News and comment on genetically modified foods and their associated pesticides 
- 41. US government paid PR firm to track and vilify critics of GMOs and pesticides
- (Latest News)
- ... that in the case of GMWatch, for instance, the three items quoted in this section of our profile are by Mark Lynas, Kevin Folta and Stephan Neidenbach – all people whose activities we have criticised and ...
- Created on 01 November 2024
- 42. Meet the journalist behind the “sleazy sleight of hand” on Golden Rice
- (Latest News)
- ... talked up the “enormous potential” of Golden Rice and insisted no one was “going to make any money out of (it)”. And Dubock’s opinion, McKie told us, was “shared by Mark Lynas, an environmental campaigner ...
- Created on 10 June 2024
- 43. Review 566 - Techno-Food Part 1
- (News review)
- ... – the ecomodernist group Mark Lynas co-founded – is behind the Fund the Future of Food! campaign. With the help of George Monbiot’s endorsement, its petition calling for “moonshot investment” in so-called ...
- Created on 25 March 2024
- 44. New men at GMO advisory body ACRE appear as conflicted as those they replaced
- (Latest News)
- ... the wheat to make it express an alarm pheromone, in an attempt to repel aphid pests. Despite pro-GMO propagandist Mark Lynas hailing the wheat as "a turning point for GMOs" in terms of public accept ...
- Created on 07 February 2024
- 45. “Laureates’ letter” misled signatories about GMO regulation in Europe, has industry’s fingerprints all over it
- (Latest News)
- ... and Senior Strategist, Mark Lynas, has also been repeatedly called out for making inaccurate, misleading, and even totally fabricated claims. Misinformation It is perhaps not surprising then that ...
- Created on 29 January 2024
- 46. Review 562 – Lobbywatch – Gates, Monbiot And RePlanet
- (News review)
- ... AND ASTROTURF). The common denominator in all this is Mark Lynas, Monbiot’s friend, RePlanet’s chief strategist, and the Alliance’s leading GMO promoter. In Europe, Bill Gates, Lynas, the Alliance and ...
- Created on 14 December 2023
- 47. The many problems with George Monbiot’s bullish backing for biotech-brewed bacterial banquets
- (2023)
- ... instance, United Nations moratoria on geoengineering and Terminator seeds. It’s an understatement to say that he is highly regarded, with even Mark Lynas, the ecomodernist critic of the environment movement, praising ...
- Created on 28 October 2023
- 48. George Monbiot’s ally RePlanet accused of smelling “like astroturf”
- (2023)
- ... wave of conspiracism” in its criticism of his involvement with Mark Lynas and the rebranded ecomodernist group RePlanet, who promote nuclear power, GMOs, and synthetic food. Monbiot took exception to ...
- Created on 03 October 2023
- 49. Review 553 – Lobbywatch, Human GM, COVID Origins
- (News review)
- ... ive agriculture”. What makes this particularly shameless is that the Alliance previously published a vicious attack on agroecology. The article, by its comms and research lead Mark Lynas, backfired ba ...
- Created on 08 September 2023
- 50. Review 547 – Fake Meat, Corporate Crimes and Other News
- (News review)
- ... Davis Stone from his witty and incisive article, “The Dubious Virtue of Apostasy”, about how Mark Lynas “saw the GMO light and is being amply rewarded for it”. Now Stone has written a book, The Agricultural ...
- Created on 19 June 2023
- 51. Review 544 – Lobbywatch and Human GM
- (News review)
- ... a pathological liar? Amid rising concerns about fake news and misinformation, the Gates-funded Alliance for Science has taken to promoting their long-time comms strategist Mark Lynas as an expert ...
- Created on 26 April 2023