The Life Industry
Biodiversity, people and profits
There are many contentious issues surrounding biodiversity and different priorities for the many stakeholders involved. This book presents some of the arguments from the leading experts on the issues as well as reflecting the collective learning and debate from grassroots NGOs, journalists, industrialists and policy makers.
Published: 1996
Pages: 216
eBook: 9781780446165
Paperback: 9781853393419
| Preface vii | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Introduction (Janet Bell and Michel Pimberi) 1 | |||
| Part 1 The Tools of Control | |||
| 2. Science, markets and power 25 | |||
| 2.1 Changes in the genetic supply industry (Jack Kloppenburg) 25 | |||
| 2.2 Genetic engineering and biotechnology in industry | |||
| (Janet Belt) 31 | |||
| 2.3 Biodiversity Newspeak (Christine von Weiszacker) 53 | |||
| 3. The power and the glory 69 | |||
| 3.1 The gene - that obscure object of desire (Regine Kollek) 69 | |||
| 3.2 Patenting life - trends in the US and Europe | |||
| (Christine Noiville) 76 | |||
| 3.3 The changing face of patents 86 | |||
| Part 2 The Practice — Bioprospecting or Biopiracy? | |||
| 4. Green gold 95 | |||
| 4.1 Equity issues in bioprospecting | |||
| (Charles Zerner and Kelly Kennedy) 96 | |||
| 4.2 The Body Shop model of bioprospecting (Mark Johnston) 110 | |||
| 4.3 Indigenous peoples' responses to bioprospecting | |||
| (Marcus Colchester) 114 | |||
| 4.4 The losers' perspective (Vandana Shiva) 119 | |||
| 5- Human genes - the new resource 137 | |||
| 5.1 The Human Genome Diversity Project 137 | |||
| 5.2 Indigenous peoples' reactions to the HGDP | |||
| ( Victoria Corpus and Alejandro Argumedd) 145 | |||
| 5.3 Glorification of the genes - genetic determinism and | |||
| racism in science (Alan Goodman) 149 | |||
| Part 3 Which way now? | |||
| 6.1 Choices 163 | |||
| 6.2 Reversals for diversity - a new paradigm | |||
| (Robert Chambers) 173 | |||
| 6.3 Seeds of hope- 185 | |||
| A vote for conscience over capital 185 | |||
| Europe's moratorium on BGH 187 | |||
| A gene bank working with farmers 189 | |||
| The MASIPAG experience 190 | |||
| The butterfly rises (Pat Mooney) 192 | |||
| Appendices | |||
| About the authors 195 | |||
| Acronyms 197 | |||
| Glossary 199 | |||
| Organizations 205 |
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