Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) : Campaigning for Food Sovereignty and Environmental Justice, a project on the shared platform of Makeway.
One of the central issues of our successful High Court challenge of the Genetic Technology Regulations was the government’s lack of meaningful engagement with the public and meaningful action to ensure that public views shaped the Regulations. This story in the Ecologist provides some fascinating insights into citizen views - will government (& the FSA) pay attention now? Read and share https://t.co/Xcd0HLSPpL
We're celebrating! 🎉🎉 We've had a significant win in our high court challenge the precision bred GMO regulations. The court has ruled that the Defra Minister's decision not to label PBOs in the food chain was unlawful. Read the full story: https://t.co/Tr4DdgMDm6
The GE purple "Empress" tomato = four genetically engineered whole foods #GMOs sometimes appearing in produce sections in Canada: GE purple tomato, GE sweetcorn, GE papaya, GE pink pineapple. @VitalityOnline@CPMA_ACDFL#CPMA2026#freshproduce#labelGMOs https://t.co/8uSb8kGPQB
Government closure of Canadian General Standards Board without new standard for voluntary #GMO labelling? “The biotech industry wasn’t pleased with the revised standard because they wanted to label gene-edited foods as non-genetically engineered.” Release: https://t.co/RTqtZSOIYl
Groups demand mandatory labelling of #GMOs as Health Canada commits to the "highest level of transparency" on recently approved genetically engineered pig. Press release: https://t.co/pKqmxVCtBt
A gene-edited pig has been approved for eating in Canada but if it enters the market the meat from these genetically modified organisms #GMOs will not be labelled. Take action today at https://t.co/pGp23AQDcQ
Health Canada has just approved a gene-edited pig for human consumption. The food products will not be labelled. Demand mandatory labelling at https://t.co/pGp23AQ5ni
Detection of genome-edited organisms with subtle mutations is possible. The method was able to detect the presence of a new #GMO even at very low levels of 0.9-0.1%. This would be sensitive enough to detect cases of unintended contamination. https://t.co/tRx0QfoKAn
Farmers in Canada are concerned about #GMO vegetable seeds that could soon be on the market. Biotech companies are preparing to sell #GMO seeds to small growers and home gardeners for the first time. Press release: https://t.co/SVTSWwceqS
📢Latest Third World Resurgence, Issue No. #364
Issue’s contents: Sowing trouble: Seed systems, farmers’ rights and food sovereignty under threat. from @3rdworldnetwork https://t.co/SNkLY2izdA
Influential study on #glyphosate safety retracted 25 yrs after publication. The widely cited study, which concluded glyphosate was safe, has just been officially disavowed. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by #Monsanto https://t.co/TnQl71p0aV