From: Mitchel Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:46 PM
Subject: [IWW-News] Our Genetic Engineering Book Published!
AVAILABLE IN MARCH -- JUST PUBLISHED!
$19.95 soft-cover, from Zed Press, Great Britain
Distributed in US by St. Martin's, and in Canada, S. Africa, Australia, and
several other countries. (Brian, Mitchel & several others who wrote
chapters in this book are available for team speaking engagements beginning
in March
Redesigning Life?
The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
Edited by Brian Tokar
Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont and Godard College
Today we appear to be on the threshold of the Age of Biotechnology. Genetic
engineering, animal cloning and new reproductive technologies are being
promoted as the keys to a brighter future. Genetic engineers promise a more
productive agriculture, wondrous medical miracles and solutions to our most
pressing environmental problems.
But growing numbers of farmers, scientists and concerned citizens disagree.
There is growing evidence that genetically engineered foods are hazardous
to our health and the environment. Farmers all over the world encounter an
increasingly monopolized seed and agrichemical industry. Animal cloning and
human genetic engineering raise troubling ethical questions. And genes from
plants, animals and humans have become objects to bought, sold and patented
by private interests. A growing worldwide resistance to genetic engineering
and other new biotechnologies has brought these issues to the forefront of
public controversy in many countries.
This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the hidden hazards
of the new genetic technologies, and the emergence of worldwide resistance.
Twenty-six internationally respected critics offer their analysis of the
issues, their social and ethical implications, and what people are doing in
response. Redesigning Life? is essential reading for everyone who seeks to
understand the full story that lies behind today's headlines.
'In this wide-ranging collection, scientists and activists discuss the
pressing issues growing out of the wanton commercialization of the life
sciences. With clear and up-to-date examples, the authors illustrate the
dangers inherent in the unfettered manipulation of plant , animal and human
biology for health and societal wellbeing. But, they also document the
growing world-wide resistance to attempts to engineer life in all its
forms. An excellent guide to the brave new world of genetic engineering and
to effective ways to counter and transcend it.' - Ruth Hubbard, Professor
Emerita of Biology at Harvard University, Board Member of the Council for
Responsible Genetics
"The biotechnology industry has taken us beyond natural evolution into the
unknown terrain of a never-to-be-natural-again world, with self-replicating
novel constructs of recombinant DNA that have never existed before...
Science without ethics is blind, and biotechnology without bioethics is a
danger to all... The excellent and wide-ranging coverage of this complex
subject by the contributors to this book will help us all awaken to the
costs and potentially harmful, even catastrophic consequences of this new
technology...' - Dr. Michael W. Fox, Senior Scholar, Bioethics, The Humane
Society of the United States, Washington, DC
'A deeply-researched, cutting edge critique of today's headlong rush toward
genetic engineering and the ways in which a few corporate "Gene Giants"
gained control. Penetrating insights into these corporate actors and their
research and patenting strategies to dominate global food supplies, pirate
the planet's biodiversity, the human genome and the keys to life itself.
Startling reading for all who are working to check global economic
predators and help shape an equitable, ecologically sustainable humane
future.' - Hazel Henderson, author, Beyond Globalization and Building A
Win-Win World
'We are involved in a global war called genetic engineering. Most of us
are totally unprepared too fight this war. Reading Redesigning Life is
mandatory if you want you and your offspring to enjoy life as we have known
it. It is a must read.' - Howard F. Lyman, President, EarthSave International
Contents
Introduction: Challenging Biotechnology - Brian Tokar
Part 1 - Our Health, Our Food and the Environment
1. From Golden Rice to Terminator Technology: Why Agricultural
Biotechnology Will Not Feed the World or Save the Environment - Martha
L. Crouch
2. Genetically Engineered 'Vitamin A Rice': A Blind Approach to
Blindness Prevention - Vandana Shiva
3. Cloning Profits: The Revolution in Agricultural Biotechnology -
Sonja Schmitz
4. Genetically Engineered Foods: A Minefield of Safety Hazards -
Jennifer Ferrara and Michael K. Dorsey
5. Safety First: Controlling the Risks of Biotechnology - Beth Burrows
6. Ecological Consequences of Genetic Engineering - Ricarda
Steinbrecher
7. Biotechnology to the Rescue? Why Biotechnology is Incompatible with
a Sustainable Agriculture - Jack Kloppenburg Jr. and Beth Burrows
8. Engineered Trees: From Native Forest to Frankenforest - Orin
Langelle
Part 2 - Medical Genetics, Science, and Human Rights
9. The Case Against Designer Babies: The Politics of Genetic
Enhancement - Marcy Darnovsky
10. Cancer as (Not) a Genetic Disease - Barbara Katz Rothman
11. If Cloning is the Answer, What was the Question? Genetics and the
Politics of Human Health - Sarah Sexton
12. Eugenic Tendencies in Modern Genetics - David King
13. If Pigs Could Fly, They Would: The Problems of Xenotransplantation
- Alix Fano
14. Reproductive Technology: Welcome to the Brave New World - Zo� C.
Meleo-Erwin
15. Is Violence in Your Genes? The Violence Initiative Project: Coming
Soon to an Inner City Near You - Mitchel Cohen
Part 3 - Patents, Corporate Power and the Theft of Knowledge
16. Gene Giants: Understanding the Life Industry - Hope Shand
17. Patents, Ethics and Spin - Beth Burrows
18. Biotechnology and Indigenous Peoples - Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
19. Shams, Shamans and the Commercialization of Biodiversity - Michael
K. Dorsey
20. Biopiracy: The Theft of Biological Knowledge and Resources -
Vandana Shiva
21. Exclusive Rights, Enclosure and the Patenting of Life - Kimberly
Wilson
22. Paving the Way for Biotechnology: Federal Regulations and Industry
P.R. - Jennifer Ferrara
23. Biotechnology and the New World Order - Mitchel Cohen
Part 4 - The Worldwide Resistence to Genetic Engineering
24. Resisting the Engineering of Life - Brian Tokar
25. Princes, Aliens, Superheroes and Snowballs: The Playful World of
the UK Genetic Resistance - Jim Thomas
26. Seed Satyagraha: A Movement for Farmers' Rights and Freedoms in a
World of Intellectual Property Rights, Globalized Agriculture and
Biotechnology - Vandana Shiva
27. Europe: Hostile Lands for GMOs: Why do Europeans Reject Genetic
Engineering More Fiercely than Americans? - Thomas Schweiger
28. No Patents on Life: The Incredible 10 Year Campaign against the
European Patent Directive - Steve Emmott
29. No to Bovine Growth Hormone: A Story of Resistance from Canada -
Lucy Sharratt
30. Cooperatives: A Source of Community Strength - Robin Seydel
31. McDonalds, MTV, and Monsanto
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