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@gmwatch.bsky.socialNick Mole—from Pesticide Action Network UK, which wants to see #glyphosate banned—understands officials are considering a one-year extension while the UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement develops, after which GB would align with EU rules on #pesticides. www.fwi.co.uk/news/glyphos...
@corporateeurope.orgReposted by @gmwatch.bsky.socialGreat to see FT picking up our report on how pesticide industry lobby have been watering down EU pesticide rules
@gmwatch.bsky.socialBayer to supply Pentagon with “critical military material” linked to humanitarian atrocities. Bayer CropScience is not just Bayer’s agricultural division but a dual-use chemical juggernaut that sits at the very top of the US military’s white phosphorus supply chain. gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
@corporateeurope.orgReposted by @gmwatch.bsky.social🚨 NEW REPORT: The pesticide industry didn't just lobby on the EU's Food & Feed Omnibus. More like they co-wrote it. This report shows how.
Check it out 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/10/f...
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@gmwatch.bsky.socialWageningen University “should not speak on behalf of everyone on the issue of gene editing.” 42 Wageningen researchers object to the use of the university’s name in submission supporting the deregulation of new GMOs. www.gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
@gmwatch.bsky.socialEU Commission's plan to fast-track releases of #GMO micro-organisms threatens human health and microbiome gmwatch.org/en/latest-ne...
@gmwatch.bsky.social#Glyphosate Science: Cancer, neurotoxicity & endocrine disruption. This Oct. 6 webinar features Dr. Daniele Mandrioli on recent findings from the Global Glyphosate Study, and Dr. Lianne Sheppard on the findings presented at the Seattle Glyphosate Symposium healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...
@gmwatch.bsky.social"Bayer produced chemical weapons in World War I, supplied the Nazis' arsenals in World War II, and continued its murderous business practices even after that. It's high time the corporation finally broke with this disastrous tradition." — Coalition against Bayer Dangers @cbg-network.bsky.social
@gmwatch.bsky.socialBoth #glyphosate and white phosphorous have been used by Israel as chemical weapons in its current conflicts, leading to accusations of war crimes. And Bayer is understood to be the sole US producer of the elemental phosphorus used in the production of the white phosphorus munitions involved.
@gmwatch.bsky.socialTrump-ally De la Espriella is trying to bring aerial spraying back in Colombia. To try and dodge criticism, they're substituting glufosinate for #glyphosate. But glufosinate is linked to serious concerns regarding reproductive and developmental toxicity, and hence it is banned in the EU.
@gmwatch.bsky.socialThe court ruling has brought renewed attention to Colombia’s long-running debate over aerial eradication. Aerial spraying with #glyphosate was suspended by a court in 2015 and definitively 🧑⚖️barred in 2017. But the Trump administration has been pressing Colombia to resume spraying 🛩️☠️☠️
@gmwatch.bsky.socialColombian judge halts government aerial spraying plan in Putumayo—province in the Andean-Amazonian foothills—citing concerns over its effects on farming communities and the environment. The pilot project was to spray glufosinate, a herbicide banned in Europe. www.telesurenglish.net/colombiajudg...
@gmwatch.bsky.social"The victims no longer want to die in silence": cancer patients and farmers are trying to mobilize public opinion to phase out pesticides. Thousands protest near Syngenta factory to demand the phasing out of #pesticides. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
@gmwatch.bsky.socialReleasing defective #GMO chestnuts risks contaminating wild chestnuts with irreversible traits. “We’re in uncharted territory…it could affect the fitness of the [wild] trees or how they interact with the ecosystem. You don’t know until you do these studies”—Michael Hansen. No such studies were done.
@gmwatch.bsky.socialTrump’s USDA Gambles America’s Forests on a Defective #GMO Chestnut Tree. The decision is legally indefensible, ecologically irresponsible, and almost certain to be challenged in federal court—where, on the merits, it should be overturned. www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/02/t...
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@gmwatch.bsky.socialCanadian, European and U.S. regulators seem to exhibit the same preference for company data and dismissive attitude to peer-reviewed papers. For instance, a report on #glyphosate from Health Canada, prepared with the EPA, acknowledged that Health Canada relies mainly on “seller-sponsored science.”
@gmwatch.bsky.socialMonsanto’s lawyers argued that the EPA “exhaustively studied” glyphosate but the EPA appears to have primarily made its decisions based on confidential data and studies provided by the companies, and largely ignored studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
@gmwatch.bsky.socialWhat the U.S. Supreme Court’s pesticide ruling means for gardeners and farm workers. The U.S. Supreme Court was encumbered by blinders, idiosyncrasies of constitutional and congressional law, and injudicious reasoning, says Canadian legal expert. theconversation.com/what-the-u-s...
@gmwatch.bsky.socialFarmers unite worldwide against what they call ‘chemical colonisation’. Farmers and activists around the world are mobilising on Saturday for an international day of action against pesticides, which they say are damaging their health and destroying their livelihoods. www.rfi.fr/en/internati...