Genetically engineered crops have raised widespread controversy throughout the industrialized world due to growing evidence of serious environmental, public health, and socio-economic consequences. Critics in the global South, however, have raised many of the most pointed and systemic critiques of the technology as a whole. While the biotechnology industry's $50 million per year advertising campaign paints this technology as the savior of the world's hungry masses, activists and critics throughout the world have argued that this is very far from the case.
This four-day intensive study, January 4 to the 8th, will provide participants with a deeper understanding of the politics, science, and economics of biotechnology, and the connections between biotechnology, racism, and agriculture. The course will also offer a critical perspective on the developing political opposition to biotechnology worldwide. For more information, please visit the ISE web site at http://www.social-ecology.org/jump.php?id=55, contact us at (802) 454-8493, or send us an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] To register, please send a $25 deposit before December 15, 2001 to the Institute for Social Ecology.
