Genetically Engineered Trees: No Solution to Climate Change Árvores transgênicas não são solução para as mudanças climáticas Árboles transgénicos: No son solución al cambio climático Les arbres génétiquement modifiés: ne sont pas une solution aux changements...
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Faces Behind the Campaign︱Lois Breault-Melican
Aug 26, 2021
Meet the faces who make up the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Lois Breault-Melican is a member of the American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation and is also on the Campaign to STOP GE Trees North American Coordinating Committee. Here’s what she had to say about working with...
URGENT ACTION ALERT: Tell USDA NO GE trees in our forests!
Aug 17, 2021
The USDA has opened up a second public comment period to seek input for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) they plan to prepare on whether or not to approve the GE American chestnut. We need to respond in force. The pro-GE tree side is mobilizing their...
USDA’s actions on gene-edited approvals challenged in court
Aug 10, 2021
Center for Food Safety’s federal lawsuit says the exemptions for broad categories of GE crops risky. FarmProgress 6 Aug 2021 Jacqui Fatka In May 2020, the previous administration’s USDA issued its final rule to modernize agricultural biotechnology regulations. Of note...
Faces Behind the Campaign︱Steve Taylor
Aug 5, 2021
Meet the faces who make up the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Steve Taylor is the Press Secretary of Global Justice Ecology Project and a member of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees North American Coordinating Committee. Here’s what he had to say about working with the...
Gene Drives – Engineering the Wild
Aug 4, 2021
Designed to push new genes through entire populations in the wild, gene drive technology raises serious questions about monitoring, reversibility, and human control of nature Watershed Sentinel 13 July 2021 By Lucy Sharratt So far, genetically engineered organisms...
Faces Behind the Campaign︱Rachel Smolker
Jul 1, 2021
Meet the faces who make up the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Rachel Smolker is the Co-director of Biofuelwatch and a member of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees steering committee. Here’s what she had to say about her journey to working with the campaign. ...
Not ready to eat GMO animals? Then you might not want to order the salmon
Jun 23, 2021
Food Safety News 9 June 2021 Thomas Gremillion Recently, I did something I had not done in a long time. I ate in a restaurant with my family. Actually, we ate on the outdoor patio, since my kids are too young to be vaccinated and we are somewhat more squeamish than...
Faces Behind the Campaign︱BJ McManama
Apr 22, 2021
Meet the faces who have supported the Campaign to Stop GE Trees. Here's what BJ McManama had to say about her journey to working with us. Every once in a while I get asked by people who don’t know me well, why I chose to be a full-time activist or, more accurately, a...
Truthout Article on Dangers of Releasing GE American Chestnut Tree into Forests
Apr 19, 2021
Anne Petermann is the Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. She has been working on issues related to protecting forests and defending the rights of Indigenous peoples since 1990 and co-founded the first global campaign against genetically engineered...