{"id":163,"date":"2010-01-27T08:21:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theextremegardener.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:21:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:21:52","slug":"usda-stop-the-release-of-ge-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"USDA &#8211; Stop the release of GE trees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA has opened a public comment period about whether or not to allow &#8220;field trials&#8221; of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees in southeastern US. What the USDA decides in this case will set a precedent for other GE tree species. Pine and poplar are in the works, and one of the major traits the eucalyptus are being bred for is cold hardiness. I urge all US citizens that have any concern about a healthy diverse ecosystem and the continued survival of native species (plant, animal and fungi) in the future to read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaljusticeecology.org\/stopgetrees.php?ID=349&#038;tabs=2\">Global Justice Ecology Project<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/petition\/975162590\">sign the petition<\/a>. This is truly a Pandora&#8217;s box situation &#8211; if &#8220;field trials&#8221; are allowed, pollen and seed will be released into the environment.<br \/>\nThe public comment period closes February 18, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA has opened a public comment period about whether or not to allow &#8220;field trials&#8221; of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees in southeastern US. What the USDA decides in this case will set a precedent for other GE tree species. Pine and poplar are in the works, and one of the major traits the eucalyptus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theextremegardener.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}