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\"According to the United Nations, we're already producing enough food\r\nto feed one and a half times the world population with an adequate, nutritious\r\ndiet. The fact that the US government and the people of BIO 2001 are arguing\r\nthat a genetically engineered future is the solution is just diverting\r\nattention from the real causes of hunger, the real causes of poverty, the\r\nreal causes of ill health, the fact that most people in this world still\r\ndon't have access to clean water\".-Luke Anderson<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
\"If we're really serious about improving the health care of millions\r\nof people on this planet, we can do so. But that takes political change.\r\nThat takes change from the bottom up. That takes people demanding that\r\ntheir right to equality on this planet is not only answered but acted on\".-Luke\r\nAnderson<\/b>\r\n
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Americans don't know about biotechnology. They don't know that they're\r\neating it, they don't know they're drinking it. They don't know that these\r\nare the technologies that are shaping their medical futures. We are here\r\nto counter that trend. We're here to build awareness and to give people\r\nthe opportunity to learn what this technology is. -Chaia Heller, professor\r\nof Ecological Philosophy at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont:<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
I've done observations in both open- and closed-air research facilities\r\nand you'd be astounded to see people walking around with trans-genetic\r\npollen on their clothing and walking right out of the laboratory. And the\r\nidea that you can have an open-air field test that is contained is ridiculous.-Chaia\r\nHeller, professor of Ecological Philosophy at the Institute for Social\r\nEcology in Vermont:<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
I think this is very, very dangerous. Once you introduce biologically\r\nmodified organisms into the environment, at a certain point you cannot\r\ngo backwards. This is going to affect people for generations to come. So\r\nI think our challenge is to make the links between biotechnology and the\r\npeople across the border who are living under colonial conditions. Those\r\nissues are inextricably connected.-Chaia Heller, professor of Ecological\r\nPhilosophy at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont:<\/b>\r\n<\/p>
When you really understand what biotechnology is, it's not just a technology\r\nthat's rearranging the food supply and medical products for generations\r\nto come. It's a new mode of capitalist production. The same capitalist\r\nsystem that is producing biotechnology that is creating the kind of trade\r\nwars and the kind of economic structures that are keeping people impoverished\r\nall over the world. It's the same system.-Chaia Heller, professor of\r\nEcological Philosophy at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont:<\/b>\r\n
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We don't believe that genetically modified organisms in their untested\r\nstate should be coming into our bodies or into our food system or into\r\nthe environment.-Group of young women from the Bay Area:<\/b>\r\n
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The issue is commodification of life itself. Humans can only exist as\r\npart of a community and that's not just a human community, but an ecological\r\nbiosphere community. For any one person to try to say they own something\r\nlike that and to try to put a patent on something and put a dollar value\r\non it is to pretty much deny what makes us human.-Group of young women\r\nfrom the Bay Area:<\/b>\r\n
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All of us have learned some very serious life skills of being individuals,\r\nand there's some unlearning that we have to do to have a kind of sharing\r\nand generosity and connectedness with ourselves and the natural environment.-Group\r\nof young women from the Bay Area:<\/b>\r\n
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We are trained to believe in the individual 'I', meaning myself, and\r\n'if I have my food and my car and my house I don't have to worry about\r\nthe peel in Mexico because they're not me'. Other paradigms would define\r\n'I' as 'my community' and that community extended to the biotic community\r\nof the world. I'm concerned about the workers in Mexico because they are\r\nreally not that separate from me. If they're being pushed off their land,\r\nif they're being commodified and having their knowledge taken and patented\r\nby the corporations, well, that's mine too. I'm a part of that.-Group\r\nof young women from the Bay Area:<\/b>\r\n
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I just informed myself about a week ago. There was not a lot of information\r\nout. I went to the Starlight yesterday and that informed me a lot. They\r\nhad booths set up. I picked up information and gave it to my friends and\r\npassed it all out.-Nineteen-year-old woman from San Diego dressed as\r\nan ear of corn<\/b>\r\n
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