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Does ‘biopiracy’ endanger world food supplies? Seed monopolies could affect the livelihoods of farmers and biodiversity.

January 26, 2012
Does ‘biopiracy’ endanger world food supplies?  Seed monopolies could affect the livelihoods of farmers and biodiversity.

      Does ‘biopiracy‘ endanger world food supplies? Seed monopolies could affect the livelihoods of farmers and biodiversity. Here s a link to this article and videos associated with it. http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/does-biopiracy-endanger-world-food-supplies-0021995 There is a video featuring Vandana Shiva. For those of you who are familiar with her work and opinions this is another opportunity to look at [...]

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“Deadly Monopolies”: Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over Life Itself

December 8, 2011
“Deadly Monopolies”: Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over Life Itself

    One of the major themes raised by the Occupy movement is the increasing power of large corporations over more and more aspects of our lives. We spend the hour looking into the issue of the corporate control of life itself. Our guest, Harriet Washington, is a medical ethicist and has just published a [...]

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