What­ev­er hap­pened to GM Gold­en Rice? And wasn’t GM salmon sup­posed to rev­o­lu­tionise aqua­cul­ture? Three decades after the first GMO crops were plant­ed, Save Our Seeds, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with GMWatch, with con­tri­bu­tions from Beyond GM, explores the fate of eight GMO promis­es once pre­sent­ed as game-chang­ers. The con­clu­sion: bold claims, dis­mal deliv­ery. In 1995, the US Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture approved…

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More than 60,000 cit­i­zens have tak­en part in a post­card cam­paign organ­ised by Bavar­i­an organ­ic farm­ing and envi­ron­men­tal organ­i­sa­tions against the dereg­u­la­tion of plants engi­neered with so-called ‘new genom­ic tech­niques’ (NGT). The ‘No free flight for GMOs’ cam­paign called for manda­to­ry labelling, trace­abil­i­ty and risk assess­ment for NGT plants.

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