Digital agriculture is often sold as inevitable progress, but behind the “cloud” lie corporate power grabs, exploited mine and data workers, and huge water and energy costs – raising urgent questions about who digitalisation really serves. abiggerconversation.org/caught-in-th...

Caught in the Algorithm

Digital agriculture is often sold as inevitable progress, but behind the "cloud" lie corporate power grabs, exploited mine and data workers, and huge water and energy costs – raising urgent questions ...

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We wrote to PM Andy Burnham about why food sufficiency, rather than economic growth, was the basis of genuine food security. The letter never made it to his desk. It was diverted to an anonymous staffer (or AI bot) in Defra for a reply. Here’s why that’s a problem: beyond-gm.org/so-thats-a-n...

So, that’s a no to food sufficiency then?

Beyond GM asked Prime Minister Andy Burnham to put food sufficiency at the heart of food policy. His office passed our letter onto an anonymous Defra staffer who ignored the proposal, revealing instea...

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How will seed in the UK be impacted by the Genetic Technology Regulations? Join us for this Seed TV/Seed Sovereignty webinar Precision breeding, patents and the future of seed: the UK’s new genetic technology regime. Thu 3 Sep 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM. Please share. tickettailor.com/events/thega...

Defra’s Farming Roadmap uses welcome nature-friendly language while directing funding and momentum towards technology-led growth, leaving organic and agroecological systems underfunded and governance questions over engineering biology and planning reform unexamined. beyond-gm.org/defras-farmi...

Defra’s Farming Roadmap: nature-friendly language, technology-led future?

Defra’s Farming Roadmap uses welcome nature-friendly language while directing funding and momentum towards technology-led growth, leaving organic and agroecological systems underfunded and governance ...

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Thanks @ukcolumn.bsky.social for giving our Director Pat Thomas @ecoreflections.bsky.social a chance for a deeper discussion about the trajectory of genetic technologies in food & farming, reflections on our recent judicial review & thoughts on citizen action www.ukcolumn.org/video/mythbu...

Mythbusting the Food Industry | UK Column Interviews

Pat Thomas, Director of the campaign group Beyond GM, talks to Charles Malet about her organisation’s recent High Court victory concerning food labelling.

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High Court rules previous laws and regulations allowing gene-edited products into the food supply without labelling are unlawful and irrational. A Huge thanks to Beyond GM, for fighting for this judicial review and congratulations on the successful outcome.

A thoughtful and important read. Sustainable Food Trust's CEO Patrick Holden, co-claimant in our judicial review, asks why the same concerns about transparency, choice and democratic oversight he was fighting for in the 1990s are still being dismissed today. sustainablefoodtrust.org/news-views/l...

Looking back, looking forward: New GMOs and old lessons | Sustainable Food Trust

Patrick Holden reflects on why he chose to speak out during a recent judicial review challenging regulations that remove labelling and traceability from ‘precision bred’ organisms (PBOs) and the impor...

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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: beyond-gm.org/victory-high...

Victory! High Court Finds Government Failed to Properly Assess Gene-Editing Deregulation

A High Court legal challenge led by Beyond GM has found that the Government failed to understand the significant consequences – for farmers, businesses, consumers and the organic sector – of removing ...

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Excellent long-read in the Ecologist from the Agtivist Agency exposes the conflicts, uncertainties and lack of transparency around deregulating gene-edited farm animals - a move that could see industrial animal agriculture further embedded in our food system theecologist.org/2026/may/28/...

Gene edited meat 'on dinner plates soon'

England could see meat from gene edited animals sold in shops very soon. What are the ethical implications of this technology?

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It was an intense couple of days in court for us this week. Importantly, it revealed just how fragile and contradictory the government’s position really is. Read more about what we heard and why this case matters. mailchi.mp/beyond-gm/gm... #StopHiddenGMOs

“The judicial review being heard in May is not a rearguard action by a handful of obsessives. It is…a serious argument, mounted by serious people and serious lawyers, with serious evidence.” So where is everybody? asks Patrick Holden of Sustainable Food Trust sustainablefoodtrust.org/news-views/t...

The new fight against GMOs – where is everybody? | Sustainable Food Trust

Reflecting on current situation in the Middle East and the subsequent impact on food security around the world, the SFT's research team imagine what a future food system that's more resilient to globa...

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Read our latest newsletter for updates on our judicial review of the Genetic Technology Regulations mailchi.mp/beyond-gm/co.... If you think all GMOs should be traceable in our environment and our food please donate to our legal fund today: www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...

Two new Beyond GM briefings explore the likely next stages for the UK’s deregulation of gene editing: farm animals and microorganisms. But the picture is considerably more complicated than the government may want us to believe. beyond-gm.org/gene-editing...

Gene Editing Deregulation – What Comes Next?

Two new Beyond GM briefings explore the likely next stages for the UK's deregulation of gene editing: farm animals and microorganisms. But the picture is considerably more complicated than the governm...

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The High Court will hear the @beyond-gm.bsky.social challenge to the Govt's deregulation of gene-edited food and farming at a hearing May 12-13th 2026. You can donate to Beyond GM's crowdfunder to help them cover their legal fees. Pls help them reach their goal! www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...

Judicial Review: Stop hidden GMOs entering our food and environment

We are acting with a group of citizens, farmers, food producers and retailers to ensure novel genetically modified organisms are visible and traceable in the environment and food system.

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Is technology always beneficial? Is innovation always benign? Another important contribution to the agritech debate.

IPES-Food@ipes-food.org · 8mo ago

🚨Just launched: #HeadInTheCloud ☁️ Who controls #innovation in agriculture? BigTech + BigAg are reshaping farming through AI & digital platforms - investing 💰billions. But we’re betting on the wrong model. Let’s reclaim innovation for people & the planet. 📖Read: ipes-food.org/report/head-...

Researchers say that precision bred GMO dandelions will be “enabling us to build a new, domestic rubber supply that strengthens UK resilience”. Of the 30 million metric tonnes of rubber consumed globally each year, 0% comes from dandelions… defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/02/f...

1/ A new UK Government report treats biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as a national security risk. We’ll get to that in a moment... First, some context on how UK policy ended up pulling in the opposite direction… 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/p...

The Citizens’ Charter for Transparency, Accountability & Choice in the Use of Genetic Technologies sets out clear principles for how #GMOs – incl. gene editing & “precision breeding” – should be governed in the UK. Read & use it to inform your choices/actions: beyond-gm.org/citizens-cha...

Citizens' Charter on Genetic Technologies Upholds Choice and Transparency

A new Citizens’ Charter for Transparency, Accountability and Choice in the Use of Genetic Technologies has been launched, setting out clear principles for how genetic engineering – including gene edit...

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New research shows gene editing can cause lasting disruption to genome function through “chromatin fatigue” – even when DNA appears to have repaired itself – raising serious questions about UK deregulation, which assumes precision equals safety. beyond-gm.org/gene-editing...

Gene Editing Can Cause Significant DNA Damage: Here’s Why it Matters for UK Regulation

New research shows gene editing can cause lasting disruption to genome function through “chromatin fatigue” – even when DNA appears to have repaired itself – raising serious questions about UK deregul...

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Genetic engineering can't be contained in living systems. Engineered genes & microbes inevitably spread, exposing regulatory blind spots & challenging assumptions of control, precaution & accountability. We'll be keeping an eye on 'wild' GMOs from 2026 onwards. beyond-gm.org/editing-natu...

Editing Nature - Examining the Illusion of Control

Genetic engineering cannot be contained in living systems. From bees to crops, engineered genes and microbes inevitably spread, exposing regulatory blind spots and challenging assumptions of control, ...

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‘Tis the season…🌲🎅 If you believe that we have a right to know when there are ‘precision bred’ GMOs in our foods or fields please support our judicial review. We are challenging the government on behalf of the 8 in 10 who demand to know. DONATE today www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...

We've spent years directly challenging the FSA's misleading representation of precision-bred GMOs as 'essentially natural'. Any plan to further mislead citizens – using taxpayer money to fund citizen 'education' programmes – is despicable. www.food.gov.uk/board-papers...

1/ Ahoy, me hearties…This week’s Lords reading of the UK’s Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) Bill on marine plunder…er, conservation…was revealing and worth a deeper dive. Here’s a🧵

A sweeping deal to deregulate new GMOs has been proposed in the EU, yet civil society still secured some key concessions – seed labelling, public registers and full GMO regulation for higher-risk plants. See next steps & comparison with UK regulations: beyond-gm.org/new-eu-propo...

New EU Proposal Supports Hidden GMOs

A sweeping deal to deregulate new GMOs has been proposed in the EU, yet civil society still secured some key concessions – seed labelling, public registers and full regulation for higher-risk plants –...

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Biotech companies - and the government - call gene edited/'precision bred'/GMO plants, foods and animals “natural.” The only thing “natural” about these #GMOs is how naturally the spin keeps spinning.

UK conservation groups supporting GMOs as a 'conservation tool' — despite risks & no proven benefits? Decisions with big implications for nature demand accountability & informed, equitable debate, not mute acquiescence to biotech narratives. Who voted? See: beyond-gm.org/iucn-votes-o...

New Genetic Technology Regulations, in force from today, ignore the truth about what precision-bred GMOs are. That's why we have initiated a judicial review. Every donation moves us closer to a food system built on honesty and transparency: www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...

1/ Definitely a #NotSoFunFact for the devolved nations that want to keep their food supply #GMO Free. You can read more about how the Genetic Technology Act has divided the country and what devolved nations can do about it here: beyond-gm.org/divided-king...

1/ Earlier this year, in the final days of the parliamentary debates on the new Genetic Technology Regulations, Ministers and Peers stood in Parliament and sold deregulation of genetically modified precision bred organisms (GM-PBOs) as an economic miracle...a🧵(link at the end)

In 2023 when new legislation came in, the UK Government estimated 1-2 field trials of #GMO 'precision bred' crops in England per year. Of the 33 trials that have since been conducted, 22 are still live. You pay for it, but you have no right to know about it #NotSoFunFact