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A worldwide shift for gene-edited foods.
NEW U.K REGULATIONS
The U.K is poised to open up its borders and supermarket shelves to new forms of genetically engineered ‘precision bred’ organisms.
In May, the U.K parliament published draft legislation that will enable a new regulatory system, as set out in the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act initially passed in 2023.
Now, the approval of regulations will bring it into force in November – allowing genetically altered food to hit U.K supermarket shelves as soon as 2026.
The products are labelled as ‘precision bred’ rather than ‘genetically modified’ – described as containing genetic features which could have (theoretically) been produced by traditional breeding processes – even if there are thousands of genetic variations inserted into them.
‘Precision breeding’ will fast-track the introduction of multiple traits, reducing the time that it takes to bring new crops to market.
A true era of Frankenstein Foods.
It aligns England with countries such as Argentina, Australia, Japan, Canada and the U.S, where tools such as gene-editing are used to develop ‘nutritious and climate-ready crops’.
But despite widespread support from the ‘experts’, there is confusion among key decision-makers about how it will work – and whether the safeguards are strong enough.
Leonie Nimmo, Executive Director at GM Freeze, says they are concerned the legislation doesn’t provide an upper-limit on the number of genetic modifications which are permitted.
She said this after attending the latest meeting this month of ACRE – the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment – on the subject.
“There isn’t an upper threshold – but the burden of proof is with the product’s applicant to make it plausible that it could be done in a traditional breeding programme,” she commented.
“At what point do you draw the line? There could be thousands of genetic modifications in a plant, plausibly permitted under the new rules”.
This new war, waged by the GM food lobby, has not just been limited to England or the U.K, but has swept across many parts of Europe as well.
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All over the world, we are witnessing a systematic transformation of our food industry that will blur the lines between natural and ‘modified’ produce even further.
Make no mistake, our Pacific region is also involved in this vast GM transition.
THE GM TAKEOVER
Despite being far away from both America and the U.K, in typical fashion, we are also adopting the same type of radical guidelines in our Pacific region countries.
It began in Australia when we deregulated CRISPR gene-editing methods for numerous products at the end of 2019, in a move experts said threatened organic production.
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This was the first step.
Since then, we have undergone a similar regulatory shift.
For instance, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) recently approved updated definitions for genetically modified food in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.
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Any foods made using new breeding techniques like genome editing will now not be classified as GM food if the genetic change doesn’t introduce novel DNA.
In February, the NZ government also confirmed plans to end the country’s nearly 30-year ban on genetically modified organisms outside the lab.
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During the national debate, GE-Free New Zealand spokesperson Jon Carapiet said the eased labelling requirements took informed choices away from the consumer.
“It’s really fundamentally unethical to take away the ordinary consumer’s choice in the supermarkets,” Carapiet said.
“It’s all about trust, and to say ‘we’re not gonna even trust you to make your own decisions anymore’… is really wrong.”
The GM lobby is threatening to completely transform the very fundamentals of nature itself.
This includes a campaign to alter everything, such as the introduction of edited soil microbes, ‘smart seeds’, ‘smart plants’, lab-grown food, and more.
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Truly Orwellian times we are living in ladies and gentlemen.
Is it real food?
Has it been stitched together a million times via genetic editing?
Who knows!
Who cares?!
This is the Australian way as we enter the second half of the decade.
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None of these GM/”precision-bred” plants are needed. No doubt they will be described as “safe and effective”…after the past 5.5 years, anyone believing that would have to be hopelessly naive.
Where is the list of repetitive crop failures and subsequent food crises that would provide some justification for Frankenstein foods, in Australia, Europe et al.
That’s right, there isn’t any. All there is, is the inevitable made up, imaginary, problem-reaction-solution to justify the control of the food supply.
And that next point about dystopian control should be pretty obvious by now, to only about 15% of the population. Which is why we’re f#$%%^@ doomed.