33 Synthesis/Regeneration Winter 2004

AGRICULTURE UNDER SIEGE

S'Ra DeSantis explains that there will be no possibility of regulating GMOs if they pollute global production of grain.

Brian Tokar believes the company has political connections far beyond its financial standing.

Michael Dorsey examines recidivist corporate criminals.

Vandana Shiva & Afsar Jafri document that Bt cotton does not lead to higher yields or increased farmer income.

Mae-Wan Ho understands that genetic determinism helps condone and justify racism.

Carlos Marentes sees the poisoning of farm workers by chemicals.

Lilian Joensen & Mae-Wan Ho note that developing land for RR soya plantations has led to deforestation.

Joe Cummins tells how transgenic crops and GM biopesticides attack microflora and microfauna.

Michael Greger says that potentially risky tissues are still fed to people, pigs and poultry.

The Environmental Working Group shows that perchlorate leaks from military sites to contaminate 500 US drinking water sources.

Amory Starr heard the supposed beneficiaries of free trade saying it devastates farmers around the world.

Andrew Kennis points out that the US and EU were not willing to cut their enormous agricultural subsidies.

Tewolde Egziabher worries that GMOs developed in the South will be controlled by foreign patent owners.

Henry Robertson reviews Joan Roelofs' Foundations and Public Policy.

Bill Weinberg describes the use of violence to deliver national resources to foreign capital.

Pete Dolack thinks that two parties pretend to be different while representing the same folks at the top.

Steve Martinot claims that a minor party would have to become a major party to make itself possible as a minor party.

Jose Tirado insists that we cannot get the system we want by voting for those who do not want our system.

Which is the greater evil and which is the lesser is unclear to Marc Estrin.

GPUS organizers are entering a period of political opposition.

Letters from Preston Enright, Uncle Don Fanning, Melissa Belvadi, & Mitchel Cohen.

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