Blog #3

Blog #3

This world has been sustained for billions of years within its own natural capability to create water, plants etc. to make the earth for what it is. The United States Department of Agriculture is considering planting genetically engineered eucalyptus trees. These GE Trees were developed by ArborGen Biotechnology Corporation to provide materials to create paper and wood pallets that fuel power plants around the world. Director of Center for Food Safety “ Bebbie Barker” Announced that  “ Factory forest will accelerate and expand large scale, chemical intensive, monoculture plantations. We need to understand the risk in order to determine if GE trees are sustainable way forward or a dangerous diversion” In addition to this report there has been a report that GE trees would pose a threat to natural trees in the surrounding area due to the capability to spread pollen and seeds in great distances which would harm natural trees by contaminating them by pest, pathogens risking the life span on US forest. Another negative out come with these genetically engineered trees would be that they consume twice as much more water than natural trees due, Another environment risk is that burning GE wood pellets could slow the climate change. Regardless to all the environmental risk with the outcome of GE trees the USDA will consider to use GE trees despite the risk. My opinion is that scientist shouldn’t mess with mother earth and start to create fake trees because all its doing is hurting our environment than sooner it’s going hurt us.

·         The information source I used was the internet and the site is called RT News.

·         This is a reliable site because most of the news is not filtered like how most news sources are.

·         The Russians are the ones who own the website and post news from all over the world and important news on technology and science.

·         The website is reliable because it’s a nonprofit organization that’s posts up honest news from around the world.

·         My reaction to this article was very interesting because as is we eat and consume GMO products for example food and fruits that have been made in a lab for human consumption. My feelings on that are scary because we don’t really know what we are eating and can cause illness. In addition to GMO now the government is taking bigger risk on hurting our environment by producing factory forest to create materials and bio fuels to power etc.  Another negative outcome would be that it would affect our natural trees that produce our oxygen. I feel that humans are destroying this world with bio engineering.

Web page/ Source

http://rt.com/usa/genetically-engineered-usda-harm-environment-404/