{"article":{"id":7663,"heading":"Drawing: Andrew Kimbrell speaks about the GE industries irrational motives","author":"sparckle1","created":"2001-06-24 21:35:26","modified":"2005-08-15 00:35:11","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:35:11","article":"<p>Andrew spoke about how, among other things, certain genes and cells that are part of the process that cause breast cancer are owned by individual corporations.  He posits that becuase the use off this information is limited by the companies that own these cells and genes,  it chills research that could be done by other companies who don't own these properties.  He and many others at the conference wonder why it is that a company can own a naturaly occuring cell when they occur everywhere, in my body, your body, etc...<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"www.iatc.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Andrew Kimbrell, a lawyer and member of The Center for Technology Assessment  and The Center for Food Safety.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/06\/beard.jpeg","filesize":"28.3 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/06\/7663.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/06\/beard.jpeg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":7669,"heading":"Slavery, Freedom & \"work\"!","article":"  The basic contradiction has long been clear - \"Its' a free country\" -\"but you must WORK\"!\r\nWhy? SO YOU CAN EAT - is the most common answer! EAT to LIVE! The \"coda\".\r\n- O.K. - So they call it \"the social contract\" - you help me produce this - I give you money to buy FOOD, etc.\r\n- This includes VOTING for a representative of your RIGHTS and GOALS (usually to work less, better conditions, or even to get REALLY FREE!)\r\n- This \"theory\" affects everyone as concrete fact in the way they live and survive.\r\n- Now that \"social contract\" - no matter how lop-sided in favor of the employer (now MNCs) they have been - in spite of all struggles for rights, higher wages, etc.HAS BEEN DISSOLVED!\r\n- BY FEEDING YOU THE DEATH OF BIOTECH - THE BASIC CONTRACT HAS BEEN ANNULLED!\r\n- You are all now in a struggle to survive: PICK YOUR GROUND as best you can!\r\n- Organic farm sound good? Pesticides, G.M.O.-pollen blow over everything now - perhaps the highest mountains are still nearly free from the GENETIC POLLUTION.\r\n- Eat organic? While keepng your job? MIGHT WORK FOR AWHILE - NOT LONG: BETTER MAKE PLANS!\r\n- Join an \"Affinity group\" and go to protests\"? Lots' of \"expression\", but many get \"picked off\" & spend \"time\" (& it ain't \"organic\" there!)\r\n\r\nDIRECT ACTION:DIRECT ACTION:DIRECT ACTION: -ever and always the focalized option:\r\n  SAVE THE WORLD!!! (& yourself at the same time...maybe....)","author":"GREENtide","parent_id":7663,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-06-24 22:04:33","modified":"2001-06-24 22:18:27","fileurl":""}]}