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Faces Behind the Campaign︱Rachel Smolker
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
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︱Theresa Church
Meet the faces who support the Campaign to Stop GE Trees. Here’s what Theresa Church, Assistant Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, had to say about her journey to working with us. What's your background? Professionally, I am the Assistant...
Faces Behind the Campaign︱BJ McManama
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 Potential Release of GE American Chestnut Tree
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...
Release: Health Canada Proposes to Remove Regulation for Some GMOs
Lucy Sharratt is the Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), which brings together 16 groups to research, monitor and raise awareness about issues relating to genetic engineering in food and farming. CBAN is a project on the shared platform of...
US apples shut out of India
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...
Top Food Service Company Aramark Rejects Genetically Engineered Salmon Ahead of First U.S. Sales
Note: Organisms are being genetically engineered (GE or genetically modified) to have new traits such as faster growth, herbicide tolerance and insect and disease resistance. GE organisms create novel risks to the environment, biodiversity and local communities...
Into the Wild: GMOs head for the forest
Lucy Sharratt is the Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), which brings together 16 groups to research, monitor and raise awareness about issues relating to genetic engineering in food and farming. CBAN is a project on the shared platform of...
WERU Interviews Members of the Campaign to Stop GE Trees
Common Ground Radio 14 January 2021 Producer/host C.J. Walke interviewed members of the Campaign to Stop GE Trees to discuss the history of the American Chestnut tree in our eastern forests, genetic engineering of American chestnut trees and the social and economic...
SLAPP Lawsuit Against GE Tree Solidarity Group
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...
WRM: Sexual Exploitation and Violence against Women at the Root of the Industrial Plantation Model
World Rainforest Movement 15 Jan 2021 Included in Bulletin 253 European colonizers relied on large-scale monoculture plantations to impose their rule on peoples and territories across the global South. Their enforced plantation model – planting one single specie...
WRM: Organized land theft for industrial tree plantations in Brazil
A note from Global Justice Ecology Project: Brazil is at the epicenter of targeted biomass production with plans to commercialize industrial plantations of genetically engineered (GE or genetically modified) trees, especially eucalyptus. As we can see in this article...
Tower Hill Botanic Garden Highlights Former TACF Board Members Chestnut Work
Lois Melican and Denis Melican are American chestnut restoration activists and former Board members of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF). In 2019, the Melicans made the decision to resign from TACF due to the organization's support for the unregulated planting...
Genetic engineering can save the American chestnut tree from a deadly fungus
Below is an excerpt from the 17 December 2020 publication in Massive Science. For the full story click here. If approved, the decision would be the first use of genetic engineering for the purpose of conservation, and has the potential to change eastern US forests if...
Fedco Weighs in on Consequences of GE American Chestnut
Dark Hort? More Questions than Answers Jen Ries, Fedco Trees Coordinator, on behalf of Fedco The chestnut, an iconic tree of the American landscape, is poised to become a different kind of icon of a new era. A petition has arrived at the USDA asking for the release of...
Efforts To Genetically Engineer American Chestnut Trees Draw Controversy
The majestic American chestnut was once common in forests in the eastern U.S., but a blight has killed billions of these giant trees. Researchers are moving forward with genetically-modified trees that will survive the blight. But as Julie Grant of The...
Advances in genetic engineering test democracy’s capacity for good decision-making
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...