Protest Frankentrees in Portland

by the GE-Tree Conference

Please join with us in Portland, Oregon, to protest the development of transgenic trees July 21-22. Many companies and universities have field-tested genetically engineered trees and they are planning to release them into the wild on a commercial scale soon.

Trees are the oldest and largest organisms on the planet. Some of them have genomes eight times larger than the human genome. We should not alter their genomes that have developed and adapted to the environment over millions of years.

Let us not wait until GE trees are grown commercially all over the world. We have to let the public, the industry and the universities know that we will not sit and watch until genetic pollution from transgenic trees covers our forests. Once the trees are released they will contaminate surrounding forests and downstream ecosystems, and upset the ecological balance of forest communities. They cannot be recalled.

Read more on the dangers of GE trees at www.gaaget.org (Global Alliance Against Genetically Engineered Trees).

We are going to respond to a conference on transgenic trees to take place in Stevenson Washington (Skamania Lodge) from July 22-27. The lodge is about an hour from Portland, in the Columbia Gorge. Go to www.gaaget.org and click on the events link.

The biotech industry needs to know we do not accept their vision of complete biological domination of life.

To get involved: Contact us! Let us know if you can help. Spread this email. Come to Portland on July 21-22. Send us some money (we are broke). Organize teach-ins. We are available for speaking engagements from now until the conference.

Call us in Portland at: (503) 239-6841; www.gaaget.org.Or write to us at: GE-Tree Conference, PO Box 15289, Portland, OR 97293.