Apr. 15, 2013 / Posted by: Erich Pica / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Today, I stood with women’s health activists, BRCA-positive women and activists and organizations from across the country in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to express Friends of the Earth’s support and solidarity with Breast Cancer Ac...
Read More »Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood&...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Friends of the Earth is excited to announce our new campaign to prevent genetically engineered fish from hitting our dinner plates: the Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood. As we recently reported, the U.S. Food & Drug Administr...
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Feb. 18, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant and Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Food and Technology, Oceans and Forests
When our friends at Global Forest Coalition asked us to write an article examining the links between the synthetic biology industry and trends in the forest sector, we were happy to put together the following article, a version of which has just r...
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Feb. 5, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Tonight, Dan Rather Reports will run an hour-long special on synthetic biology. Friends of the Earth has been leading the charge for the proper oversight of this emerging technology and was interviewed for this investigative piece and we highlight...
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Jan. 10, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Food and Technology
Right before the holidays, while most of us were spending time with our families and friends, the Food and Drug Administration was busy giving the biotechnology industry a big, fat, genetically engineered gift. On December 21, the FDA quietly rele...
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Nov. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Election night was a big night for progressive communities across the country. President Obama was re-elected, of course, and he finally called for action on climate change in his victory speech (which he has unfortunately already started to waffl...
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Aug. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Here is the biggest problem I face every day: I want to eat an apple as a healthy snack to get me through the afternoon, but eating a whole apple is really too much for me given my busy schedule. I mean, who has time to eat a whole apple in today&...
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Jul. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Activist opposition to the proposed plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys is starting to heat up -- and the media is increasingly taking notice. Last month, I sent an email encouraging Friends of the Earth activist...
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May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman, Stuart Newman, Ph.D. / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure-all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills. As many prominent synthetic biologists proclaimed in 2007, the world “face[s] daunting problems of climate change,...
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