[Kzyxtalk] THE GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT ON KMEC RADIO -- MONDAY, JANUARY 5, AT 1 PM, PACIFIC TIME

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THE GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT ON KMEC RADIO -- MONDAY, JANUARY 5, AT 1 PM, PACIFIC TIME 




"All About Money" with host, John Sakowicz, returns to KMEC Radio on Monday, January 5, at 1 PM, Pacific Time, with guest Anne Petermann. 




Petermann is the executive director of Buffalo, NY-based Global Justice Ecology Project and the coordinator of the International Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees, which includes organizations, scientists, Indigenous Peoples, and activists from around the world and is dedicated to preventing the commercial release of all genetically engineered trees. 

The majority of the research into genetically engineered (GE) American chestnuts and most of the outdoor test plots are located in New York State at the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry. 




Petermann said last month, “GE trees pose unique and potentially disastrous risks to forests due to their longevity, the vast distances over which they spread pollen and seeds and their intricate relationship with complex forest ecosystems, but these GE American chestnut trees are even more dangerous. They are also completely unnecessary. They will supposedly be resistant to the blight that wiped out American chestnut trees in the last century, but the truth is blight resistant chestnuts are being developed through non-GE traditional breeding. But if fertile GE chestnuts are released into Eastern U.S. forests, which is the plan, they will contaminate both wild chestnuts and hybrid chestnuts. The impacts are unknown, but it will certainly ruin decades of work done by American chestnut breeding programs. This GE American chestnut tree is a Pandora’s box of potential disasters best left closed.” 




Our show with Petermann follows up on our last show on December 27 with Bendra Jo McNanama, who organized an Indigenous Peoples’ Action Camp against GE trees in Cherokee, NC. 




Julia Carrera, director of the Small Farmers Association was our other guest. She is also the third-party inspector for Mendocino County’s marijuana program. Carrera returns to KMEC on January 19. 
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