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…
GMO In India
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
“We challenge Govt of India to explain how it will prevent farmers from using herbicides on a HT GM mustard crop”: Coalition for a GM-Free India
The Coalition for a GM-Free India threw a challenge at the Government of India to show how it will prevent farmers from using herbicides on HT mustard crop that received…
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,…
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…
GM Food Should Never be Approved
At a time when serious food shortages are emerging in several parts of world, food safety issues may get lesser attention and hence it is all the more important…
Despite Growing Evidence of Serious Risks of GM Crops, Now Attempts Are On to Find Backdoor Entry in India
At the time of a huge corporate assault to get clearance for Bt brinjal GM ( Genetically Modified) crop, farmers and civil society had joined hands together to resist…
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…
Broken white rice from India withdrawn from European Union after found to being GM in origin
To: Shri A.K. Jain, Chairperson, Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Indira Paryavaran Bhavan, Jor Bagh, New Delhi. Date - 19th October 2021 Dear Sir,…
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…
Pushing GMO Crops Into India: Experts Debunk High-Level Claims of Bt Cotton Success
On 6 July 2020, an article extolling the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops appeared on the BloombergQuint website based on an interview with Dr Ramesh Chand, a member of…
2019 Indian General Election: Manifesto Demand for Indefinite Moratorium on GMOs
A new ‘Political Manifesto’ has demanded an indefinite moratorium on the environmental release of GMOs in India pending independent and rigorous biosafety risk assessment and regulation. The documents states: “GMO…
GM Crops in India: Approval by Contamination?
The regulatory system for GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in India is in tatters. So said the Coalition for a GMFree India (CGMFI) in 2017 after media reports about the illegal cultivation of GM soybean…
Offshoring Indian Agriculture: Is India Becoming a GMO Trash Can?
The regulatory system for GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in India is in tatters. So said the Coalition for a GMFree India (CGMFI) in 2017 after media reports about the illegal cultivation of GM soybean…
Fabricated Reality: Lobbying For GMO Agriculture In India
Richard John Roberts is a prominent biochemist and molecular biologist. On his recent visits to India, he has talked about the supposed virtues of genetically modified (GM) food and crops,…
GM Food Crops Illegally Growing In India: The Criminal Plan To Change The Genetic Core of the Nation’s Food System
The GM Contamination Register database is run by Genewatch and Greenpeace and contains cases of genetically modified (GM) contamination dating from 1997. The authors of a 2014 paper, published in the International Journal…
India Now!
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Prominent Lawyer Prashant Bhushan Urges Indian Government to Stop Commercialisation of GM Mustard
The environment ministry in India will make the final call after the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee recently gave a positive recommendation for the commercial cultivation of GM mustard. Whether the…
GM Mustard Case Returns To Court In India
This week, India's Supreme Court will hear the next installment of the case brought by Aruna Rodrigues to stop the commercial release of genetically modified mustard. The Government of India…
Development And India: Why GM Mustard Really Matters
The push to commercialise the growing of genetically modified (GM) mustard in India is currently held up in court due to a lawsuit by Aruna Rodrigues. The next hearing…
All Is Not Well With Indian GM Mustard
Recently Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Climate change has placed on its web site the review report…
Lower Yields And Agropoisons: What Is The Point Of GM Mustard In India?
The decision whether to allow the commercialisation of the first genetically modified (GM) food crop (mustard) in India rumbles on. As I have previously discussed here, the bottom line is government…
Seeds Of Occupation: India’s Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm syndrome, or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon described in 1973 in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending…
Bayer’s Trojan Horse: Criminal Prosecution Required To Stop GM Food Crops Fraudulently Entering India
The decision whether to allow the commercialisation of the first genetically modified (GM) food crop (mustard) in India is close. Serious conflicts of interest, sleight of hand and regulatory delinquency…
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