Contributor
Tokar, Brian.
Imprint:London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed by Palgrave, 2001.
Description440 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction : challenging biotechnology / Brian Tokar -- From golden rice to terminator technology : agricultural biotechnology will not feed the world or save the environment / Martha L. Crouch -- Genetically engineered "vitamin A rice" : a blind approach to blindness prevention / Vandana Shiva -- Cloning profits: the revolution in agricultural biotechnology / Sonja A. Schmitz -- Genetically engineered foods: a minefield of safety hazards / Jennifer Ferrara, Michael K. Dorsey -- Safety first / Beth Burrows -- Ecological consequences of genetic engineering / Ricarda A. Steinbrecher -- Biotechnology to the rescue? : ten reasons why biotechnology is incompatible with sustainable agriculture / Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., Beth Burrows -- From native forest to Frankenforest / Orin Langelle -- The case against designer babies : the politics of genetic enhancement / Marcy Darnovsky -- Cancer is (not) a genetic disease / Barbara Katz Rothman -- If cloning is the answer, what was the question? : genetics and the politics of human health / Sarah Sexton -- Eugenic tendencies in modern genetics / David King -- If pigs could fly, they would : the problems with xenotransplantation / Alix Fano -- Reproductive technology : welcome to the brave new world / Zoe C. Meleo-Erwin -- Is violence in your genes? : the Violence Initiative Project, coming soon to an inner city near you / Mitchel Cohen -- Gene giants : understanding the "life industry" / Hope Shand -- Patients, ethics, and spin / Beth Burrows -- Biotechnology and indigenous peoples / Victoria Tauli-Corpuz -- Shams, shamans, and the commercialization of biodiversity / Michael K. Dorsey -- Biopiracy : the theft of knowledge and resources / Vandana Shiva -- Exlusive rights, enclosure, and the patenting of life / Kimberly A. Wilson -- Paving the way for biotechnology : Federal regulations and industry PR / Jennifer Ferrara -- Biotechnology and the new world order / Mitchel Cohen -- Resisting the engineering of life / Brian Tokar -- Princes, aliens, superheroes, and snowballs : the playful world of the UK genetic resistence / Jim Thomas -- Seed Satyagraha : a movement for farmers' rights and freedoms in a world of intellectual property rights, globalized agriculture, and biotechnology / Vandana Shiva -- Europe : hostile lands for GMOs / Thomas G. Schweiger -- No patents on life : the incredible ten-year campaign against the European patent directive / Steve Emmott -- No to bovine growth hormone : ten years of resistence in Canada / Lucy Sharratt -- Cooperatives : a source of community strength / Robin Seydel -- McDonald's, MTV, and Monsanto : resisting biotechnolgy in the age of informational capital / Chaia Heller.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
