[[link removed]]URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Stop the EPA from approving the sale of new, risky
GENE-SILENCING PESTICIDES! Take action now!
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Agrichemical corporation GreenLight Biosciences (GLB) used genetic engineering
and nano-scale pesticide coatings to create a new pesticide that tries to kill insects by interfering with their genetic material. Despite how little we know about this new technology, it could reach the market
before the company finishes its field trial research, and before the EPA has even evaluated the full data.
This pesticide could easily drift and harm people, endangered species , and beneficial insects! But we don’t know how, Friend
– EPA’s review of GreenLight Biosciences data leaves important human and
environmental health issues unaddressed.
Even worse is that we don’t know whether the masks and protective gear for farmworkers will be at
all effective with this novel pesticide.
Remember, Friend, this pesticide could interfere with genetic material – a key part of the core instructions for living organisms. It’s too risky to
let this pesticide onto the market without a longer-term full assessment of its
potential impacts. But we have less than ONE WEEK to submit comments to the EPA before it could move forward. Please, Friend, STOP the EPA from approving RISKY,
UNDERSTUDIED RNA-INTERFERING pesticides before it’s too late! Sign the petition
now! >>
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[[link removed]]Not only is this new pesticide potentially harmful, there’s also evidence that
it could be essentially useless! One experiment of a similar product found that after nine rounds of use, some
insects became more than 11,000 fold resistant to the pesticide’s effects. Why risk so much for a product that might become rapidly ineffective against
its target, the Colorado potato beetle?
There’s also the concern of corporate control. Corporations developing these
gene-silencing pesticides claim they should have ownership of any organisms ( and their offspring ) on which the pesticide is sprayed, even if the spraying is off-target and
unintentional. This would give biotech companies expansive property rights over nature!
Ask yourself, Friend: Do you really want this new
pesticide on the market? Sprayed into our environment and on farms where people
are working? Me neither – but the EPA gave you just 15 days total to make your voice heard. Send your message now before this reckless pesticide approval is rammed
through!
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[[link removed]]Standing with you,
Dana Perls
Senior food & agriculture program manager,
Friends of the Earth
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