GENE DRIVES EXPLAINED. WHAT, WHY, HOW? The authors of the interdisciplinary Gene Drive Report (2019) are holding webinars on social, technological & scientific, environmental, ethical and legal questions of this new technique in June 2020 via Zoom – for free....
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Op-ed: Ever heard of isoxaflutole? That’s about to change Environmental Health News 24 April 2020 Nathan Donley Across the country, many people who've never stepped into a soybean or corn field are familiar with pesticides like the cancer-linked glyphosate in Roundup...
We cannot be surprised that capitalism has failed to keep people safe in the face of a global pandemic , when large corporations like Monsanto are allowed to ignore public safety, as with the government approving this dangerous pesticide despite Monsanto knowing its...
What could be wrong about planting trees? The new push for more industrial tree plantations in the Global South World Rainforest Movement 23 March 2020 What could be wrong about planting trees? Haven’t communities around the world been planting a diversity of trees...
Photo: Langelle/GJEP Trump's move to allow GMO crops in wildlife refuges is not unexpected with the administration already reversing wildlife refuge prohibition. Last Fall the Center for Food Safety sued over the withdrawal of the prohibition. The case is ongoing. If...
GE Trees Protest in Asheville, NC-May, 2013. Langelle/GJEP Nature is a complex web of life that has evolved over billions of years. The introduction of genetically engineered (GE) organisms threatens the evolutionary integrity of that web. The effects of GE plants are...
Women Traditional Healers – Amador Hernandez, Chiapas, Mexico (2011). Photo: Langelle World Rainforest Movement 7 March 2020 Women, particularly those who depend on forests for their livelihoods and sustenance, face many struggles. Women often lead various types of...
GJEP has worked in solidarity with the MST in Brazil to stop the use of GE trees there since 2006. We strongly oppose Brazil’s outrageous decision in 2015 to legalize genetically engineered eucalyptus trees. Brazil’s irresponsible approval of this experimental tree...
Policeman waves away some of the hundreds of demonstrators who descended on the entrance to Monsanto’s world headquarters in the United States near St. Louis, MO. Photo: Orin Langelle, Creve Coeur, MO (2012) GJEP/PhotoLangelle.org https://youtu.be/TGmGKhpGKS4...