Masters of Health Magazine December 2023 | Page 57

GE Soil Microbes Are New Targets

for Agrichemical Companies

Biotech companies, including the largest agrichemical corporations—Bayer-Monsanto, Syngenta, and BASF—are developing genetically engineered (GE) microbes (bacteria, viruses and fungi) for use in agriculture. Millions of acres of U.S. farmland are already seeing the application of this technology. The release of live GE microbes in agriculture represents an unprecedented open-air genetic experiment.

So risky, so arrogant - knowing the many roles that microbes have played in the emergence of life and their huge importance everywhere, from our guts to all ecosystems. And we don’t yet understand a fraction of it! Yet, the technology keeps developing, in pursuit of the almighty dollar.  READ MORE

Where is the testing? Where is the regulation?  These questions without good answers compelled us here at IRT to launch a new campaign that we are announcing today. And you can help.