Yield10 Bioscience shares have lost more than half of their value and hit an all-time low after the agricultural bioscience company said it was raising $3.7 million in a public offering. Yield 10 shares were recently changing hands at 40 cents, down 60%. [GMW: Yield10 is partnering with Rothamsted Research in the UK in their programme to develop and field trial GM camelina sativa plants containing fish-like oil. Rothamsted is "strategically funded" with UK taxpayer money via the national science funding body, the BBSRC. Yet again, the UK government seems to be backing a GMO failure-in-the-making. Yield10 has also announced "positive results" in the first field test of multi-herbicide tolerance traits in GM camelina. This camelina is tolerant to imidazolinone and and sulfonylurea herbicides. It's destined for the biofuels market.] MarketWatch

 

 

Toxin Free USA, a nonprofit dedicated to consumer protection and education, launched a campaign urging Whole Foods Market to stop selling fresh GMO sweetcorn. Whole Foods Market claims to be the "organic capital of the world" and advertises, "We don’t just put organics on a shelf — we put them on a pedestal." But this summer, the only fresh sweetcorn displayed and sold at many Whole Foods stores across the country is GMO sweetcorn produced from patented Bayer-Monsanto or Syngenta seed. Whole Foods customers have spotted the GMO sweetcorn in the produce section in Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, Washington state and Washington DC. The genetically engineered white and bi-colour corncobs are in bins with signs indicating "Bioengineered Food" in fine print. “Bioengineered” is the USDA’s new term for GMOs. Toxin Free USA

 

 

Researchers have found an association between urinary glyphosate levels and adverse neurological outcomes in US adults. They observed lower cognitive function scores, greater odds of severe depressive symptoms, and increased risk of serious hearing difficulty in individuals with higher glyphosate exposure. Environmental Research

 

 

The results of a recent poll in Germany show that almost 70% of a representative sample of Germans want their government to keep its promise to ban glyphosate at the national level. Civey (German language) via GMWatch on Twitter @GMWatch

 

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