| | 23/April/20
| | Surveys make unsettling reading for GMO proponents As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launches a new PR campaign called "Feed your Mind" to convince people that GM foods and crops are desirable and beneficial, new surveys have been conducted to try to find out how the public currently views the technology, including new gene-editing techniques. The findings make unsettling reading for GMO proponents. One survey found large majority want gene-edited products to carry detailed labels – and health concerns remain strong. GMWatch Neonicotinoid pesticides have caused a huge surge in the toxicity of US agriculture Scientists are warning about a second Silent Spring after a new study found that US agriculture is 48 times more toxic to insects than it was 20 years ago. A peer-reviewed study published in the journal PLOS One found that 92 percent of that toxic load can be attributed to neonicotinoids — the most widely used class of insecticides. Neonics, as they are commonly called, are 1,000 times more toxic to bees than DDT, the infamous pesticide exposed by Rachel Carson’s work in the 1960s, says Dr Kendra Klein, a report co-author and senior scientist at Friends of the Earth. The Revelator German GMO-Free market increased by 15% in 2019 In 2019, manufacturers and processors achieved a turnover of around 8.8 billion euros with goods carrying the “Ohne GenTechnik” (Without Genetic Engineering) seal. In shops, consumers spent about 11.3 billion euros on them. Compared to 2018, this represents an increase of 15 percent, reports the German Association of Food Without Genetic Engineering (VLOG). It expects consumer spending to increase to at least 11.8 billion euros in 2020. Sustainable Pulse COVID-19: Documents reveal UK Government breached own scientific risk assessment guidance An official Government document published in January 2020 confirms that, by delaying action in response to COVID-19, officials breached their own internal cross-government standards concerning risks to “human, animal or plant health”. In the wake of an investigation by the Sunday Times, followed by an unprecedented Government response, the release of this document raises a number of urgent new questions about the Government’s COVID-19 strategy. Byline Times DONATE TO GMWATCH __________________________________________________________ Website: http://www.gmwatch.org
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