GM Crops and Their False Promise of Higher Yield
The fact that genetically modified (GM) crops have major adverse impacts related to safety and environment is widely recognised now. Despite this the companies involved in the spread of genetically…
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Why the Recent Decision in India on Introducing Gene Edited Rice Varieties Should be Taken Back
The recent decision by the Government of India to introduce two gene edited rice varieties is being widely questioned and there are strong reasons why this should be taken back.…
Mutant Rice and Gates’s Lab Rats: Grand Experiments in India’s Fields
In late 2024, Bill Gates sparked outrage in India after describing the country as “a kind of laboratory to try things” during a podcast with Reid Hoffman. Gates emphasised the…
Attempts to Introduce Gene-Edited Rice Varieties Opposed In India
India has a good record of standing up for safety of food by opposing GM crops, particularly in the context of food. This is why despite relentless lobbying by powerful…
Toxic Agribusiness’s Genetically Mutilated Greenwash
In recent years, the global movement toward regenerative and organic agriculture has gained significant momentum. These approaches promise to restore soil health, enhance biodiversity, reduce reliance on synthetic chemicals and…
Urgency of Checking Spread of GM and Gene Editing Technologies as well Control of Multinational Companies on Farming and Seeds
As consciousness regarding the many-sided adverse impacts and high hazards and risks of GM crops have grown, some promoters allied to the same big business interests and multinational companies directly…
China is helping big agribusiness domination of world food system by promoting GM crops and related companies
While the global south expects China to play a leading role in preventing and resisting the increasing domination of the world food system by giant western agribusiness companies, in recent…
Bayer’s ‘Backward’ Claim: A Bid to Reap Control of Indian Agriculture
For some critics, if one firm tops a league table for anti-people, anti-nature business practices, it is Bayer (although there are many other worthy candidates). Nevertheless, the Indian Council for Agricultural Research…
GM Lobbyists Target Staple Food of Billions—Rice and Wheat
A wake-up call before it is too late—the most important food crops—staple food of billions of people—rice and wheat are being targeted by GM crop promoting big business interests and…
Farmers’ Rejection of GM Potatoes Supported by Senior Scientist
On September 19 nearly 100 civil society representatives, farmer organizations, scientists and academics of Nigeria issued a statement calling upon their government to discontinue plans to introduce GM potatoes and…
A Faustian Bargain with Corporate Power: From Monsanto to Bayer, the Worst of Both Worlds
Environmentalist and campaigner Rosemary Mason has been relentlessly exposing the insidious effects of agrochemicals on human health and the environment through a decade-long series of incisive reports. Many of these…
Corporate Europe Observatory’s Report on ‘Bayer’s Toxic Trails’ Deserves the Close Attention of All
The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) has rendered a great public service by very recently publishing a report titled ‘Bayer’s Toxic Trails’ which reveals how the German agrochemical giant Bayer has…
New law facilitating the entry of GMOs into Senegal: Senegal in danger!
1. New GMO law in Senegal. On June 3, 2022, Senegal adopted a new law facilitating the entry of GMOs into the country, a law adopted under pressure from the…
Waltzing With Bayer Makes ICAR Blind: Ditches Mandate To Farmers And Uses Mutagenesis To Drive Herbicide-Tolerant Crops Into India
A GMO PIL was filed in early 2005 (ArunaRodrigues & Ors. vs.Union of India, Writ Petition (Civil) No. 260 of 2005) in the Supreme Court (SC) to protect our natural…
Target Malaria project in Burkina Faso: The project suffers setbacks
The entire world is observing with growing concern the activities of the Target Malaria project, which has declared the intention to carry out the first mondial trial of gene drive…
GM technology is more about increasing control of multinational companies on farmers, not helping them
While the scientifically established evidence regarding the adverse impacts of GM (Genetically Modified) crops and food on health, farming and environment increases, the powerful attempts to spread these crops have…
Natural Farming Cannot Co-exist with GM Crops
Some countries are taking up the promotion of natural farming crops which is very welcome. However a big problem and constraint arises when they say at the same time that…
Split Verdict on GMO in India: Implement the common observations and conclusions of both the Judges
-As the Supreme Court delivers a split verdict in the GMOs-related PILs, Coalition for a GM-Free India asks for the implementation of the common observations and conclusions of both Hon’ble…
Herbicide Tolerant trait in Rice crops – Basmati by mutagenesis
Summary This Herbicide Tolerant (HT) crop by the mutagenesis route (which is NOT genetic engineering, but is nevertheless, GM (genetic modification) and in BASMATI, believe it or not, is a clear…
Why India and other Global South countries should firmly reject the technology of genetically modified insects
In recent years the technology of modified insects including genetically modified insects, particularly mosquitos, as well as other related technologies, have been exposed in several countries for their harmful impacts…
Time to Ring Warning Bells on High Risk Technologies of Genetic and Other Modification of Insects
Various technologies of manipulation and modification of insects, including genetic modification, have been attracting a lot of debate in recent years, particularly in the context of mosquitoes. This debate heats…
Mexico’s Struggle against Imposition of GM Corn by USA Needs Wide Support as People’s Basic Right to Safe Food is Threatened
How sweeping can the reach of imperialism become, and what extreme forms can it take? Can it even take such an atrocious form as to decide what people of other…
GM Golden Rice in the Philippines Stopped: The Deception of Development and the Politics of Progress
On 19 April 2024, the Philippine Supreme Court issued a cease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice and GM eggplant in the country. The…
GMOs will destroy Indian agriculture, which is Non-GMO and will harm the health of 1 billion Indians and their animals
Hybrid Bt cotton, the only commercialised GM crop in India, has failed conclusively. Based on this failure and the evidence on GM crops to date, the Union of India’s proposal…
Supreme Court Case Should Consider the Growing Evidence against GM Crops and the Serious Flaws in Government’s Edible Oil policy
In the on-going case on GM Mustard in the Supreme Court of India the bench has taken the very appropriate stand that the court cannot get involved beyond a point…
Controversial Genetically Engineered Chestnut Tree Loses Support From Its Backers
A stunning admission by the American Chestnut Foundation exposes the nation’s broken regulatory system. On December 8, the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) announced it withdrew support “for several pending regulatory petitions that would authorize…
Supreme Court Deserves Praise but Government Stand on GM Crops Evokes Great Concern
Those who understand the terrible implications of the onslaught of the GM lobby (genetically modified food and crops lobby) on Indian farming and farmers and are devoted to protecting India’s…
Science and Public Interest Halt the Push for GM Crops in India: Approval by Contamination?
Between 1991 and 2016, the population of Delhi and its suburbs increased from 9.4 million to 25 million. In 2023, the World Population Review website estimates Delhi’s population to be…
Worldwide Support Needed to Strengthen Mexico Government and People’s Efforts to Keep Away GM Corn
The government and people of Mexico have been involved in a struggle for several years to protect their staple food corn from serious health and environmental hazards linked strongly with…
Eminent Scientists Have Exposed Very Serious Hazards of GM Crops
As the issues of food safety and health hazards are extremely important, many people are very keen to know the reality of GM (genetically modified) crops but they feel confused…
Why Increase Trials When Due to Serious Inherent Problems GM Crops Should Be Banned
There is increasing and overwhelming evidence of the many-sided serious adverse impacts and dangers of GM (genetically modified) crops. To give an example, a review by eminent Indian scientist Dr.…
Shocking Corruption and Violation of Ethics in Regulatory Work Concerning GM Crops
While several reputed scientists of great integrity have consistently spoken against GM (genetically modified) crops and a lot of evidence regarding their harmful impacts has accumulated, one argument that has…
GM Crops Likely to Worsen Climate Change Related Problems for Farmers
The shadow of climate change related problems hangs heavy over most farmers as they struggle increasingly against unexpected weather conditions, extreme weather events and disasters. In such conditions it is…
Genetically Modified Animals Bring New Risks and Uncertainties
As though the havoc created by GM crops was not adequate, several experimental efforts relating to genetically modified or engineered animals are bringing a wide range of new risks and…
Turning Healthy Food into Disease Causing Food—The Case of GM Corn
In India maize or corn has been traditionally known as a nutritious and tasty food crop grown predominantly on small family farms. It is relished in the form of mainly…
Indian Mustard shall be protected from the onslaught of GM mustard: Citizens across India
“Safe Food Week” being marked all over the country this week Delhi, February 9th 2023: National Safe Food Day was marked widely all over the country today, on the day…
GM-Free India challenges government to come out with evidence on GM Mustard
“Union Environment Ministry’s response vindicates our evidence and pointers on serious regulatory compromises in India’s appraisal and approval of GM mustard”: Coalition “Govt. should respond to each point with evidence,…
Violations of Regulatory Processes Relating to GM Crops Exposed Again in the Context of GM Mustard
As the many-sided risks and harms of GM crops are so serious, obvious and well-established, it is only to be expected that any completely unbiased appraisal and regulatory system will…
India’s GM Mustard: An Increasingly Bitter Taste
In a fair world, Aruna Rodrigues would be heralded as an incredible individual for her ongoing struggle to protect the socio-economic and environmental integrity of India. So says respected environmentalist,…
Gag-order to obstruct scientific opinion on GM crops is anti-science, new directive needed
In a recent press release the director general of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) explained various issues relating to GM mustard approval. He also issued orders against presenting…
GM Crops–How Science Has Been Suppressed To Promote Big Business Interests
Many eminent scientists who have examined the technology of genetically engineered (GE) or genetically modified (GM) crops have come to a clear conclusion that it is a highly hazardous and…
Protecting Brinjal from piracy at a time when MoEF&CC dilutes biodiversity laws
by Sachin P S & Nidhi Hanji[1] The term ‘piracy’ is often invoked when creative works are copied and distributed without permission of the rightful and original owner of the…
Threat of Genetic Contamination Highlighted in Supreme Court of India
The extremely serious issue of the threat of genetic contamination caused by genetically modified or engineered (GM or GE) crops finally reached the Supreme Court of India on November 30…
Who Needs or Wants GMOs? Not the Public, Not India’s Farmers
Many scientists lobbying for the deregulation of agricultural biotechnology ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs) in the European Union have either direct or indirect interests in commercialising and marketing new genetically modified…
Supreme Court Raises Extremely Important Questions on GM Mustard
On December 1, in the on-going case relating to objections raised against the introduction of the first GM (genetically modified) food crop in the form of GM Mustard in India,…
The Strange Case of USA Lobbyists Pushing Unsafe GM Food on Others
Suppose there is a restaurant in your locality which is notorious for serving unsafe food. Of course you feel very bad about this, but not exactly threatened as…
Reimagining Food, Farming and Humanity: Ecomodernism’s Dystopia
“Ecomodernists offer no solutions to contemporary problems other than technical innovation and further integration into private markets which are structured systematically by centralized state power in favour of the wealthy……
Bt cotton– Farmers Burdened With Expensive, Dependence Increasing, More Pest Susceptible Varieties
During the last two decades the experiences of over 7 million cotton growing farmers in India, the world’s highest producer of cotton, has changed drastically as a diversity of cotton…
There Are High Hopes from Judiciary to Check Onslaught of GM Food Crops in India
Since mid-October there has been widespread concern regarding hurried introduction of GM (genetically modified) food crops in India due to the approval of a GM/HT (herbicide tolerant) mustard crop by…
Hurried introduction of GM food crops in India will be unscientific, undemocratic and unacceptably risky
Some recent statements that have appeared in media indicate that there is a lot of pressure for very hurried introduction of genetically modified mustard crop after its approval by a…
India’s GM Mustard and the 30-Year Path to Food Tyranny
A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the growing of genetically modified (GM) mustard in India. On 26 October 2022, however,…
GM Crops including Mustard Aimed at Pushing Corporate Domination at the Cost of Grave Harm to Farmers, Food and Health
Recent times have witnessed constant constant lobbying by very powerful corporate interest lobbies for the introduction of GM (genetically modified) crops and technology in India. These corporate interests have been…
Agri Biotech Sector Motivated by Monopoly Control and Sacred GMO Cash Cow
We are currently seeing rising food prices due to a combination of an engineered food crisis for geopolitical reasons, financial speculation by hedge funds, pension funds and investment banks and…
162 Doctors Express Serious Concerns About GM Foods in India
In recent weeks several groups which have been active on food safety issues have expressed concens about the serious health hazards involved in the increased possibility of introduction of imported…
Why it is important today to recall the democratic processes which led to the moratorium on Bt brinjal
At a time when there is widespread apprehension regarding high-power efforts to weaken regulations which have by and large sought to keep away GM foods from India, it will be…
GM Food With Its Serious Health Hazards Should Never be Approved in India
Recently the Coalition for GM-Free Agriculture in India has expressed serious concern regarding the new regulations being framed and discussed for regulating GM food as these are leaving wide gaps…
Govt of India’s decision to import GM soymeal into India patently illegal
New Delhi, August 27th 2021: The Coalition for a GM-Free India, a civil society platform that had been in the forefront of struggles against hazardous gene technologies being deployed in…
Serious Threat to Food and Farming – GM Lobby Plans New Offensive With Gene Edited Crops
As these are increasing warnings of distinguished scientists against Genetically Modified (GM) crops, the strong GM lobby led by some of the biggest corporate interests (who are bent on…
Bt Cotton in India is a GMO Template for a ‘monumental irreversible catastrophe’
Cotton is the only genetically modified (GM) crop that has been officially approved in India and has been cultivated (illegally then legally) in the country for more than 20 years.…
From Cotton to Brinjal: Fraudulent GMO Project in India Sustained by Deception
Insecticidal Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton is the first and only GM (genetically modified) crop that has been approved in India. It has been cultivated in the country for more than…
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