Food and Technology
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
Our farms and food are one of our most important connections to our environment. Yet as corporate agribusiness expands its control over our agricultural system and increasingly uses toxic chemicals and risky technologies to produce our food, our environment and health are threatened as is our ability to produce food sustainably.
Our farms and food are one of our most important connections to our environment. Yet as corporate agribusiness expands its control over our agricultural system and increasingly uses toxic chemicals and risky technologies to produce our food, our environment and health are threatened as is our ability to produce food sustainably.
Friends of the Earth is leading the charge to ensure our food system
is just and sustainable. The campaigns within our food and technology
project also pressure governments to embrace the safe and precautionary
management of emerging technologies, including nanotechnology and
synthetic biology, which are appearing in more consumer products such as
food, cosmetics and sunscreens each year.
Genetic engineering
We are working to keep genetically engineered "frankenfish" -- which
would be the first genetically engineered animal approved for human
consumption -- off of grocery store shelves.
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Nanotechnology
We advocate for policies to protect the public from the risks posed
by the increasing use of nanomaterials in cosmetics, sunscreens and a
plethora of other consumer products.
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Synthetic biology
We are pushing for proper government oversight of synthetic biology
-- a largely unregulated and rapidly developing biotechnology that
involves engineering new organisms from scratch.
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Gene patents
We
are working to ban the patenting of human genes, which unjustly give
corporations control over research and potentially life-saving tests and
treatments drawn from these fundamental building blocks of life.
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