Genetic Engineering

 This team is working to preserve biodiversity by stopping the outdoor release of these corporate-patented life forms.

Who benefits from the manipulation of the genetic code, which has evolved over the past billion years? Huge agribusiness corporations, which are solely responsible to provide financial benefit to their shareholders. How? By artificially remaking life by crashing through the natural barrier between species to make genetically manipulated organisms and by patenting those traits. Genes from genetically manipulated crops can spread to neighboring crops or to wild species, which can be a major disaster for the welfare of the planet and its inhabitants. It is impossible to recall engineered genes once they are released. Think of spliced-in genes, also called transgenes, as malicious code in the genome of a plant code that is self-replicating. Genetic engineering is forever. The implications of a hacked genetic code slipping into our food and multiplying is worse than a computer virus. 

Team News & Views

Sierra Club's stance on GE trees

I have been asked about Sierra Club's stance on GE trees. * Please read this 1/19/16 article: https://atlantic2.sierraclub.org/content/tree-research-and-survival-viable-without-genetic-engineering * I also suggest readers view the award winning documentary “A Silent Forest -The Growing Threat Genetically Engineered Trees,” which explores the growing global threat of genetically engineered trees to our environment. The film features renowned geneticist Dr. David Suzuki, who explores the possible disastrous consequences of improperly tested GE methods.

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