Genetically Engineered Animals & Insects

Genetically engineered animals raise serious concerns for animal welfare, biodiversity, ecosystems, and public health.

Yet these animals and insects are being developed and approved without enough public oversight, transparency, or accountability. Friends of the Earth is working to raise awareness of these risks and push for stronger safeguards, independent review, and public input before genetically engineered animals and insects are released into the environment or added to our food system.

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GMO Livestock

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GMO Insects

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GMO Salmon

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New Report: Genetically Engineered Animals Increase Risks to Public Health, Animal Welfare

A new report from Friends of the Earth U.S. raises urgent concerns about the growing threat of genetically engineered (GE) animals in the U.S. food system.

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Stopping Genetically Engineered Salmon

Our advocacy made it crystal clear: People do not want to eat GE salmon and there is no place for this or other GE animals on the market.

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Genetically Engineered Salmon Production Ends as AquaBounty Shutters Last Facility

Following decades of controversy, widespread market rejection and legal and regulatory challenges, U.S.-based biotechnology and aquaculture company AquaBounty Technologies announced it will stop produ…

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Genetically Engineered Mosquito experiment in California’s Central Valley halted

Biotech corporation withdraws permit request in a win for agricultural communities threatened by risky insect mass release

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Florida approves risky release of billions of genetically engineered mosquitoes in scientifically flawed experiment

Overlooking potential public health risks, FDAC approved the release of several billion more genetically engineered mosquitoes.

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Genetically Engineered Mosquito Imminent Mass Release Ignores Science, Public Health and Environmental Risks

In defiance of science and public health concerns, today EPA approved the mass release of billions of experimental genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes into the United States’ most populous and ag…

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Resources

Genetically Engineered Livestock

This report, provides a scientific overview of the concerns with genetically engineered food animal experiments that are underway, and reveals the risks to human health, the environment and animal wel…

Di no a los mosquitos transgénicos en tu comunidad

Fact sheet on genetically engineered mosquitoes in Spanish

Say NO to Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in Your Community!

The EPA has approved the use of nearly 2 million genetically engineered mosquitoes in California, which will pose a risk to our health and the environment. You can help stop this by telling decisionma…

GE Mosquitoes Issue Brief

California is poised to be the second state where genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes are released, unless the public and California’s government officials demand otherwise. Earlier this year, ha…

Mosquitos Transgénicos

Se planea que California será el segundo estado de Estados Unidos donde se liberarán los mosquitos transgénicos, a menos de que el público y los funcionarios del gobierno de California exijan lo c…

Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes: Coming soon to Florida and Texas?

Oxitec has genetically engineered the Aedes aegypti mosquito, known to transmit tropical diseases like dengue fever, zika, and chikungunya.

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Genetically Engineered Animals & Insects