After Six Years USDA, GE Tree Company ArborGen Fail to Launch GE Eucalyptus New York (12 January 2017) - Tuesday, 17 January 2017, the eve of the new Trump Presidency, will mark six years since genetically engineered tree (GE) company ArborGen submitted a petition to...
Genetically Engineered Trees were the topic when Global Justice Ecology Project's Anne Petermann was a guest on the Post Carbon Radio show airing on KWMR-FM on Jan. 9. Petermann joined guests Claire Hope Cummings, an environmental journalist; and Mark Dowie, also...
Scott's creeping bentgrass is genetically engineered to withstand applications of Monsanto's Roundup. GE bentgrass escaped from test trials in Oregon in 2003 and are still uncontained after years of eradication efforts. The USDA is considering deregulating creeping...
Global Justice Ecology Project's Anne Petermann provided the weekly Earth Minute segment for the Sojourner Truth Radio Show on Wednesday, discussing how genetically engineered American Chestnuts will be bad for forests if released into the wild. The Earth Minute...
GE tree company ArborGen announced today that it is expanding its agreement with International Paper Brazil (IP). IP will be granting ArborGen additional access to the library of IP’s Eucalyptus genetic material. Eucalyptus is the most widely planted hardwood...
This is yet another example of genetically engineered organisms having unintended and unpredictable impacts. It underscores the need to use the Precautionary Principle when dealing with all GMOs–forcing scientists and industry to PROVE these GMOs are safe BEFORE...
The Progressive Farmer unpacked the story of Del Monte's sweeter GMO pink pineapple, which recently gained FDA approval. Food Safety News' reporting on the development was critiqued for being surprisingly favorable toward the novel, consumer-focused food product. In...
As usual, the FDA is glossing over this new GMO and insisting it is safe to eat and no different from any other pineapple. They ignore the fact that the manipulation of genetic material in any organism causes unforeseen mutations or other impacts that cannot be...
GLBrain.com recently published a piece by John Nelson titled, "Genetically-Engineered Trees and Our Health" that bases much of its information on A Silent Forest, a GE trees documentary narrated by Dr. David Suzuki. It has a lot of good information in it, but a more...
Via Field Liberation: https://www.facebook.com/DeWereldMorgen/videos/10154532054095469/ BELGIUM - At the end of the climate summit in Marrakesh, 20 activists from theField Liberation Movement planted a “permit to cut” in a field of GMO poplar trees...