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The reckless proliferation of genetically engineered crops, specifically
designed to be used in tandem with increasingly deadly chemicals, has wreaked
havoc with human health, and the health of our entire ecosystem.

Now the worst of the worst possible uses for genetic engineering has come home
to roost. And it was totally avoidable.

As sane scientists have warned for decades, researchers in labs around the world
are employing genetic engineering technologies, largely in secret, for no other
purpose than to create “novel” viruses, for which humans have no immunity.

These novel viruses are engineered to be as infectious to humans, and as
transmissible, as possible.

Despite an ongoing cover-up by government authorities, the biotech industry, the
military industrial complex and the mass media, there is growing scientific consensus
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The creation of COVID-19, engineered by repeatedly “passaging” a bat virus
through animal and human cells and/or genetic engineering or splicing specific
genetic sequences into the virus, violated a ban
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Why is gain-of-function research allowed, despite the known, potentially
catastrophic risks? How do we end it—before it ends us?

Read ‘COVID-19—Reckless ‘Gain-of-Function’ Experiments Lie at the Root of the
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#BOYCOTTBIGMEAT13 REASONS

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Last week, we officially kicked off our #BoycottBigMeat
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So far, about 60,000 people have watched our virtual launch. If you missed it,
you can watch the full panel discussion on Facebook
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Now that the #BoycottBigMeat campaign lift-off is behind us, we’re moving on to
next steps. These include a series of panels on individual issues—climate, water
quality, public health, policy reforms and many others—that intersect with
large-scale industrial meat production.

Up first, on August 25, will be a panel of guests who will explain why, even
though they are vegans or vegetarians, they support regenerative ranchers.

Meanwhile, we hope you’ll check out our list
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As we roll out this campaign over the coming months, we’ll add in-depth research
for each of the 13 points . . . one more reason to stay tuned into this
campaign.

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MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTO'HEAR, HEAR!'

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It’s tough to imagine any scenario in which someone with terminal cancer “wins.”

But DeWayne Lee Johnson
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prevailed over one of the worst corporations
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As U.S. Right to Know’s Carey Gillam reports
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victory notched by a California school groundskeeper who alleged exposure to
Monsanto’s glyphosate
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The court did say that the amount awarded to Johnson should be lowered, to $20.5
million. But the court also said this:

“In our view, Johnson presented abundant—and certainly substantial— evidence
that glyphosate, together with the other ingredients in Roundup
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Roundup products are capable of causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma . . . and caused
Johnson’s cancer in particular.”

“Expert after expert.” And still, we have to fight this battle. Thank you, Mr.
Johnson, for taking on the poison cartel.

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When Congressman and longtime civil-rights activist John Lewis died last week,
words he spoke a few years ago popped up in many of the articles written about
him:

"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is
not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a
lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble,
necessary trouble."

If ever there were a time to make noise, and get in good—and necessary—trouble,
that time is now.

The battle for social, environmental and economic justice, the battle for safe
food and safe streets, the demands for an end to factory farming and genetic
engineering—and for a real plan to reverse global warming—have always required a long-haul mentality.

In the face of a global pandemic, a disintegrating democracy and an imploding
economy—all of which intersect in some way with our food and farming system, and
the policies that shape that system—we find ourselves engaged in what is truly
the “struggle of a lifetime.”

Thank you for being in this struggle with us. Thank you for continuing to
support our work, even in these most difficult of times.

We share your sense of urgency. We promise to keep making noise, to keep pushing
for the radical, not incremental change, we believe is possible. We invite you
to get into good, necessary trouble, with us.

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VIDEO OF THE WEEKWISDOM

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When she first heard of COVID-19, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim said to herself, “Wow,
what is this thing? If it comes to my community we will be all done.”



Ibrahim is an award-winning environmental activist and indigenous woman from the
Mbororo nomadic herding community in the Republic of Chad, a landlocked country
in north-central Africa.

Most of her community lives on Lake Chad, which thanks to global warming, has
lost 90 percent of its water since 1960. That, Ibrahim says, makes her
community—already living on the frontlines of climate change—highly vulnerable
during a pandemic:

“We can't ask people who don’t have clean water to drink, to wash their hands
every hour,” Ibrahim says.

In the latest “ Trails of Regeneration
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nature.

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LITTLE BYTESESSENTIAL READING

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GM Mosquitoes, Citrus and Antibiotics: Recipe for Disaster?
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UV Radiation Protects Against Coronavirus
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Feds Fire Another Shot at Homeopathy
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Conflicts of Interest Plague GM Mosquito Experiments
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Could a Detroit Experiment Unleash the Power of Urban Soil?
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Revealed: Development Banks Funding Industrial Livestock Farms Around the World
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