CTNBio Meeting to Approve GE Trees Cancelled – FuturaGene Taken Over

'BREAKING NEWS: BRAZILIANS RISE UP AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES. 300 peasants, organized by La Via Campesina, took over the building where the Brazil National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) was meeting to decide on the approval of GE eucalyptus trees. The meeting was cancelled. On the same morning in Itapetininga, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1,000 women of the Brazil Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) took over operations of Futuragene, the developer of GE trees, and destroyed GE eucalyptus seedlings. When the Brazilians say they don’t want GE trees, they mean it.

READ the whole story, in English: http://stopgetrees.org/victory-ctnbio-occupied-meeting-cancelled-no-approval-ge-trees/

READ, in Portuguese (with video): http://www.mst.org.br/2015/03/05/apos-ocupacao-na-suzano-outros-300-camponeses-ocupam-predio-da-ctnbio-em-bsb.html

WATCH the video: http://youtu.be/M7K-xJyvek8

#StopGETrees #Brazil #GETrees #GMTrees #GMOTrees #EucalyptusTrees #CTNBio #Futuragene #gmofreebrazil #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa'

March 5, 2015, stopgetrees.org | “On the morning of 5 March 2015, 1,000 women from the MST took over operations of genetically engineered tree company Futuragene in Brazil.

“BREAKING NEWS: BRAZILIANS RISE UP AGAINST GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES. 300 peasants, organized by La Via Campesina, took over the building where the Brazil National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) was meeting to decide on the approval of GE eucalyptus trees. The meeting was cancelled. On the same morning in Itapetininga, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1,000 women of the Brazil Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) took over operations of Futuragene, the developer of GE trees, and destroyed GE eucalyptus seedlings. When the Brazilians say they don’t want GE trees, they mean it.”

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