Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/ Does it arrive as a surprise that the GMO ecosystem is a rigged game? One in which the Ag Science complex is empirically vested in enslaving your food and you in the same bio-economic power-play, wherever you eat? The US leads the way, but the con is very deliberately global.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 7 May 2023

@_ACBIO The real issue? *Why* have "South African biosafety regulators failed in the exercise of [their] biosafety oversight role"? As your 2020 report, 'GMOs in South Africa 23 years on', succinctly clarifies, "essentially the system is rigged." Regulatory capture, a global corruption.

Secrecy regarding members of the advisory committee

Concerns about vested interests in decision-making as well as questions regarding scientific capacity to assess and apply the latest scientific information.

Regulators inherent bias toward corporate science and a tendency to label independent science as “junk”and disregard lay opinions that may speak to a wide array of concerns, e.g. seed sovereignty, cultural or personal preferences, ethics, etc.
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Secrecy regarding members of the advisory committee Concerns about vested interests in decision-making as well as questions regarding scientific capacity to assess and apply the latest scientific information. Regulators inherent bias toward corporate science and a tendency to label independent science as “junk”and disregard lay opinions that may speak to a wide array of concerns, e.g. seed sovereignty, cultural or personal preferences, ethics, etc.

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Quoted by@GMWatch @gmwatch @timothyawise @grain_org @NavdanyaInt I'm speaking at this event in S. Oregon tomorrow, in one of only two counties Stateside to ban GMO seed. Curious if you can recommend any recent deets or insights germane to regulatory/epistemological capture?