Jan. 12, 2012 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Company conceals evidence that genetically modified mosquitoes may have high survival rate in wild News release from Friends of the Earth U.S., GeneWatch UK and Third World Network A confidential internal document obtained by civil society groups...
Read More »Jan. 4, 2012 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District has reportedly delayed its planned release of genetically engineered mosquitoes — which would have been the first-ever such release in the U.S. — until late spring at the earliest. The release...
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Dec. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology, Publications
A private firm is planning to release potentially harmful genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys as early as January, endangering human health and the environment in what would become the first-ever U.S. release of these engineered ...
Read More »Dec. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Kelly Trout / Categories: Food and Technology, Legal, News Releases
San Francisco, Calif. -- Concerned by the growing body of scientific reports cautioning against the unregulated use of nanotechnology in consumer products, a coalition of nonprofit consumer safety and environmental groups sued the Food and Drug Ad...
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Dec. 16, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Yesterday morning, the Senate Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard held a hearing on the environmental risks posed by genetically engineered salmon (archived webcast of the hearing available). As you may ...
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Dec. 1, 2011 / Posted by: Michal Rosenoer / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Food and Technology
Due to an onslaught of recent critiques and a trading scandal involving the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a diverse coalition has called on Congress to hold hearings on the broken policy.
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Oct. 28, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Friday, October 28, 2011 Whew! After four-plus days of non-stop action here in Atlantic Canada, our tour is starting to slow down. We just had our last meeting this morning with the local government, and we have the rest of the day off to relax an...
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Oct. 27, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
The past four days touring Atlantic Canada have been a whirlwind! Tonight we hosted our fourth and last public forum in St. John’s. This city is the birthplace of AquaBounty’s genetically engineered salmon, as it was a professor at a ...
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Oct. 27, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Day three on the road, and things aren’t slowing down one bit! Yesterday we received news that the official opposition party here, the New Democratic Party, introduced a motion in the Canadian Parliament that would ban the introduction of ge...
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Oct. 26, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Day two on the genetically engineered salmon tour, and things are coming along well. We drove four hours this morning from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to Fredericton, New Brunswick. Most of the day was spent in the car, but we also had a ...
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