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
by Laurel Hopwood on Thursday, March 25, 2021
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.
Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Team: Synopsis of our accomplishments, 1999 - 2020
by Laurel Hopwood on Friday, July 10, 2020
Here's a synopsis of our accomplishments since our inception in 1999.
Genetic Engineering at a Historic Crossroads
by Laurel Hopwood on Thursday, March 5, 2020
Genetic Engineering at a Historic Crossroads
written in 1999 by the Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Team members (which were approved by the Sierra Club Board of Directors)
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Team Documents
NAS Report on Gene Drives - A new concern about GMOs
by Doris Cellarius on Thursday, July 21, 2016
National Academy of Sciences Report on Gene Drives