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, …
life at the butcher’s counter
After years of confrontations and interstate disagreements, the majority of member states of the “assembly” of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (Convention on Biodiversity / COB) adopted [last November] …
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 …
the devil’s deal: usa, japan and biological warfare weapons
The Soviet Union had publicized the fact that Japan’s microbial warfare unit in World War II, Unit 731, had used American prisoners of war as experimental subjects. But the United …
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” …
replicon: the acceleration of the biotech attack
During the course of the hygiene campaign and the violent imposition of genetic engineering (through mRNA platforms), extensive denial emerged, even from people who were opposed to the campaign, to …
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 …
anthrobots: “the third state”
So far, robot swarms have been constructed from artificial materials. Mobile biological constructs have been created from muscle cells that develop on precisely shaped scaffolds. However, exploiting emergent self-organization and …
the organism is the product (synthetic biology and the creation of genetic tailoring)
In the 1990s, the Human Genome Project—concerned with the “decoding of human DNA”—promised to provide humanity with its “instruction manual”: a document that would forever clarify how the human organism …
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 …