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🌱 GM crops use biotechnology 🧬 to improve yield, nutrition, and pest resistance, supporting sustainable agriculture and global food security 🌍.
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Shocking - but not surprising - example of 'regulatory capture' where industry (pesticides and GM crops in this case) does whatever it takes to co-opt the supposed regulating agencies - in this case US Dept of Agriculture and USAid (to capture African markets)
#pesticide
#GMcrops
#Seeds
#Monsanto
#Syngenta
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/government-funded-social-network-attacking-pesticide-critics

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

Wesley Tourangeau

#GMcrops #GMO #GeneticallyModified #Biotechnology #Agriculture #Canada #CanAg #PowerRelations #Discourse

#OpenScholarship from Canadian Food Studies (CFS)

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#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/208/180

Toxins from the pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis are used to kill crop pests, but evidence in fruit flies suggests they can also target the intestines of non-target animal species. #GMCrops #GeneticModification #Genetics #Agriculture
https://elifesciences.org/articles/80179?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic