Subj:   FW: [StopGETrees] Action Alert: Stop the commercial planting of the 
first temperate GE tree   
Date:   6/23/2006 5:13:45 PM Central Daylight Time  
From:    [log in to unmask] (Jim Diamond)
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"Stop GE Trees" is a network of which Sierra Club is a founding member.  
Papaya was the first fruit tree to be genetically engineered (commercially).  
Since it will be easy to propagate this mutant plum by seeds or by grafting, with 
further genetic spread by pollination, an introduction anywhere means it will 
soon be all over the world and no longer subject to recall.  Many other GE 
varieties are on test plots, both fruit trees and pines, eucalyptus, poplar, 
etc., getting ready to follow.  The USDA is both the regulatory authority and the 
cheering section.  "Keep a lid on it" is the message with regard to both. 
 
Jim Diamond, "Biotech Forum" editor
SPST liaison to Genetic Engineering Committee 





Action Alert:  Stop the commercial planting of genetically engineered 
plums-the first temperate GE tree

The US Department of Agriculture is accepting public comments between now and 
July 17, 2006 on a petition that would allow commercial growing and marketing 
of the first genetically engineered (GE) plum trees. If approved, this would 
remove all regulatory oversight of this GE variety, a virus-resistant plum 
tree known as the Honey Sweet Pox Potyvirus Resistant plum. 

 
Because this GE plum tree is also the first genetically engineered temperate 
tree proposed for commercial planting, it also opens the door to the 
commercialization of GE varieties of other temperate trees such as poplars, pines, and 
walnuts.

 

This petition has implications for all other GE tree species, as the USDA and 
the industry want to gauge what the public's reaction will be. It is critical 
that all concerned about the threat of GE foods and GE trees respond to this 
USDA petition.

For more information & to take action go to:  <A HREF="http://www.stopgetrees.org/">http://www.stopgetrees.org</A> 

 

Thanks for helping us STOP the genetic engineering of trees!
 
Please forward widely
 

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STOP GE Trees Campaign

<A HREF="http://www.stopgetrees.org/">http://www.stopgetrees.org</A> 


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