#gmos — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gmos, aggregated by home.social.
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New #GMOs: #EU lawmakers abolish minimum rights for consumers, breeders, food sector. Today, the #European Parliament has failed to protect #farmers, consumers and breeders, removing all types of #patent safeguards, #safety checks, traceability and labelling. www.euractiv.com/news/new-rul...
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American goes abroad and realizes why America made her sick
Nearly everyon…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiandiet #~popular_source-pageview #Americandiet #americanfood #americantourist #eurporandiet #freshfood #gmos #health #Italia #Italian #ItalianDiet #ItalianFood #italianmarket #Italianpizza #italianshopping #italiano #italy #MediterraneanDiet #ProcessedFood #sicksociety #walking #Wine
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American goes abroad and realizes why America made her sick
Nearly everyon…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiandiet #~popular_source-pageview #Americandiet #americanfood #americantourist #eurporandiet #freshfood #gmos #health #Italia #Italian #ItalianDiet #ItalianFood #italianmarket #Italianpizza #italianshopping #italiano #italy #MediterraneanDiet #ProcessedFood #sicksociety #walking #Wine
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American goes abroad and realizes why America made her sick https://www.diningandcooking.com/2655522/american-goes-abroad-and-realizes-why-america-made-her-sick-2/ #~popular_sourcePageview #AmericanDiet #AmericanFood #AmericanTourist #EurporanDiet #FreshFood #gmos #health #Italia #Italian #ItalianDiet #ItalianFood #ItalianMarket #ItalianPizza #ItalianShopping #italiano #italy #MediterraneanDiet #ProcessedFood #SickSociety #walking #Wine
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American goes abroad and realizes why America made her sick https://www.diningandcooking.com/2655522/american-goes-abroad-and-realizes-why-america-made-her-sick-2/ #~popular_sourcePageview #AmericanDiet #AmericanFood #AmericanTourist #EurporanDiet #FreshFood #gmos #health #Italia #Italian #ItalianDiet #ItalianFood #ItalianMarket #ItalianPizza #ItalianShopping #italiano #italy #MediterraneanDiet #ProcessedFood #SickSociety #walking #Wine
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So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!
Fortress Yellowstone
The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world
by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026
Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "[...]
"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."
Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations
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So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!
Fortress Yellowstone
The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world
by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026
Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "[...]
"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."
Read more:
https://inthesetimes.com/article/yellowstone-billionaires-conservation-montana-deforest-amazon#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations
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Beyond GM's legal team has identified potential violations of the Human Rights Act, the Aarhus Convention and the Habitats Directive. They say the regulations also exceed Parliamentary authorisation by preventing safety testing. Polls show 80% of UK consumers want all #GMOs clearly labelled and traceable.
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Beyond GM's legal team has identified potential violations of the Human Rights Act, the Aarhus Convention and the Habitats Directive. They say the regulations also exceed Parliamentary authorisation by preventing safety testing. Polls show 80% of UK consumers want all #GMOs clearly labelled and traceable.
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New Zealand’s governing coalition’s radical reform of the gene tech sector in doubt as talks prove fruitless. Coalition partners debating controversial deregulation plans — with NZ First refusing to support the bill if it enables the environmental release of #GMOs https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/05/particularly-complex-gene-tech-bill-in-doubt-as-coalition-talks-hit-brick-wall/
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New Zealand’s governing coalition’s radical reform of the gene tech sector in doubt as talks prove fruitless. Coalition partners debating controversial deregulation plans — with NZ First refusing to support the bill if it enables the environmental release of #GMOs https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/05/particularly-complex-gene-tech-bill-in-doubt-as-coalition-talks-hit-brick-wall/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@GMWatch/116048129760447606
Despite the risks of combining the substances, the US Environmental Protection Agency has twice approved it for use on food crops. The compound is annually spread on around 4.5 million acres of fields in which genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton are grown. #GMO #GMOs
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@GMWatch/116048129760447606
Despite the risks of combining the substances, the US Environmental Protection Agency has twice approved it for use on food crops. The compound is annually spread on around 4.5 million acres of fields in which genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton are grown. #GMO #GMOs
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Hybrid #megapests evolving in #Brazil are a threat to #crops worldwide
Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one #pesticide that could cause serious problems in many countries
By Michael Le Page
23 January 2026"It was thought that H. armigera and H. zea couldn’t interbreed, but in 2018 genetic analysis revealed a few hybrids between the species. Jiggins and his colleagues have now analysed the genome of nearly 1000 moths collected in Brazil over the past decade.
"They found that a third of H. armigera now carry genes providing resistance to the Bt toxin – and they got these genes from H. zea. Bt maize was first introduced in North America in the 1990s, where some H. zea strains evolved resistance. These resistance genes seem to have spread to South America and now crossed species. As yet, the hybrid H. armigera haven’t been a major problem, says Jiggins, but that could change as resistance spreads.
"The transfer has gone both ways – nearly all H. zea in Brazil now have a gene conferring resistance to a class of insecticides called pyrethroids that was acquired from H. armigera. 'We’re just sort of blown away by how rapidly it’s happened,' says Jiggins.
" 'With global connectivity and climate change together lowering barriers to species’ range expansions, such megapests are likely to be an increasing global problem, as is the escalating rate of biological invasions more generally,' says Angela McGaughran at the University of Waikato in New Zealand."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cgped#Soybeans #PesticideResistance #SoybeanCrops #CottonBollworm #CornEarworm #HybridInsects #GMOs #InvasiveSpecies
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Hybrid #megapests evolving in #Brazil are a threat to #crops worldwide
Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one #pesticide that could cause serious problems in many countries
By Michael Le Page
23 January 2026"It was thought that H. armigera and H. zea couldn’t interbreed, but in 2018 genetic analysis revealed a few hybrids between the species. Jiggins and his colleagues have now analysed the genome of nearly 1000 moths collected in Brazil over the past decade.
"They found that a third of H. armigera now carry genes providing resistance to the Bt toxin – and they got these genes from H. zea. Bt maize was first introduced in North America in the 1990s, where some H. zea strains evolved resistance. These resistance genes seem to have spread to South America and now crossed species. As yet, the hybrid H. armigera haven’t been a major problem, says Jiggins, but that could change as resistance spreads.
"The transfer has gone both ways – nearly all H. zea in Brazil now have a gene conferring resistance to a class of insecticides called pyrethroids that was acquired from H. armigera. 'We’re just sort of blown away by how rapidly it’s happened,' says Jiggins.
" 'With global connectivity and climate change together lowering barriers to species’ range expansions, such megapests are likely to be an increasing global problem, as is the escalating rate of biological invasions more generally,' says Angela McGaughran at the University of Waikato in New Zealand."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cgped#Soybeans #PesticideResistance #SoybeanCrops #CottonBollworm #CornEarworm #HybridInsects #GMOs #InvasiveSpecies
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By abandoning risk assessment, labelling and traceability on the vast majority of new #GMOs in the EU, this deeply flawed political deal undermines the precautionary principle and deprives farmers, the food sector and consumers of the right to know and to choose. At the same time, it opens the door to an expansion of #patents on plants, threatening farmers and small and medium-sized breeders and the resilience of the European food system. https://www.enga.org/newsdetails/coreper-supports-the-trilogue-deal/
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By abandoning risk assessment, labelling and traceability on the vast majority of new #GMOs in the EU, this deeply flawed political deal undermines the precautionary principle and deprives farmers, the food sector and consumers of the right to know and to choose. At the same time, it opens the door to an expansion of #patents on plants, threatening farmers and small and medium-sized breeders and the resilience of the European food system. https://www.enga.org/newsdetails/coreper-supports-the-trilogue-deal/
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The European Council will vote tomorrow on new regulations regarding new #GMOs (NGTs). If they approve the current proposal, large, global corporations will be able to apply for #patents, giving them significant control over our food supply. https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-europa-geef-de-macht-over-onze-voedselketen-niet-uit-handen~bea1b49a/
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The European Council will vote tomorrow on new regulations regarding new #GMOs (NGTs). If they approve the current proposal, large, global corporations will be able to apply for #patents, giving them significant control over our food supply. https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-europa-geef-de-macht-over-onze-voedselketen-niet-uit-handen~bea1b49a/
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Doing a little course planning or looking for reading list additions? Revisit the Canadian Food Studies book reviews for some inspiration!
Start with Taarini Chopra’s review of Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton.
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.38Then pair it with Annabel Soutar’s theatre play, Seeds, which brings genetically modified crops into the realm of documentary theatre.
https://porteparole.org/en/plays/seeds/#FoodStudies
#FoodBooks
#Theater
#DocumentaryTheatre
#GMOs
#GeneticallyModifiedFoods
#Wheat
#Farming
#Farmers
#Agriculture
#FoodPolitics
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Doing a little course planning or looking for reading list additions? Revisit the Canadian Food Studies book reviews for some inspiration!
Start with Taarini Chopra’s review of Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat by Emily Eaton.
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v1i1.38Then pair it with Annabel Soutar’s theatre play, Seeds, which brings genetically modified crops into the realm of documentary theatre.
https://porteparole.org/en/plays/seeds/#FoodStudies
#FoodBooks
#Theater
#DocumentaryTheatre
#GMOs
#GeneticallyModifiedFoods
#Wheat
#Farming
#Farmers
#Agriculture
#FoodPolitics
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Check out our latest Review—on GLOBAL RESISTANCE to #GMOs, taking in Gates-funded #GMO mozzies being terminated in Burkina Faso, a major victory in the US courts for GMO labelling, more BIG court victories in India and South Africa, and so much more! https://gmwatch.org/en/main-menu/news-menu-title/news-reviews/20610-review-592-resistance-to-gmos
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Modern farming and government support have dramatically increased crop productivity, especially in rice, helping the world avoid food shortages despite climate challenges and opposition to technology like GMOs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/06/world/rice-can-feed-the-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #rice #grain #agriculture #hunger #gmos #food
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Modern farming and government support have dramatically increased crop productivity, especially in rice, helping the world avoid food shortages despite climate challenges and opposition to technology like GMOs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/06/world/rice-can-feed-the-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #rice #grain #agriculture #hunger #gmos #food
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Because nothing screams progress like a 10,000-year-old farming technique dressed up in a lab coat 👨🔬🌾. Meanwhile, Nigeria bravely steps into the future by accepting GMOs—because why let pesky concerns like "safety" or "ethics" get in the way of a good biotech PR campaign? 😂🌍
https://www.asimov.press/p/nigeria-crops #progressivefarming #GMOs #biotechnology #ethics #agricultureinnovation #HackerNews #ngated -
Because nothing screams progress like a 10,000-year-old farming technique dressed up in a lab coat 👨🔬🌾. Meanwhile, Nigeria bravely steps into the future by accepting GMOs—because why let pesky concerns like "safety" or "ethics" get in the way of a good biotech PR campaign? 😂🌍
https://www.asimov.press/p/nigeria-crops #progressivefarming #GMOs #biotechnology #ethics #agricultureinnovation #HackerNews #ngated -
Check out our new Review for all the latest on the deregulation battles over new #GMOs, and the patenting, safety, labelling and detection issues that go with them. Also, a major new #GMO failure, plus who's aboard the new GMO gravy train 🚂🤑🤑🤑 https://gmwatch.org/en/main-menu/news-menu-title/news-reviews/20601-review-590-new-gmos
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Farmers' seeds in danger — worldwide! Alliance of German 🧑🌾 farmers' groups and ✝️ development organisations demands protection of farmers' rights and of #GMO FREE conventional and organic agriculture — from the threat of untested, unlabelled and patented new #GMOs ☣️ https://www.misereor.de/en/presse/press-releases/thanksgiving-farmers-seeds-in-danger-worldwide
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Have you heard our EU Watchdog Radio podcast episode about the push to deregulate #GMOs? Biotech lobbies want to remove safety checks, labelling requirements and oversight for new GMOs — all under the banner of ' #deregulation'. 📲 Listen to it now wherever you get your podcasts.
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In our latest Review we cover all the latest trainwrecks emanating from the agbiotech industry — and there are plenty! We also report on the resistance to #GMOs around the world and the battle for food and seed sovereignty. Check out all the local & global news 👉 https://gmwatch.org/en/main-menu/news-menu-title/news-reviews/20568
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🧬🔬👀 Joint statement (19 June 2025) : the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) and more than 40 organisations demand the publication of detection and identification methods of GMO-NGTs
➡️ https://www.eurovia.org/news/joint-statement-more-than-40-organisations-demand-the-publication-of-detection-and-identification-methods-of-gmo-ngts#StopGMO #StopNewGMO #GMO #NewGMO #NGT #NGTs #GMOs #GeneticallyModifiedOrganisms #NGTDetectionMedthods #NGTIdentificationMedthods #NewGenomicTechniques
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🧬🔬👀 Joint statement (19 June 2025) : European Coordination Via Campesina and more than 40 organisations demand the publication of detection and identification methods of GMO-NGTs
➡️ https://www.eurovia.org/news/joint-statement-more-than-40-organisations-demand-the-publication-of-detection-and-identification-methods-of-gmo-ngts#StopGMO #StopNewGMO #GMO #NewGMO #NGT #NGTs #GMOs #GeneticallyModifiedOrganisms #NGTDetectionMedthods #NGTIdentificationMedthods #NewGenomicTechniques
@testbiotech @corporateeurope @GMWatch @infogm @AbL_Rlp_Saar @Associazione_Rurale_Italiana @greenpeace @alvaroareta @DefendingUNDROP
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🚫 No #GMOs through the back door!
The EU plans to allow untested, unlabelled #newGMOs in our fields and on our plates.
Only the EU🇪🇺 Parliament supports traceability and labelling, but this is now at risk. Email your MEPs now to protect our safety and right to choose 👇
https://demeter.net/no-gmos-through-the-back-door/
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🌾 Bitter harvest 🌾
30 years after the first #GMO crops hit the fields, their promises — like feeding the world and cutting chemicals — mostly failed. This new website exposes the broken biotech promises that were going to solve our food and farming problems. Time for a fairer food system✊
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🌾 Bitter harvest 🌾
30 years after the first #GMO crops hit the fields, their promises — like feeding the world and cutting chemicals — mostly failed. This new website exposes the broken biotech promises that were going to solve our food and farming problems. Time for a fairer food system✊
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𝗘𝗡 | 🧬🤑😈 New patented #GMOs, seed marketing reform: An attack on peasant agriculture in Europe 🚜🌾🇪🇺
➡️ https://www.eurovia.org/publications/new-patented-gmos-seed-marketing-reform-an-attack-on-peasant-agriculture-in-europe𝗘𝗦 | 🧬🤑😈 Nuevos #OMG patentados, reforma de la comercialización de semillas: Un ataque a la agricultura campesina en Europa 🚜🌾🇪🇺
➡️ https://www.eurovia.org/es/publicaciones/nuevos-omg-patentados-reforma-de-la-comercializacion-de-semillas-un-ataque-a-la-agricultura-campesina-en-europa𝗙𝗥 | 🧬🤑😈 Nouveaux #OGM brevetés, réforme de la commercialisation des semences : Une attaque contre l’agriculture paysanne en Europe 🚜🌾🇪🇺
➡️ https://www.eurovia.org/fr/publications/nouveaux-ogm-brevetes-reforme-de-la-commercialisation-des-semences-une-attaque-contre-lagriculture-paysanne-en-europe -
Poland nears breaking the deadlock on gene-edited crops https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/poland-nears-breaking-the-deadlock-on-gene-edited-crops/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it #AgriFood #agriculture #Food #geneediting #GMOs
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Poland gives in and scraps patent restrictions on gene-edited crops https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/poland-gives-in-and-scraps-patent-restrictions-on-gene-edited-crops/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it #geneeditedfood #GMOs #NGTs #Poland
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Poland’s proposal for gene edited crops stirs up legal debate https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/polands-proposal-for-gene-edited-crops-stirs-up-legal-debate/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it #geneticallymodifiedfood #geneticallymodifiedorganisms #GMO #GMOs
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So, it seems that #NavajoAgricultureProductsIndustry stopped using #GMOCorn? I hope so!
Safeguarding Sacred Corn
Valerie Taliman, Sep 12, 2018
"In Indian country, #NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustries, an enterprise of the #NavajoNation, planted a 10-acre test [#GMO] crop four years ago, but ultimately discontinued it because of consumer demands.
"'We planted a test crop on about 10 acres just to see how it would do, but we found out our buyers did not want genetically modified products,' said Albert Etsitty, corn crop manager. 'Consumers were not educated about it and we let it go.'" [Yeah, who gives a shit about violating sacred Diné law, eh? Consume, consume, consume!]
https://ictnews.org/archive/safeguarding-sacred-corn
#CorporateColonialism #GMOs #BigAg
#EndCapitalism #Colonialism #FoodSecurity #Decolonize #TraditionalFoods
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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.
"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
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From 2010: #Navajo Commercial Farm Using #GeneticallyModified Seeds, Despite Global Protests
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, June 16, 2010
"While #IndigenousPeoples protest #Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds around the world, the Navajo Nation’s commercial farm, #NavajoAgriculturalProductsIndustries, continues to use these seeds for commercial crops.
"Haitian farmers are now burning donated Monsanto seeds. In India, thousands of farmers committed suicide after switching from traditional seeds to genetically modified seeds. In Chiapas, Mayan farmers have refused to use the seeds which damaged heritage seed stock. Cross pollination from genetically modified seeds can endanger crops from ancient seed stock in the region.
"#Navajos have long planted century-old corn using traditional #DryFarming. Navajos relied on the stars to know when to plant and sometimes planted in spirals, according to Navajo elders in Rock Point, Arizona.
[...]
"However today the Navajo commercial farm boasts on its website that it plants genetic #HybridCorn seed purchased from '#PioneerSeed Company, #Syngenta Inc., and Monsanto companies." The commercial farm, NAPI, is located on the Navajo Nation near Farmington, N.M., and grows commercial food crops, including corn for potato chips, along with potatoes, wheat and other crops.
"Around the world, #Monsanto and genetically modified seeds have meant death for Indigenous Peoples and their crops."
[...]
"The area of northwest #NewMexico has been known as a 'US Sacrifice Area,' since the 1970s. It is the Navajo people who
have been sacrificed, by way of the US government working in collusion with #corporations and the elected Navajo Nation government.
"While #NAPI continues to use genetically modified seeds on its commercial farm, NAPI also has a #RaytheonMissile manufacturing plant located on the commercial farm where the crops are grown, a fact many would like kept secret. The fact that the Raytheon Missile factory is located on the Navajo farm was censored by Indian Country Today in 2006. At that time, Cuba was expressing interest in purchasing food products from NAPI and Indian Country Today editors demanded
that no research be done on Raytheon's missile plant at the farm or any possible pollutants discharged from Raytheon."Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/06/navajo-commercial-farm-using.html
#CorporateColonialism #GMOs #BigAg
#EndCapitalism #Colonialism #Decolonize #TraditionalFoods
#Capitalism #CulturalGenocide
