Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
I am still in the Bella Centre, still tracking technology negotiations. That means I have a magical “secondary pass” unlike thousands of other NGOs who cannot get into the building today. Technology is supposed to be the “easy issue”, on which there will possibly be an agreement, evoked by both the Danish Presidency and the [...]
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro* El pasado 11 de mayo, el Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (Inmegen) presentó en un acto mediático, con la presencia entusiasta de Felipe Calderón, el llamado “Mapa del genoma de los mexicanos”. Se presentó como un gran avance científico, vinculándolo oportunistamente hasta con el estudio del virus de la gripe porcina. Obviaron sin [...]
Saturday, May 9th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro* Pese a la manipulación de información por parte de autoridades e industria, es inocultable que el actual virus de gripe porcina (ahora asépticamente llamado de influenza A/H1N1) tiene su origen en la producción industrial de animales. Las autoridades conocían la amenaza de pandemia, pero no dieron importancia a los avisos de instituciones científicas [...]
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Publicado en La Jornada, México, 28 de abril 2009 La nueva epidemia de influenza porcina que día a día amenaza con expandirse a más regiones del mundo, no es un fenómeno aislado. Es parte de la crisis generalizada, y tiene sus raíces en el sistema de cría industrial de animales, dominado por grandes empresas trasnacionales. [...]
Monday, April 13th, 2009
*Silvia Ribeiro ALAI AMLATINA, 13/04/2009, México D. F.- La gran industria farmacéutica se ha destacado desde sus orígenes por la búsqueda inescrupulosa de lucro. Por muchos años fue el sector industrial con mayor porcentaje de ganancias. Al 2008, diez empresas controlaban 55 por ciento del mercado global de farmacéuticos: Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi-Aventis, Roche, AstraZeneca, Johnson [...]
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro* El 6 de marzo, el gobierno mexicano anunció que consideraba terminado (en todos los sentidos de la palabra) el marco legal de bioseguridad en México, abriendo las puertas a la experimentación con maíz transgénico. Un delito histórico, que marca la decisión del gobierno de enajenar y colocar en alto riesgo el patrimonio genético [...]
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Written for The Ecologist – February 2009 available online at http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=2053 Somebody somewhere has to have a cunning plan to fix our environmental problems and save the world – right? Jim Thomas sorts through the big tech ideas you’ll be reading about this year Almost every day sees new technologies being proposed to fix old problems. [...]
Friday, November 7th, 2008
Jim Thomas Written for The Ecologist – November 2008 Don’t be fooled by The Cloud – the world of the internet seems weightless, but it is leaving an increasingly heavy footprint behind it Do you know where your email is stored and what it costs the environment to store it there? For millions of people [...]
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Written for The Ecologist – 20/07/2008 If radical vegan Ingrid Newkirk has her way, the nouvelle cuisine on vegetarian menus in five years time may be a big juicy steak. Newkirk, founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has offered a $1 million prize to whoever can scale-up stem cell [...]
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Biofuels fuel global food crisis Toronto Star/star.com July 08, 2008 PAT MOONEY As G8 leaders meet this week in Japan, their ears will still be ringing from the bombshell dropped last week in a leaked World Bank report declaring that biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75 per cent, far higher than previously [...]
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