Thanks for the article, Donna. As I'm sure everyone knows, Jeffrey  Smith 
has been a member of the national Sierra Club Genetic Engineering Action  
Team (GEAT, formerly the Genetic Engineering Committee) for many  years.--Tom
 
 
In a message dated 1/18/2011 12:14:14 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
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Here is  the link to a great article about Roundup  "Monsanto's Roundup   
Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal  Health"

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/blog/664

Donna



On  Jan 18, 2011, at 11:07 AM, gerald neff wrote:

> Pine trees have  already been a plantation crop in many states  
> especially in the  southeast where lumber companies own vast amounts  
> tracts of  pine forests. Most of America's lumber comes from private  
> land  where there are no regulations.
> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Thomas Mathews <[log in to unmask]>
> To:  [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:48:29 -0600  (CST)
> Subject: Fwd: USDA grant for GE trees
>
>
>  This is from the national Sierra Club Biotech Forum.
>
> In a  message dated 1/17/2011 7:37:33 P.M. Central Standard Time,
>  [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
>
> There is a pine  tree in Sierra Club's logo, so the following  news  
> item  is
> very troubling to me:
> The University of California,  Davis,  has been awarded a $14.8  
> million grant
>  through NIFA, the National Institute  of Food and Agriculture   
> program (this
> is part of the US Dept. of Ag) to map  the  DNA sequence of pines.   
> "Using
> fast-growing trees  such as loblolly  pine for fuels also can  
> contribute  to
> carbon sequestration and may help  mitigate the effects of  climate  
> change,"
> USDA said.  According to   Roger Beachy, the project, "will generate  
> and use
>  genomics information to  provide an understanding of genes and   
> genetics in
> conifers to help in  developing new  bioenergy sources."  (Roger  
> Beachy is
>  currently  president of the NIFA, developed the first GE tomato and   
> served
> as
> president of the Danford Plant Science  Center in Saint Louis, which
> received
> a founding gift of 40  acres and $50 million from Monsanto.)
> This means that pine trees may  become a plantation crop.  Tree   
> plantations
>  will, wherever planted, replace biodiversity and replace real    
> forests.
> This
> will be done with pretence that biofuel  is carbon  neutral.  I don't  
> want to
> take  time to argue that point at the moment  - probably most of us   
> realize
> that true forests sequester far more   carbon.  Right now I just want  
> to say
> that  destruction of forests and  the great biodiversity they  
>  represent will
> greatly impoverish all of us who  love and connect  to the natural  
> world.
> Nature of course will still  exist,  but in a diminished form.  And the
> armies
> of  genetically altered pines  which may occupy the place of old   
> forests will
> spread via seeds and pollen,  not  respecting the boundaries of  
> national
> forests and  parks.
> posted by  Jim Diamond,  M.D.
>
>
>
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