Sustainable Pulse

Safe Food Advocacy Europe (SAFE), a European consumer organization specialized in food policy, recently called for the protection of organic food from New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) in the European Union . SAFE stated that they regret recent legislative steps to make NGTs, such as gene-edited crops, free from mandatory requirements applicable to other genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and warns...

Recent analysis of official government data by PAN UK reveals that the amount of glyphosate being applied to UK crops has risen from 200 metric tonnes per year in 1990 to more than 2,200 tonnes in 2024, an increase of 1000%. Major increases have been seen on a wide range of crops. For example, more than 66 tonnes of glyphosate were applied to British potatoes in 2024, up from 1.5 tonnes in 1990....