Food Security:
Different Points of View

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Science Magazine

FOOD SECURITY: THE CHALLENGE OF FEEDING 9 BILLION PEOPLE

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5967/812.full

AN INTERVIEW WITH DR CHARLES BENBROOK ON GENETIC ENGINEERING

I met Dr. Charles Benbrook when he was chief scientist of the Organic Center.

http://media.bioneers.org/listing/an-interview-with-dr-charles-benbrook-on-genetic-engineering-arty-mangan/

TRESPASS: GENETIC ENGINEERING AS THE FINAL CONQUEST

Trespass: Genetic Engineering as the Final Conquest. I blogged on this early June 29, 2014.

This is a classy and classic article from Worldwatch by Claire Hope Cummins on the history of how Genetic Engineering came to be.

http://curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=2184312


AN ORIGINAL INTENT OF GENETIC ENGINEERING WAS TO GIVE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY CONTROL OVER NATURE AND SOCIETY

According to Lily Kay, an assistant professor of the history of science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, genetic engineering came about as the result of the concerted effort of a few scientists, who, along with their academic and philanthropic sponsors, had a shared vision about how they could use genetics to reshape science and society. In her book The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology, Kay writes that this vision was not so much about underlying biological principles as it was about social values. The new biology that evolved from this thinking was founded on a strong belief in "industrial capitalism" and its perceived mandate for "science-based social intervention." The potential for this idea, and the intentional strategy to use it for social purposes was clearly understood from the outset, says Kay. The developers of "molecular biology" (a term coined by the Rockefeller Foundation) were confident that it would offer them a previously unimagined power and control over both nature and society.

 

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