The construction (and promotion) of “synthetic tissues” as food is moving forward: companies that obtain the relevant licenses (4 so far in the US) are fueled by the desire to …
Squeeze the cockroaches!
You may have your reservations about those whom the Establishment had early on characterized as specialized idiots – unless, of course, you are one of them… However, from a more …
Business ownership in everything!
The recognition of “intellectual property” (i.e. industrial/commercial exploitation) in genetic material (and therefore in life forms) is supposedly acknowledged only if some technical intervention has been made to it. These …
Scissors in the drawer
It has been hailed as the “elixir of life” for genetic engineering. It is touted as the “ultimate surgery” on a cellular scale. It is the legendary CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing method, …
Hunting cloned sheep and other postmodern biotechnological absurdities
Sheep have been domesticated for about 12,000 years. Sheep have also been cloned since 1996 – Dolly was the first mammal to undergo this procedure. But this news appeared in …
Symmetrical life
Those who worship modern technology, the most capitalist kind, will increasingly struggle to keep up with it; yet they will only consume its dust. One of the most recent “achievements” …
Catastrophic method failure!
Just a few years ago, a study bearing the prestigious signature of Columbia University’s Medical Center revealed that the highly publicized (and Nobel Prize-winning) genetic cut-and-paste method called CRISPR/Cas9 is …
Biohackers encoded malware in a strand of DNA
When biologists synthesize DNA, it is assumed that they take care not to create or spread a dangerous piece of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin …
Big Tech enter the food game
Do not trust the new UN campaign, “Food Systems Coordination Hub”, regarding the “transformation of food systems for global health”. The current corporate agenda, which is supported by this new …
Two discussions on the digitalization of the food system
The following dialogues are transcribed text from the first two episodes of a podcast series by the ETC group (www.etcgroup.org), which began in the summer of 2023, titled “Who Will …
The case of the state of Georgia
You may have noticed a rather serious upheaval that has emerged in recent weeks in the state of Georgia. Its government has introduced a law (similar versions exist both in …
Gene pool…
The so-called “liberation” of genetically modified organisms, now baptized as “new genomic techniques”, is underway… And one of the fundamental impudences of its supporters is the corruption of the concept …