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Beyond GM @beyond-gm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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...
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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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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The hype never ends...Researchers claim 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...
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
De-extinction promises wonder, but asks us to confront harder truths. What does it mean to “love” nature in an age of extinction — and who bears the risks of resurrecting what we once destroyed? A thoughtful read: abiggerconversation.org/love-in-the-... @mickeygjerris.bsky.social
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Love in the Age of De-extinction
We live in a century shaped by loss – of habitats, species and ecological certainty. The idea of reviving extinct creatures can be seductive. But resurrection isn’t just scientific: it is deeply moral...
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
A pretty terrible proposal for the EU and yet "Amazingly, it still manages to be more transparent than the UK’s weird 'precision breeding' regime.." Says it all.
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
To be clear, the government is implementing regulations in which it has tied its own hands to prevent any safety testing of ‘precision bred’ GMOs that wouldn’t apply to normal, non-novel foods. Makes it extremely difficult to act if independent evidence demonstrates a problem.
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If we consider reimagining legal relationships with nature to create new international crimes (ecocide) or granting personhood to rivers & forests then enslavement of nature should also be part of the discussion. The domination is real, the harm measurable www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Should we treat environmental crime more like murder?
Serial killers and violent criminals dominate the headlines. What if we covered ecocide and pollution in the same way?
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This really is a defining choice for the IUCN: do we stand by the first principle of conservation - to protect nature - or quietly acquiesce to the techno-capitalist drive to redesign it?
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Beyond GM @beyond-gm.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
In opposition, Labour was deeply critical of the lack of transparency around #GMO precision-bred organisms. In power, they have ushered in one of the least transparent & most liberal regimes in the world. #StopHiddenGMOs. DONATE to our legal fund now crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hidden-gmos
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Beyond GM @beyond-gm.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The UK government doesn't want you to know if you are eating or growing GMOs. But 8 in 10 in the UK think this is wrong & want to see all GMOs labelled. We're challenging the government to #StopHiddenGMOs. Support our legal action crowdfunder today crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hidden-gmos
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
So important to DONATE to support this legal action www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Folks, please donate today to this important cause. Help hold the UK government to account for its GMO deregulation misadventure. Thanks!
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This is important folks and it is a real David and Goliath fight. Please support it by donating and helping to spread the word far and wide! www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Devolved nations have clearly rejected the deregulatory #GMO free-for-all of Westminster's Genetic Technology Act. #Scotland, #Wales & #NorthernIreland have options/opportunities to forge a more cautious & thorough regulatory path. Will they grasp these? beyond-gm.org/divided-king...
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Divided Kingdom: Devolved Nations and the Genetic Technology Act
While Westminster has framed the ongoing discussion about precision bred food around what devolved nations cannot do in opposition to the Genetic Technology Act, these nations have the opportunity to ...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
In my latest piece for @science.org, I ask how we should think about experiments that take place outside the lab. It begins here, in St Ives, Cornwall. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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a large body of water with waves coming in and out of it
ALT: a large body of water with waves coming in and out of it
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My end-of-year reflection on why the concept of “Frankenfoods” may have been a more apt metaphor about science and responsibility than either side of the debate may have realised. abiggerconversation.org/frankenfoods...
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Frankenfoods – Chewing Over a Polarised Debate
In 2024 we briefly considered – but rejected – a cheeky suggestion to bring back the provocative term ‘Frankenfoods’. The days of that kind of polemic may have passed but, as we note in our year-end r...
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ecoreflections.bsky.social @ecoreflections.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fab to have been awarded Slow Food Person of the year! Thank you @slowfooduk.bsky.social !
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