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 [...]
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Testimony of Pat Mooney Executive Director of ETC Group Before the Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources-regarding Bill C-33 (the “Biofuels Bill”) Senate of Canada Wednesday, June 25, 2008 Thank you. I will begin by confessing that I am not an expert on biofuels. I feel as though my life has been [...]
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Review by Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group. —– In October 1996, a spokesman for Monsanto told Farm Journal why his company was buying up seed companies left and right: “What you’re seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it’s really a consolidation of the entire food chain.” Today, Monsanto is the [...]
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
The BP-Berkeley deal, the new joint Bio Energy institute, and also the recent job hop by John Menlo of BP fuels to Amyris Biotech – are all extra strings tying the interests of the Syn Bio community as a wholeever closer to the interests of big business. It should be noted that in each of thse cases CEO Keasling plays a central role. The same man who claims to be developing Synthetic Biology to serve the worlds poor (via synthetic artemisinin) seems to be rather busy these days serving the fabulously rich.
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