Dear John ,

Soon our wild places and communities could be overrun with millions of
experimental GMO mosquitoes.

GMO mosquitoes pose risks to human health and could disrupt fragile ecosystems
in unpredictable ways.

Trump’s EPA is considering allowing the release of millions of GMO mosquitoes in
Florida and Texas. The EPA could stop this dangerous experiment, but it’s
ignoring scientists’ warnings about likely impacts on our health and
environment, and is keeping the public in the dark about the details. We need
your help to stop this reckless experiment, John!

Take action now: Tell the EPA to keep GMO mosquitoes out of our environment!
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The genetic engineering corporation that created GMO mosquitoes -- Oxitec -- is
a subsidiary of Intrexon, the same company that owns GMO apples and is a major
investor in GMO salmon. The company wants us to believe these mosquitoes will
help reduce the spread of diseases like zika and dengue by reducing mosquito
populations, but the data shows that they don’t reduce population sizes. In
fact, new research shows that in some places where GMO mosquitoes were released,
the mosquito populations actually increased.

The Center for Disease Control even noted that Oxitec’s trials are not set up to
test for disease reduction -- making them totally pointless!

Moreover, scientists have found that GMO mosquitoes can breed with wild
mosquitoes, creating hybrid mosquitoes that may spread more viruses and be more
resistant to insecticides. In other words, GMO mosquitoes could make public
health problems even worse.

Trump’s EPA wants the American public to take Oxitec’s word that their GMO
insects are safe, without any independent assessment. The EPA must protect us
from the potentially devastating threats GMO mosquitoes pose -- especially when
there hasn’t even been adequate research.

Keep untested GMO mosquitoes out of our environment: Tell the EPA to protect
people and the planet, not industry profits!
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Once millions of these mosquitoes are released into the environment, they cannot
be “recalled.” And despite Oxitec’s claims that its GMO mosquitoes could help
end devastating diseases, there is not a clear case to demonstrate this outcome.

Oxitec doesn’t want you to know that there are promising and less costly
alternatives to addressing mosquito-borne diseases with far fewer risks. It just
wants to secure public dollars for its potentially disastrous experiment .

Our environment and our communities should not be a testing ground for risky new
GMOs. We shouldn’t wait until after GMO mosquitoes are released to figure out
the risks. With your help, John, we can stop these
experimental mosquitoes before they are released from labs into our environment.

Tell the EPA: Don’t bend to pressure from Oxitec! Stop the experiment and say NO
to releasing GMO mosquitoes!
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Standing with you,
Dana Perls
Senior food and technology campaigner
Friends of the Earth, U.S

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