>Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:13:55 -0500 >From: "Drusha L. Mayhue" <drusha@montana.campuscw.net> >Subject: You've got to be kidding!!! >To: CCL-DISCUSSION@LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG > >------------------------- CCL-DISCUSSION Message --------------------------- >
>>From CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, Biodiversity Alert # 196:
> >SILENT SPRING 2: THE TERMINATOR TREE > >Shell and Monsanto are developing a new tree for the future, known as the >"GM Tree." This tree will not provide food for bugs, birds, or mammals. >This tree will not have flowers, produce pollen, or yield any fruits >whatsoever, it won't even reproduce itself. They claim the tree will be the >perfect timber producer. Their vision is huge plantations of sterile, >fast-growing, bug-proof trees. They claim this will relieve, the pressure >on natural forests to produce the worlds demand for lumber. > >However, current lumber producing plantations do not even come close to >relieving the pressure. Ecologists and environmentalists are concerned that >GM Tress will only increase the demand to replace vast acres of natural >forest with lifeless trees. > >Field testing of these trees has already begun in the United States and >Europe. What would spring be like in a future with out biologically diverse >forests? No birds chirping, no cicadas buzzing, and no squirrels and >chipmunks calling, just silence.
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