Andy Kimbrell, Andres Barreda, Vandana Shiva, Victoria Tauli Corpuz & Chaia Heller
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Andrew Kimbrell is a public interest attorney and author. He calls mechanization and marketing of life, and the corporate enclosure of the entire living commons, the most disturbing aspects of genetic engineering. Andres Barreda, a scholar and activist from Mexico says that in 1994, when NAFTA was signed, “the war began in my country.” Indigenous peoples in Mexico now find that the key to any hope for autonomy is the struggle against biodevastation.
Vandana Shiva from India says that the first colonialism was about land. Now bodies and lives are being appropriated and exploited. Life is not an area of capital accumulation. Victoria Tauli Corpuz is an indigenous activist from the Philippines. She shows how so-called environmental organizations are involved in bio-piracy. Chaia Heller says that biotechnology is about power and democracy and has to be seen as part of a vast, international network that consists of governments, trade bodies, scientists, marketers, and advertisers. (2002)
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Food & Genetic Engineering
Organic Food VS Genetic Engineering
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Part A: Peter Rosset, Brewster and Cathleen Kneen
Side B: Vandana Shiva and Brian Leahy
The program begins with a list of myths about genetic engineered food presented by Food First director Peter Rosset. Brewster Kneen, former goat farmer and publisher of the Ramshorn says that our foods and the systems by which they are grown and distributed are being deliberately contaminated by genetic pollution. His wife, Cathleen Kneen, reminds us that eating is very personal. The food becomes our body. Food is the basis of culture and community.
Vandana Shiva from India reminds us of the impact of the Green Revolution that was imposed on the Third World. She found in her research that this “revolution” did not produce more food, but poisoned the land with chemicals and created population explosions of insects. Brian Leahy is the Executive Director of California Certified Organic Farmers, CCOF. He invites us to take a closer look at the food in a supermarket, to see that this is food for a dead culture. (2002)
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