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...
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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...
US apples shut out of India
Mar 2, 2021
Fruitnet John Hay 2 March 2021 Indian market is “technically closed” to US apples following new requirement for non-GMO certificate with each consignment US apples have effectively lost access to the Indian market after new import regulations requiring certain fruit...
SLAPP Lawsuit Against GE Tree Solidarity Group
Jan 22, 2021
In 2020, Rainforest Rescue helped the Campaign to Stop GE Trees secure more than 120,000 names opposing the genetically engineered American chestnut for the USDA comment period. They helped us and now it's our turn to help Rainforest Rescue stand up against...
Advances in genetic engineering test democracy’s capacity for good decision-making
Nov 9, 2020
Local community input is not adequately sought out, and issues of social justice and equity are largely ignored The Boston Globe 9 Nov 2020 Natalie Kofler and Riley Taitingfong This year has tested our ability as Americans to address collective challenges. From the...
GMWatch: New Scientific Paper Gives Overview of Risks Associated With Genetic Engineering
Aug 20, 2020
New genetic engineering techniques pose numerous risks GMWatch 12 August 2020 A new scientific paper published in the journal Environmental Sciences Europe gives an overview of the risks associated with gene-editing procedures (new genetic engineering) for plants and...
GMO Mosquitoes First Of Many Attempts To Transform Natural World
Jun 8, 2020
Photo: Langelle/GJEP Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas beginning this summer – silver bullet or jumping the gun? The Conversation 3 June 2020 B. Allan, C. Stone, H. Tuten, J. Kuzma, & N. Kofler This summer, for the first time,...