New executive order involves what it calls “genetic modification” and “beneficial bacteria,” without identifying what will actually be released and without informed consent from citizens.
President Donald Trump ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a regulatory framework for the “planned development and release into the environment” of mosquito- and tick-control technologies, according to a September 29 executive order published by the White House.
The executive order says that framework must consider “sterilization techniques, safe genetic modification, and use of safe, beneficial bacteria.”
Where is the informed consent?
What exactly will be released?
What has been modified?
Which bacteria will be used?
What else will the resulting products contain or carry?
How far can they travel?
Who monitors unintended exposure?
Who is liable if something goes wrong?
And how does an American who does not consent keep a released organism off their body and off their property?
The executive order does not say.
I do not consent.
(Tom: If you are a US citizen there are links at the foot of the article for you to communicate your disagreement.)
Finish reading: https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/trump-orders-epa-framework-to-release