It is time to take action in solidarity with activists in Brazil trying to protect their forests from biotech meddling. On March 3rd, Brazil will make a decision about genetically modified trees that could change the planet. Without enough pressure from local movements as well as from people around the world, these GE trees will pollute the planet. We need you to send a resounding message to the makers – No GE trees!
The push for genetically modified trees by biotech, paper, lumber, and energy companies does not have our environment, nor human health in mind, though they make promises of sustainability. ArborGen is just the first to try to get their genetically modified trees into the ecosystem.
Arbor Gen already petitioned the USDA successfully for approval of their GE trees in the US, but don’t let them spread their biotech lies (and seed) anywhere else! Protection groups from around the globe have unified to publicly condemn the US government for allowing the first genetically modified tree to be legalized with zero government or public oversight and zero environmental risk assessments. What’s more, the decision was made despite overwhelming public opposition.
The company already plans to seed the entire South, from Texas to South Carolina, with hundreds of thousands of GE trees. Once these trees are planted, their pollen can drift for up to a hundred miles, affecting other non-GE trees and plants.
Plantations of genetically modified eucalyptus trees are not forests – and the biodiversity of our planet is in danger if GE trees are allowed to be planted in Brazil. GE trees are meant to accelerate large-scale mono-cropping, totally dimissing the profound diversity of the forest.
If GE trees are allowed by international governments, then we can expect the legacy of deforestation, pollution of ecosystems, and the further violation of human rights to continue as they have with plantations of eucalyptus, poplar, palm, and other mono-culture trees. GE trees are an untested and unregulated danger, and should not be allowed.
There are other really sustainable ways to protect our forests – we can plant hemp, bamboo, and other crops which don’t require GE meddling. The arguments that GE trees are needed are based on completely flawed logic.
The hemp industry makes these attractive claims, which if true, are incredible:
“On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much fiber as 2 to 3 acres of cotton. Hemp fiber is stronger and softer than cotton, lasts twice as long as cotton, and will not mildew.
… On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much paper as 2 to 4 acres of trees. From tissue paper to cardboard, all types of paper products can be produced from hemp.”
You can visit stopgetrees.org to learn more and take further action. You can also contact one of 313 Brazillian embassies and consulates, and publish to social media to help get the world out. You are the resistance!
Just got back from Florida. Hopefully we get the gmo Orange tree soon or there just won’t be any Florida oranges much longer.
And how do you propose pollenating those trees once you’ve killed off all the bees with GMOs and the pesticides that go with them? I and my family will not eat your GMO oranges (or GMO anything else for that matter). People are waking up to the realities of the dangers and damages of GMOs and are increasingly rejecting GMO produce and products.
Pesticides that go with them? Worst case the pesticides use is the same, but in most cases it is lower, much lower than without gmos. Do you not think that we used any pesticides before gmos? Waking up to the realities? The reality is that they are safe and there is zero proof otherwise. And yes as time goes on and more people are educated they are waking up to this. That is why labeling has been voted down. Funny, you won’t eat a gmo, but I bet you would tackle an organic ruby red grapefruit wouldn’t you?
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Yes, it has been voted down because the GMO industry put many times as much money into opposing the GMO-labeling ballot propositions as the labeling proponents could muster, and you used the money to spread lies, like that labeling would cost too much. And you say it would confuse consumers. I have an idea. How about we eliminate all the confusion caused by labels by just not labeling anything. A box of food can have a color on it, but no writing. Supid!! But we don’t have to win at the ballot box. If even 10% of the population says “I’m not eating that garbage anymore,” the stores will quit carrying it because it’s not profitable, and you GMO criminals will go out of business.
As for proof, I just gave you links to articles with lots of other links to studies, in another thing you posted your nonsense on.
Pesticides used before? Yes, but we’re also going for organinc now, because we don’t want the pesticides anymore, whether sprayed or produced by GMOs themselves.
There’s BT toxin, produced constantly by GE soy, corn, and cotton, so we get loads of pesticides made by the plant itself, even without spraying it. It’s a registered pesticide with the EPA, yet people are eating this stuff, and getting allergies and all kinds of health problems as a result.
Then there are “RoundUp-Ready” GMO plants are GE’ed to be able to handle far more RounUp herbiicide than the natural versions could. The glyphosate in RoundUp destroys our gut bacteria where 70% of our immune system lies. One of the subsequent results is the inability to regulate blood sugar, and diabetes results.
Then there are the promoters in genetic engineering, where for example they want a tomato to be more red. These promoters wake up various genes, including one we don’t want to wake up, like one that may make us predisposed to cancer.
The GMO industry has a lot of blood on its hands.
Lol, you should really write some science fiction. You obviously don’t know much about bt. Let’s start with a simple lesson. There are no bt soybeans produced in this country. There’s one. Two, your menacing pesticides they produce is no more than a simple protein, hardly comparable to ddt or the organophosphates that we used in the not to distant past. That’s two. There are no allergies or health problems that have EVER been recorded. Hence there is no need to label based on health. That’s three and your out on the bet issue.
On the roundup issue your statement that gmos can handle more glyphosate than non gmos is kinda an oxymoron since the non gmos have a zero tolerance level. As far as killing the gut bacteria, let’s think about it for a minute. If it was really able to do that then some smart scientist would have already turned it into an antibiotic by now.
As for going organic? That’s fine go ahead, but the billions of people on this planet have a strange habit of wanting to eat daily. That ain’t never going to continue on organic only.
Read the links and watch the documentary I linked to at the other article you commented on. You’ll see how wrong you are. While you’re at it, watch the movie “Bought,” about the pharmaceutical and food industries buying politicians, medical schools, and doctors and selling our health out from under us, all for putting money ahead of our health. It sounds like you’ve only been looking at studies done and published by the industry itself. Listening to the industry is like listening to the fox tell why he ought to get the job of guarding the hen house. It’s a crime ring though. Here’s an example, which I wish I had bookmarked, where the industry supposedly “proved” GMOs were safe, yet hid the truth: Rats fed GMO foods in a test all got cancer. When the report was published, the industry said it wasn’t valid, because the wrong kind of rat was used. It turns out however that the GMO company did their testing using the same kind of rat. But the GMO company stopped after 90 days saying none of the rats got cancer, when it was proven by the non-industry test that if they had gone to 150 days, all of them would have had cancer. This is stuff I came across while researching something else in health. Maybe now I’ll have to intensify this area of study and bookmark more things, because I care about the health of my family and friends and my country. I’m an electronics engineer, actually a circuit designer, who works part time, which gives me time to put into this.
If you think the studies that don’t agree with you are faked what makes these real? Because you like the conclusions? I happen to own a grain elevator and at supply company. It has been in my family for over a hundred years. Unfortunately rats are a way of life in my business, you can never get rid of all of them. All the grain we buy is gmo, because we don’t pay a premium so the non gmo goes else where. So all of our rats eat gmo corn and beans. Mst say that I have never seen an unhealthy one, but plenty of healthy ones! Strange goo how the livestock we provide feed for never have any of the horror stories that you would have people believe. Gmos no longer need studies as they have been around long enough and used in every application that safety isn’t questioned to anyone that actually uses them.
and the FDA told us in the 1950’s that smoking was proven safe.
Funny how the first official word from the government didn’t happen until the late fifties and then it was from the surgeon general as a warnng about the effects of smoking. The fda didn’t have any authority over tobacco until 2009, when Obama singed the Family smoking prevention and tobacco control act.
Like your arguments your research is flawed.
Yea well I’ve noticed many diseases compromising the health of all ages a lot of intestinal disorders like independent scientists have spoken about in GMO gut damages. Tobacco industries were in monetary settlements in many ways by state governance before Obama came into office.
Gmos have been studied and tested more than any food product in history. You wish to throw out 99.9% of them because you don’t like what the results say. Why don’t you complain about testing for the ruby red grapefruit? No, you are happy with it being labeled organic. The only difference is it was invented before the rise of social media and this the false information was never able to develop.
gmo robers you are an ignoramus…. i’m sure they (gmo companys) are causing the orange plight, so that they can move in for the kill….. literally and figuratively. And they will, because most in this state are brain dead: old (living in never never land); and the imports havn’t a clue about anything!!!! The local white people are mostly poor and on the take, and the rich that come here seasonally, most are so drugged up on their prescription pills they can’t think straight even if they were at one time somewhat intelligent.
You are a sad individual. You have nothing good to say about anything or anybody. Your negativity is contagious. Hopefully your kind will go extinct.