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EU paves way for more designer plants https://www.politico.eu/article/crops-agriculture-genetically-modified-organisms-europe/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Newgenomictechniques(NGTs) #Sustainableagriculture #Geneticmodification #AgricultureandFood #Sustainability #Biodiversity #Insecticides #Fertilizers #Seeds #Wheat

Brazil opens world’s largest mosquito biofactory to fight disease

Oct. 10 (UPI) — The world’s largest factory that produces mosquitoes that can prevent dengue, Zika and chikungunya…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Aedesaegyptimosquito #AlexandrePadilha #Brazil #Campinas #Curitiba #geneticmodification #healthministry #Latvia #LV
https://www.newsbeep.com/183163/

Gene editing lets scientists alter wild animal DNA for conservation. But should they?

Frogs that are part alpaca and other genetically engineered wildli…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ABCRadioNational #alpaca-frog #animalreproduction #ArtificialEvolution #AU #Australia #dasyurid #de-extinction #Geneticediting #geneticengineering #geneticmodification #GM #GMO #marsupial #northernquoll #reproduction' #ScienceFriction #Thylacine #transgenetics #veterinaryscience
https://www.newsbeep.com/119857/

Genetic Modification of Wheat to Increase Its Drought Tolerance - #wheat #drought #geneticmodification #transgenicplants #functionalgenes #genomeediting #regulatorygenes #genetics #agriculture - https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S009545272503003X

Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still impossible

Colossal's plans to "de-extinct" the giant moa are still... #genetic modification

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2487550-colossals-plans-to-de-extinct-the-giant-moa-are-still-impossible/

"Maddie Hall, who worked on special projects at OpenAI, founded Living Carbon. This public benefit company aims to combat climate change by genetically enhancing trees to capture and store more CO2. Living Carbon has raised $36 million from Felicis."

https://www.everythingstartups.com/article/the-11-tech-mafias-ruling-silicon-valley

Or you could, you know, just put all that money into getting more trees planted. Setting up local nurseries for eco-sourced varieties, acquiring marginal land for reserves, etc.

#GE #GMO #GeneticModification #LivingCarbon

An another attempt….

#artwork #art #drawing #mixedmedia #artichokistan #tikography #newspecies #geneticmodification

Genetic Modification of Mosquitos: A Potential Breakthrough in the Fight Against Malaria http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJW0Fz #GeneticModification #MosquitoControl #MalariaPrevention #HealthInnovation #SustainableSolutions

From 2014: #Diné #FoodSovereignty : A Report on the #NavajoNation Food System and the Case to Rebuild
a Self Sufficient Food System for the Diné People

by the Diné Policy Institute, April 2014

#GMO / #GE on the Navajo Nation

"GMO/GE seeds are currently being used on the Navajo Nation by the #NavajoAgricultureProductsIndustry (#NAPI), located near the chapters of #Hogback, #UpperFruitland, and #Shiprock including #GMOCorn purchased from #Monsanto. As the region remains a major agricultural hub for many Diné farmers, the risk of #GMOContamination of Diné crops, particularly corn, is high. Furthermore, NAPI’s production of #alfalfa also utilizes GMO seed, which many Diné livestock owners purchase under the '#NavajoPride' brand, so GMO/GE feed is entering the Navajo Nation food system through NAPI products.

"In terms of Diné cultural perspectives, Diné knowledge holders, elders, and farmers have criticized the practice of GMO/GE by #biotech industries throughout Diné Policy Institute’s research and Food Sovereignty Initiative, stating that these practices are in direct violation of our teachings; of the Diné Fundamental Laws and our relationship and duty with plants and animals, particularly with our relationship with corn, our most sacred plant, and have stated that GMO/GE threatens the Diné way of life. As GMOs/GE pose such a large threat to Diné famers, Diné seeds, and Diné lifeways, and go against our most basic teachings, it is vital that the Navajo Nation and Diné people address both the presence of GMO/GE food and seeds on the Navajo Nation as well the potential future risks of GMO/GE to Diné Agriculture.

Ban on GMO/GE Seeds and #Pesticides on the Navajo Nation

The technologies and legalities of #GeneticModification and #GeneticEngineering are in direct contradiction to Diné Food Sovereignty. The #corporate ownership and control of seeds threaten the future of Diné agriculture; Diné people must control their seeds and agricultural practices in order to rebuild a self-sufficient food system that provides healthy foods for Diné people and also ensures the continuation of Diné agriculture and lifeways. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that Diné people, Farm Boards and Committees, Chapters, and the Navajo Nation move to ban GMO/GE seeds on the Navajo Nation. As GMO/GE seeds are already being used on the Navajo Nation by the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry (NAPI), this will require NAPI to change agricultural practices and policies, and end the purchase and production of GMO/GE crops. Recent State legislations have outlawed the banning of GMO/GE seeds in many counties; counties and states in the United States where people have the authority to ban GMO/GE seeds are becoming increasing rare. Therefore, the Navajo Nation and the Diné people have a unique opportunity to enact what many cannot through an assertion of Diné Sovereignty.

Native Seed Protections

"In addition to banning GMO/GE seeds, the Navajo Nation and Diné people should also consider enacting legal protections for our Diné seeds, to hold biotech corporations accountable for contamination of Diné seeds if this does occur. This is particularly urgent as legislation and court decisions at the state and federal level are making it increasingly difficult to hold biotech companies responsible for the contamination of heritage, heirloom, and non-GMO/GE seeds. One example of this is the '#MonsantoProtectionAct,' a piece of federal legislation.

#SeedBanks and #SeedLibraries

"Diné people can begin to protect Diné seeds and provide access to heritage, non GMO/GE seeds through the creation of community Seed Banks and Seed Libraries. Seed banks store seeds, while seed libraries allow people to take seeds to grow, provided that they give some seeds back from what they grow after harvest. Diné seed banks and libraries would also provide access to seeds for growers, addressing a concern of famers in the Community Food Assessment – that they didn’t have access to Native seeds. Seed Banks can include state of the art technology, such as that used by #NativeSeedSearch in Tucson, AZ. However, this is not necessary; Diné and other Native people historically stored seeds in clay jars, recent excavations of such seed preservation methods in the Midwest have produced seeds that were able to grow after 800 years. The seed bank in Tesuque Pueblo in New Mexico stores seeds in jars in a dark and cool in-ground cellar.

Education

"GMO/GE ingredients are in the majority of foods that Diné people are eating and GMO/GE seeds are on the Navajo Nation, however, most Diné people are unaware of the existence of these practices. Therefore public education and outreach on genetic modification and genetic engineering for both Diné people and Navajo Nation leadership is needed."

pages 78-79

https://www.dinecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dpi-food-sovereignty-report.pdf

#CorporateColonialism #GMOs #BigAg
#EndCapitalism #Colonialism #FoodSecurity #Decolonize #TraditionalFoods
#Capitalism #CulturalGenocide

GMO doublespeak: An analysis of power and discourse in Canadian debates over agricultural biotechnology

Wesley Tourangeau

#GeneticModification #GeneticallyModified #GMO #CanAg #Agriculture #Biotechnology #Canada

#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/208

Hidden Heroes: How microorganisms are shaping Europe’s future [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/opinion/hidden-heroes-how-microorganisms-are-shaping-europes-future/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #bioeconomy #biomanufacturing #Biotechnology #geneticmodification

‘A new beginning’: US man who received pig kidney transplant returns home

> Scientists at the hospital partnered with biotechnology company eGenesis to genetically edit the kidney for transplant, a multi-year process that removed harmful pig genes from the organ and inactivated porcine retroviruses that could potentially cause infection.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/pig-kidney-transplant

#biotech #medicine #geneticModification #geneEditing #geneticallyModified #gm #health #renalFailure #kidneyFailure #kidney

Would You Eat This Purple Tomato?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/norfolk-purple-tomato-genetically-modified-foods #foods #GeneticModification #tomatoes #purple #snapdragon #anthocyanins

#ElectricEels Able To Affect #GeneticModification With Their #Power?

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-zap-from-an-electric-eel-could-give-nearby-organisms-new-genes

#Scientists Still Can’t Be Trusted on #GeneEditing

https://progressive.org/op-eds/scientists-still-cant-be-trusted-on-gene-editing-shanks-20231204/

#Artificialintelligence poses a whole new threat to the already dangerous practice of heritable #human #geneticmodification.

#DestructiveFairytale
#GM #GeneticModification

#Farmers are and have been told a beautiful fairy tale: a wizard came by the farm and told the farmer: buy my product and all the weeds will disappear leaving only the most beautiful crop.
The farmer believed the wizard. But to pay the wizard he needed more crop so he went to the banker and got more money to buy more land and machines.
The farmer didn't know, or didn't want to know that the wizard and the banker were very good friends and only interested in gold.
In the end the farmer was left with desolate land and had only one option left: buy still more of the wizard's product and lend more of the banker's money.

Now watch this tale out of #Argentina where GM was promoted ten years ago and how well it all worked out.

"Van vruchtbare landbouwgrond naar een verarmde bodem"
by Zembla (In Dutch but with Eng subs)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO2rabip0is

Quotes:
#Farming #Zembla @PabloTitonel
"Everywhere in the world it is the farmer who TAKES THE RISK. Lots of companies (and banks) are making money of the farmer but it is the farmer who actually takes the risk." //
"There is NO SIMPLE SOLUTION to a COMPLEX PROBLEM. People who advocate GM (genetically modification) they use it as an excuse. For example "We're going to feed the world" or "We're going to adapt to climate change"; those are complex problems that need more smarter solutions than just GM crop or GM technology."