Bioprospecting

Corporations profit from indigenous genes

By Jeff Shaw

You can’t own a Hagahai man from Papua New Guinea, not even if you’re a scientist. As a scientist you can, however, have part of him delivered to your door for $200 plus $81.50 in shipping and handling. When you call the American Type Culture [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Primal People in N. America should gather together and secede from the U.S. of Amnesia within the next 10 years. It should be done officially _only_ at the U.N.  Corporations and their military arm, the Pentagon, know well that the ecosystems upon which _all_ life depends are under severe threat and are desperate to seek ways to survive the coming collapse.  Genetic modification, they believe, can help ‘pale-ones’ outlive and survive it.  Its no wonder that primal people were the first target. 

      The Primal reverence for _all_ life is meaningless to them.  Its time to secede and return to the subsistence ways of our ancestors, away from the gaudy casinos, as many tribes have already done.  The future will only be viable in what are now called “reservations.”

      Sure its a “pipe dream.”  But after what they did in Miami to peaceful folk, the future does not look healthy at all.  Protect the chidren.  Get them out of the cities and back to the land.  Work together, or they will steal our very soul, again.

    United States Posted by daigu on Nov 27, 2003 at 12:49 AM

    Jeff Shaw consistently produces engaging, concise and timely analyses of key issues facing humanity.  He is the top contributor to In These Times right now. 

    This story’s highlight of American “lifestyle diseases” driving biocolonialism offers further evidence of this privileged culture’s aching need for utter disintegration.

    In a more practical and short-term perspective, it certainly argues for staunch resistance to the U.S. Trade Representative’s relentless push for liberalized intellectual property rights agreements through the WTO and bilateral arrangements with selected nations.

    United States Posted by Jay Lininger on Dec 1, 2003 at 10:12 PM
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