Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

What does the science say? Worldwide 'regulatory capture' is central to and fundamentally indistinguishable from global GMO technology advancement: "In the final phase, even the staff of the agency comes to be selected from among the ranks of the interest groups it regulates."

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UK ministers are advised on the risks to health and the environment from the release of #GMOs by a committee chaired by a former biotech industry employee who co-founded an industry-funded lobby group "to make the case for GM crops & foods" gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…
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Copy of tweet from @gmwatch UK ministers are advised on the risks to health and the environment from the release of #GMOs by a committee chaired by a former biotech industry employee who co-founded an industry-funded lobby group "to make the case for GM crops & foods" gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…

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Every other member, i.e. 100%, of the UK Govt's statutory advisors on the release of #GMOs also has potential or actual conflicts of interest. In fact, their list of interests reads like Who's Who of the British biotech industry!
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Copy of tweet from @gmwatch Every other member, i.e. 100%, of the UK Govt's statutory advisors on the release of #GMOs also has potential or actual conflicts of interest. In fact, their list of interests reads like Who's Who of the British biotech industry!

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 31 Aug 2022

@NavdanyaInt @drvandanashiva And, of course, from the lowest fieldwork to the highest levels of the scientific-industrial complex, the absolute insistence on the legitimacy and authority of rank moral bankruptcy proves essential to sustaining the supremacist violence of a global extinction tyranny.

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1/ The average life expectancy of a farm worker in the United States is forty-nine years. (Bugarin and Lopez, “Farm workers in California.” California State Library. California Research Bureau. 1998.) Why? We know why.
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Copy of tweet: 1/ The average life expectancy of a farm worker in the United States is forty-nine years. (Bugarin and Lopez, “Farm workers in California.” California State Library. California Research Bureau. 1998.) Why? We know why.

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