Our latest Review—Glyphosate, Fire and Science—has all the new studies showing glyphosate's harms; details the fraudulent basis of glyphosate regulation; and explains how #glyphosate is converting wild public forestlands into poisoned flammable tree farms gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...

“Biology’s unlike any other tech—what it produces can reproduce, spread across borders, mutate, evolve on its own. A software bug crashes a computer. A biological mistake can become self-propagating. Once a living organism is released into the world, it cannot simply be switched off or recalled.”

No more glowing bunnies — California bill targets sale of #GMO pets. California is considering a bill (AB 1382) that bans gene editing in pets for cosmetic purposes. The animal advocacy group Social Compassion in Legislation is sponsoring the legislation myemail.constantcontact.com/Call-to-Acti...

Gene editing's promises are the same as for #GMO crops: to end hunger, increase productivity, cut pesticides, address climate change. After three decades: hunger persists, environmental degradation deepens, biodiversity declines, and agriculture is more dependent on pesticides and corporate seeds.

Presence of #glyphosate in food distributed through social programs aimed at vulnerable populations in Peru and Uruguay. Glyphosate residues found in significant proportion of the analyzed foods, with concentrations exceeding maximum residue limits in some cases. revistas.unla.edu.ar/saludcolecti...

42 European NGOs (including GMWatch) warn of harmful consequences from deregulation of new GM techniques in animals. Animal welfare necessitates stringent and independent oversight rather than regulatory relaxation! politico.eu/wp-content/u...

Concerns that genetic engineering would replace critical conservation work heightened when Mr. Burgum, the interior secretary, celebrated the company's announcement on X, writing that "the marvel of 'de-extinction' technology can help forge a future where populations are never at risk."

Bayer told the Supreme Court it should largely have immunity from lawsuits since the EPA concluded glyphosate products were safe. But it’s now becoming clearer that the EPA came to that conclusion based in part on compromised research that Monsanto secretly orchestrated. “It’s just sad,” Kaurov said

Harvard professor @naomioreskes.bsky.social and researcher Alexander “Sasha” Kaurov—experts on corporate influence on science who studied the company emails—came to a similar conclusion to the EPA that the paper was ghostwritten. “The authors tried to mislead the public intentionally,” said Kaurov.

Soon after reports of #glyphosate use in Lebanon and Syria, and shortly before the US-Israeli strike on Iran, during which white phosphorus was reportedly used, President Trump designated elemental phosphorus—used to produce both white phosphorus and glyphosate—critical to US “national security.”

In addition to other war crimes, Israel is reportedly using chemical agents produced with German industrial involvement. “There’s strong evidence that phosphorus used in the Middle East war comes from Bayer’s #glyphosate production facility in Soda Springs in the US,” says @cbg-network.bsky.social

Two days previously, during a related vote at the ENVI Committee, the room was packed with lobbyists, who are reported to have “marched out of the room afterwards…to pop the champagne”. A spokesperson for agribiz giant Bayer told Politico: “It’s a really, really big deal for us.”

MEP Anja Hazekamp — on behalf of The Left Group — said that the law would undermine the very basis of the food system, and was the direct result of aggressive lobbying by the big agribiotech companies. “Vote with your hearts, vote with common sense, vote against this law,” she said.

New GMOs: European Parliament bows to biotech — @gm-freeze.bsky.social on the vote last week that removes freedom of choice and "undermines the very basis of the food system," according to one MEP www.gmfreeze.org/2026/06/19/n...

“We call on citizens, farmers’ organisations, local govt, social organisations, and national and regional bodies to use all available means to safeguard the food sovereignty of our territories, in defence of biodiversity, farmers’ rights to seeds, and the right to produce and consume GMO-free food.”

EU Member States will no longer be able to make use of the opt-out clause with new GMOs (NGTs) — that is, they have lost their right to ban cultivation on their own territory — which is currently applied to all GMOs (old and new) by two-thirds of EU countries, as well as by some regions.

ARCHE NOAH reminds the European Commission that the Commission’s own study on #patents, published in November 2025, warns that patents on new GMO (NGT) plants threaten the future of independent plant breeding in Europe. “We will not give up. This is about nothing less than control over our food.”

"@eurovia.org calls on the EU Member States which opposed this deregulation to launch proceedings to annul the regulation before the EU Court of Justice. The peasant movement will remain mobilised to prevent the implementation of this dangerous regulation and will pursue all available legal options"

Protest outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg this (decidedly grey!) morning against the deregulation of GMOs, the scrapping of consumers' right to know, and the threat to farmers from patents! Take action ahead of the vote tomorrow: www.blacked-out-ingredients.eu/en/start/

17th June: the European Parliament votes to deregulate GMOs and abolish its labelling on food. Our last chance to save food transparency is to let the Parliamentarians know how many of us deeply care. It's super easy to call them and every single call counts blacked-out-ingredients.eu/en/start/

🚨 Tell the European Parliament to carry on protecting farmers and consumers—and not endorse this betrayal! blacked-out-ingredients.eu/en/start/

#Glyphosate has been used in both Colombia and Brazil against Indigenous communities to drive them from their land in the interests of big agriculture corporations. Sprayed from the air, those affected report dizziness, headaches, stomach aches, nausea and diarrhea; doctors speak of poisoning.

Video now available of this testbiotech webinar, with biosafety experts explaining why the future of our biodiversity is at risk from lower environmental safety standards for GMOs that would allow far-reaching interventions in both plants & microorganisms testbiotech.org/en/events/we...

Urgent Take Action: 📲 Phone your Parliamentarians! Less than a week till the European Parliament votes to deregulate GMOs and abolish new #GMO labelling. Our last chance to save food transparency—every single call counts! Easy to do guide—start here: www.blacked-out-ingredients.eu/en/start/

Can you help bring this important film to the world? Claire Robinson of @gmwatch.bsky.social and our technical advisor Professor Michael Antoniou are among the many contributors to this inspiring and insightful feature film. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/in-symbiosis

16 June—Farmers mobilise in Strasbourg: Say NO to #GMO! 🇪🇺🚜✊🏽 Coalition of farmers, breeders, environmentalists, beekeepers and citizens invites you to join our protest against the deregulation of GMOs obtained by new genomic techniques (NGTs). More here: www.eurovia.org/news/16-june...

It’s not just 1 firm claiming its synbio product is biologically identical to real milk. #GMO lobbyists have been pushing govts to pour billions into synbio—“precision fermentation”—on the basis that this tech can produce proteins “biologically identical to those found in animal products”. It can’t!

91.4% of the increase in global #GMO crop area over the past six years has been in Brazil. It primarly involves GMO soybeans — tolerant to herbicides like #glyphosate — that are mostly exported as animal feed for factory farms. This expansion of cultivated land is linked to deforestation.

Just four countries—Brazil, the US, Argentina & Canada—cultivate 85.2% of the total GMO crop area, and four crops—soybeans, corn, cotton & canola—account for 99.2% of that. Other GMO crops account for less than 1% of global acreage. Yet they are often highlighted for PR purposes.

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.