Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Por Silvia Ribeiro Los cultivos transgénicos no representan solamente una amenaza al medio ambiente y la salud. Además son un mal negocio, para cualquiera, salvo las seis trasnacionales dueñas de las semillas transgénicas a nivel global y algunos de los funcionarios y científicos que reciben prebendas para que ellas puedan continuar con sus ganancias. En [...]
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Silvia Ribeiro Es grave e irresponsable el intento de FAO de legitimar los transgénicos como solución al hambre y la crisis climática en el tercer mundo, cuya expresión más reciente es la conferencia Biotecnologías agrícolas en los países en desarrollo (Guadalajara, México, 14 de marzo). Frente a las críticas que van en aumento, los funcionarios [...]
Monday, December 7th, 2009
It is the mad dash for Copenhagen. I am leaving Montreal for the international summit tomorrow although the conference actually got underway today. In between urgent emails over the weekend I found the time to take my ten year old daughter and two of her friends to see A Christmas Carol, a Geordie Theatre production [...]
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro* La Academia Americana de Medicina Ambiental (AAEM, por sus siglas en inglés), hizo pública en mayo 2009 su posición sobre los alimentos transgénicos. “Por la salud y la seguridad de los consumidores” llaman a establecer urgentemente una “moratoria a los alimentos genéticamente modificados y la implementación inmediata de pruebas independientes y de largo [...]
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 [...]
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Silvia Ribeiro Una empresa semillera estadunidense presentó una solicitud para patentar las calabazas. ¿Suena a cuento? Lamentablemente, si la Oficina de Marcas y Patentes de Estados Unidos (USPTO) concede la patente US20080301830, la realidad habrá superado nuevamente a la ficción. La empresa Siegers Seed Company, con base en Michigan, Estados Unidos, pretende lograr el monopolio [...]
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 [...]
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