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AGRA Watch Report Exposes CAS & the Gates Foundation
People protesting Genetically Engineered Trees in front of the IUFRO conference. Photo: Langelle The Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS), funded by the Gates Foundation, promotes agribusiness and crop biotechnology, including genetically engineered (GE or genetically...
Former TACF chapter president says no to GE Chestnuts and yes to real forests
Lois Breault-Melican, former president of the Rhode Island American Chestnut Foundation explains why she and her husband, Denis, resigned in protest over current plans to seed natural forests with genetically engineered (GE) American Chestnuts. Lois explains how TACF...
EcoRI News Interviews Members of Stop GE Trees Campaign
The following article includes excerpts from Grace Kelly's interviews with Lois & Denis Melican, former members of MA/RI Chapter board of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF), and Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project. Infighting...
Researchers Working To Replace Nature One GMO At A Time
Medium 27 July 2020 Theresa Church The University of New England (UNE) is partnering with SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry (ESF) to develop the first ever genetically engineered (GE) forest tree for release into the wild. UNE has a request pending...
Bangor Daily New Publishes Op Ed on GE American Chestnut
Genetically engineered trees do not belong in our forests Bangor Daily News 19 July 2020 Theresa Church The COVID-19 pandemic has given us a rare interlude to evaluate the notion of business as usual. It has exposed mounting flaws and inequalities as a result of the...
Genetically Modified Chestnuts Imperil Forests
On Saturday 7 July 2020, The Scranton Times Tribune ran an op ed by Anne Petermann, International Coordinator for the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees titled Genetically Modified Chestnuts Imperil Forests. The following is Peterman’s submission to the...
In Reconsidering ‘Normalcy’ Genetically Engineered Trees Do Not Belong
Mom's Across America 10 July 2020 Theresa Church The global pandemic of Covid-19 has challenged the notion of business as usual and exposed a systemic crisis rooted in capitalism and the neoliberal economic model. The pandemic has proliferated in unpredictable...
Release: Diverse Groups Unite In Opposition To GE Tree Plan By SUNY-ESF
Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees For Immediate Release 17 June 2020 For More Information Contact Steve Taylor +1.314.210.1322...
GMO Mosquitoes First Of Many Attempts To Transform Natural World
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,...
Statement on the Recent Dicamba Decision
Photo: protest against Monsanto's toxic agrochemicals and GMOs in Asuncion, Paraguay, 2014. Photo: Langelle/ photolangelle.org Campaign To Stop GE Trees For Immediate Release June 5, 2020 Statement on the Recent Dicamba Decision Monsanto's Pesticide Unlawful - Drift...
Webinar Series Explains Gene Drives
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....
Science Says Burning Trees Is A False Climate Solution
Photo: Logging devastation in Mapuche Territory (Chile). Langelle/GJEP GE trees are being heavily promoted as a false climate solution. Genetically engineered trees are being developed for use in biomass plantations to be burned for electricity. Other GE trees are...
New GE Trees 3 Minute Video
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We Respond: Letter Published in New York Times Challenges Support for GE Trees
Global Justice Ecology Project, which coordinates the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, submitted the letter below to the New York Times Magazine–it was published in its print edition on Sunday, May 17th. The letter was submitted in response to a piece written by Gabriel...
NY Times Magazine Promotes GE Trees – We Set the Record Straight
By Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project An article printed in today’s New York Times Magazine, “Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?” by Gabriel Popkin, is a disappointing piece of questionable journalism. In this...
Isoxaflutole-The EPA’s Newest Toxic Approval
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...
Commercial Timber Industry Under Fire
Eucalyptus plantations in South Africa are nicknamed "green cancer" because the spread uncontrollably and destroy everything they touch. South Africa is one of the countries looking into the possibility of GE tree plantations in the future. (2003) Photo:...
Monsanto Knew Dicamba Would Cause Damage
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...