Re: Fw: genetic food

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gismondi <mikeg@athabascau.ca>
To: Malinda Smith <malindas@athabascau.ca>
Cc: maryr@athabascau.ca <maryr@athabascau.ca>
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: genetic food


I would direct you all to Cornerhouse - a journal put online by AU
but published in the UK. It is an ICAAP Consortium member, and
there you will find a first rate paper on GM ..
http://www.icaap.org/Cornerhouse/briefings/10.html


In this area the Brits and mainland Europeans are miles ahead
of Canadians...

to see the list of other offerings by cornerhouse, many of whoich would
interest US and Brazilian students as well as our own...see the index...
http://www.icaap.org/Cornerhouse/briefings/

to see other free full text online environment journals published
on web by au/icaap
http://www.icaap.org/database/environmental_studies.shtml

or the icaap journals list for all disciplines
http://www.icaap.org/database/journals.html


and finally...
the AU Global Centres enviro area web pages are not up yet,
although they exist in rough...waiting for the return of the
repressed coordinator I guess

regards
mikeg@athabascau.ca


Hi Malinda,

Unfortunately, I do not have a bibliography of Canadian publications
on genetically modified foods.  As Mike said, Canada is just about
as far behind as the US on this issue.  Two websites I am aware of
are "Watching Monsanto," www.monsanto.vigil.net and the Canadian Greenpeace
site, www.greenpeacecanada.org, which has a piece
on a Canadian canola farmer who is being sued by Monsanto for stealing and
planting Roundup Ready canola.  He believes his fields are being
cross-pollinated, and is counter-suing.

maryr@athabascau.ca

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joćo Paulo Dias <jpdias@sonata.fe.uc.pt>
>> To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
>> Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 8:33 AM
>> Subject: genetic food
>>
>> Hi

Dr. Mark Neupert is requesting information about this problem
in several countries. Can you help him.

Best regards
Joćo Paulo Dias


Hello All,


Along with the usual smattering of intro to anthro/arch courses, I teach a
class called Technology, Society and Values.  This week in class, we've been
going over biotechnology and the genetic engineering of food.  I was blown
away by the fact that none of my 60 or so students knew what the "terminator
gene" or sterile seed technology was.  In fact, they had no clue that most
of the food in the supermarket contains genetically modified ingredients.
Fortunately, we've also gone over the corporate control of the media, and
thus have some explanation for their ignorance (Boas meets Chomsky in my
approach to technology assessment).   Here in America, coverage is meager.

The changes in last couple of months of the political/economic landscape of
GM foods has been astounding.  Six days ago, 49 U.S. representative wrote
the head of the FDA demanding mandatory labeling.  ADM has requested
American farmers to separate GM crops from traditional ones.  This is not a
result of American activism, but pressure from foreign governments and
activists.  I find it a very interesting case study on the global economy.
Societies other than the U.S. (the host) are influencing the evolution of
biotechnology. I have the impression that non-U.S. societies (EU, Australia,
New Zealand, Japan, and many of the developing nations) see the issue as
more than public health, but also a problem of American corporate hegemony
and the general arrogance of corporations within the global economy - an
issue never raised  by the American media. So, list-members of the world,
could you tell me what is going on in your society?  What's the tone of the
debate in Mexico, the Netherlands, Kenya,  Iowa?    What else is going on
that we Americans don't hear about?
Cheers,

Dr. Mark Neupert
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Oregon Institute of Technology
Klamath Falls, OR. 97603
(541)885-1394 (office)
(541)885-1520 (fax)
email:neupertm@oit.edu


Joćo Paulo Dias

Centro de Estudos Sociais
Colégio de S. Jerónimo
Apartado 3087
3001-401 Coimbra
Portugal
Tel. directo: 00-351-239-855585
Fax: 00-351-239-855589