer linked to glyphosate

Dissent crushed to protect New Brunswick’s glyphosate addiction

Rod Cumberland—the Canadian biologist fired after opposing #glyphosate use in forestry because of its catastrophic effect on wildlife—has a book out: “Part memoir, part exposé ... about how power and politics and corrupted science endanger our natural world.” https://www.amazon.ca/Ignoring-Evidence-Glyphosate-Abuse-Power/dp/B0H2DHHG4L