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
>
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> 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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