The USDA is considering approval of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees for commercial production.
ArborGen plans to sell genetically engineered eucalyptus trees for vast plantations from Texas to South Carolina, which would threaten biodiversity, increase wildfires, monopolize groundwater, and worsen climate change. The only way to stop GE trees from invading and contaminating native forests is to ban their commercial release before it is too late.
At Health Through Awareness we feel that this is an important issue.
Global Justice Ecology Project and the Campaign to Stop GE Trees are calling on people everywhere to submit comments to the USDA, telling them that GE freeze tolerant eucalyptus plantations pose and unprecedented threat to forest and wildlife in the US and around the world.
Please tell the USDA to reject ArborGen’s request to commercially sell billions of GE eucalyptus trees.
Submit comments to the USDA/APHIS here or sign the petition on the Center for Food Safety website.
