Mother Lode Chapter
Sierra Club

GE Committee

 

 

Genetic engineering (also called transgenic or genetically-modified) refers to a process that takes genetic material from an organism and artificially inserts it into an entirely separate organism.  This could never occur in nature.

 

For example, genes from fish have been inserted into strawberries.  Genes from bacteria have been inserted into corn, soy beans, and cotton.

 

The Genetic Engineering (GE) Committee works to educate consumers and businesses about the perils of genetically engineered food, trees, and fish.   More information about genetic engineering and the Sierra Club’s perspective on genetic engineering is available on the National Sierra Club's Genetic Engineering website:  www.sierraclub.org/biotech/

 

 

Within the Mother Lode Chapter, we have activists in three counties:

 

Nevada County - Rita deQuercus RitaDeQuercus@yahoo.com

 

Sacramento County - Olga Mandrussow Olga.Mandrussow@mlc.sierraclub.org or (916) 612-0559

 

Yolo County - Pam Nieberg Pam.Nieberg@mlc.sierraclub.org

 

We encourage you to contact the activist in the county nearest you, or – better yet – consider starting a GE Committee in your local Sierra Club Group!

 

 

Links to organizations that we work closely with:

 

Californians For GE-Free Agriculture www.calgefree.org/

 

Center For Food Safety www.centerforfoodsafety.org/

 

Genetic Engineering Policy Alliance www.gepolicyalliance.org/

 

 

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE:

 

Have a house party and show Debra Koon Garcia’s film The_Future_of_Food.  We will loan you a DVD or videotape.

 

Join the Sierra Club Biotech Forum Listserv on GE issues.

 

Borrow a book, video, DVD or CD-ROM on genetic engineering.  We’ll loan you a copy from our lending_library for up to three months.

 

If you would like a small_packet_of_information about genetic engineering to peruse at your leisure, we will mail it to you.

 

For your next tabling event or for distribution to friends, neighbors and colleagues, we will happily supply you with flyers or brochures about genetic engineering.

Please contact Olga Mandrussow about any of the above items.