The “artificial burgers,” made from “artificial meat,” have already reached the shelves of grocery stores: with the right processing, the right additives, the right flavorings, and, of course, the right …
Bill Gates’ radical menu for food systems: ultra-processed foods, patents, monocultures
If Bill Gates gets his way, food in the future will look very little like what exists on our plates today. Gates and his partners in the agricultural industry propose …
Bayer, Monsanto and Big Data: Who will control our food system in the era of digital agriculture and major mergers?
With the upcoming mega-merger between Bayer and Monsanto and the rise of digital agriculture and data-driven farming, our agricultural system is on the verge of a paradigm shift. According to …
The seeds of despair
Bayer. Perhaps the largest chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology company in the world, leading in every sector it operates. Monsanto. Perhaps the largest agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company in the world, responsible …
Mutated forests
The idea is relatively old: our forests have a problem, natural trees are problematic, so let’s replace them with genetically engineered… What problem did the watchful eye of biotechnologists detect …
Electric starch
Chinese biotechnologists, from the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, announced last fall the first (global) laboratory construction of starch from carbon dioxide. While biotechnologists in the West have focused on …
Seeds of slavery, seeds of despair, seeds of suicide
These are the names given to the genetically modified cotton seeds of Monsanto that now dominate more than 90% of India’s cotton crops. Until the spread of genetically modified hybrids, …
new genome intervention technologies: european capitalisms strike back…
The following text, apart from being a section of a small tribute to (and against) genetic engineering, has a specific anti-informational significance. It is the official summary of a large …
“New forest”
The “new normal” has many “new” things. It is a “Pandora’s container” according to the specifications of the 4th industrial revolution. And the deadly naivety with which genetic engineering was …
Health on your plate!
FReSH (initials standing for Food Reform for Sustainability and Health) is a benevolent initiative of the “World Business Council” to restructure the world’s food system; and to make companies adapt …
Insect allies
Besides teaching robotic weapons the joy of cooperation and initiative, the American DARPA, the technological arm of the U.S. military, wants to genetically modify (and mass-produce) insects to enlist them …
farmers in offices
What urban farming? That’s old news. Let’s go for office farming! The Japanese company Pasona group, which specializes in providing advice on personnel selection and management and work organization, offers …