{"id":6876,"date":"2015-02-01T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=6876"},"modified":"2015-02-01T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T17:53:11","slug":"outrage-over-us-secret-approval-of-genetically-engineered-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/02\/outrage-over-us-secret-approval-of-genetically-engineered-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage Over US Secret Approval of Genetically Engineered Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/treefarm_mettjr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6878\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/treefarm_mettjr-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"treefarm_mettjr\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/treefarm_mettjr-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/treefarm_mettjr-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/treefarm_mettjr-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/treefarm_mettjr.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Groups from around the world \u00a0today joined together to denounce the US government for allowing the first genetically engineered tree, a loblolly pine, to be legalized with no government or public oversight, with no assessment of their risks to the public or the environment, and without regard to overwhelming public opposition to GE trees.<\/p>\n<p>A secret letter from the USDA to GE tree company ArborGen, dated last August, was recently exposed by scientist Doug Gurian-Sherman of the Center for Food Safety. In this letter, the USDA made the unprecedented decision to allow ArborGen to pursue unregulated commercial cultivation of a loblolly pine genetically engineered for altered wood composition. These trees could be planted anywhere in the US, without public knowledge or access to information about them.<\/p>\n<p>Read Article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/speakout\/item\/28845-outrage-over-us-secret-approval-of-genetically-engineered-trees\">Outrage Over US Secret Approval of Genetically Engineered Trees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ad Groups from around the world \u00a0today joined together to denounce the US government for allowing the first genetically engineered tree, a loblolly pine, to be legalized with no government or public oversight, with no assessment of their risks to the public or the environment, and without regard to overwhelming public opposition to GE trees&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,5],"tags":[1770,1768,1769,742,1685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6880,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/6880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}