“In Uganda, Slow Food continues to embrace, implement and disseminate agroecological practices as the legitimate solution to the problems of the current food system; it works on initiatives that defend the non-renewable wealth of food biodiversity under threat from...
What are five things you think of when you imagine Florida? More than likely, beyond alligators and sun, you probably think of citrus. Whether you live in or visit Florida, there's often a place where you can get locally grown citrus in season: grapefruits,...
Zelka Grammer is a horticulturist/orchardist, keen seed saver and chairwoman of GE Free Northland. She recently had this piece on efforts to stop GE trees in New Zealand published in the New Zealand Herald. Sixteen thousand submitters from all over New Zealand...
By Zelka Linda Grammer GE Free NZ NEW ZEALAND - The Ministry for Primary Industries released the new Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry in August 2017, after putting out the draft NES-PF two years previously. The new NES-PF (1) gives foresters,...
The Campaign to STOP GE Trees know that genetically engineered trees are serious business, putting our forests, native people, endangered species and the planet as a whole in danger. That said, we also like to celebrate fun holidays like Halloween while tying in the...
Featured photo: FSC certified. Courtesy Timberwatch website Note: Wally Menne was a great ally in the fight to stop genetically engineered trees from the early days. I attended the Durban Group for Climate Justice founding meeting as a representative of the GE trees...
The Spin Off, a New Zealand-based site "covering pop culture, sport, politics and social life through features, criticism, interviews, videos and podcasts" recently acknowledged actions to stop genetically engineered trees in an article titled 30 ways campaigners...
Okanagan Specialty Fruits, the developer of the non-browning GE Arctic apple, claims that the apples may be sold in bagged slices in up to 400 stores this season throughout the Midwest and Southern California. According to Technology Review, Okanagan say the GE apples...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hecM7xWvdM The American Chestnut once ranged widely throughout the forests of the eastern US and was an important source of food for people and wildlife, but in the first half of the 20th Century most of these trees were killed off by...
By ANNE PETERMANN Genetically engineered (GE) trees are being developed to expand the existing disaster of industrial tree plantations. After more than 30 years of research, however, GE trees have only been approved in two countries. Black poplar trees engineered to...