A Few Compelling Developments Supporting Our Work
GMOs used to be just about food. Now, they are about everything.
Years ago, we were told that the genetically engineered American chestnut tree was a miraculous breakthrough. Now, we learned that it isn't quite working the way it's supposed to. During the “Chestnut Chat” (a gathering of mostly GE chestnut proponents), several admissions were made including that the “Darling 58” (D58) GE American chestnut tree is not the silver bullet once promised for restoration of this once glorious and dominant tree in the Eastern US. The GE tree grows more slowly and shorter than once thought, blight tolerance is unreliable, and field trials are limited in their ability to reflect real-life conditions.What a surprise! This has been the fate of nearly every genetically engineered plant, tree, animal, etc... since we started 20 years ago. How many times can the industry mislead us, over and over again, and still provide false hope and convince people they're telling the truth?
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Now, the big lies are coming from the pro-GM forces in Europe trying to convince the European Commission that gene editing is safe, reliable, and predictable. According to 70 scientists in an open letter to the Commission, they're saying “liar, liar, pants on fire.” (That’s not a direct quote
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But here is a direct quote and it sounds a whole lot like what we say in our GMO 2.0: Tame the Tech campaign:
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Once again, if these were just kids playing in the sandbox, no problem. But these lies could change our lives and our world forever.
Once you release a GMO (like giants as in the American Chestnut or invisible little guys like microorganisms), there's no way you can recall it.
All future generations will have to deal with whatever mistakes they found or, more worryingly, the ones they haven't found. This is why we're doubling down with our GMO 2.0: Tame the Tech campaign.