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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
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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Aug. 23, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
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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Oct. 28, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
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 / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
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 / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
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 / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
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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Oct. 25, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
Late last night, I finally arrived in Charlottetown, on Prince Edward Island, to kick off my genetically engineered salmon tour of Atlantic Canada. It was already dark when my plane landed so I couldn’t see just how beautiful the island is. ...
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Oct. 24, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
We all have a right to know whether the food we are eating has been genetically engineered.
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Oct. 22, 2011 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology / Tags: Eric hoffman, Genetic engineering
Updates from a tour of Atlantic Canada – the center of the genetically engineered salmon controversy During a week-long tour of Atlantic Canada, we will raise awareness on the risks of genetically engineered fish pose to our environment and ...
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