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>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:05:40 -0400 (EDT) >From: Faith Wilding <fwild+@andrew.cmu.edu> >Subject: DNA bombs > >scott: >>> And of course all agricultural crops and animals >> > >are 'GM' by virtue of selective breeding anyway. > >this is not correct really. Bioengineered genetic modification is quite >different than selective breeding. For one thing it is much quicker. For >another, you can recombine DNA from different species in a way you can't >with hybridization and selective breeding. > >Yesterday I had lunch at a new biotech venture firm which prides itself >on not being venture capitalist but rather a venture catalyst--"where >life and computing converge." They are making it possible for professors >from universities which retain the rights to their faculties' research >results to team up with entrepreneurs, doctors, and independent >laboratories, in order to bring their inventions to market. Their main >thrust is of course the altruistic one of "human healing." Their main thrust is of course the advancement of their careers subsidized by public funds stolen from the `rogue nations` supposedly terrorizing the thieves. >We have seen who are "We" +? >with "experts" or the "authorities." >Let's keep the pressure up on >theorizing and building critical practices around the biogenetic >disturbance. Then trampling down some GM corn will soon seem like small >(Monsanto) potatoes. nettime and your body operate on the same principles as Monsanto. >Faith Wilding your parents assigned name. cmu.edu - korporat fascist amalgam subsidized by public funds stolen from the `rogue nations` supposedly terrorizing the thieves +? >Let's keep the pressure up on let's keep the pressure on your personal neurons - perhaps actually advance this specie. prev on nettime - [isnt memocide lovely] >So my next question specific to this topic, is to ask; if all GM is not >bad, gm isnt bad. gm is inefficient. research indicates organic farming is most efficient. would you like to purchase gm air +? nature is gratis. art isnt. art = gm = kapitalism \ korporat fascism i.e. artist = korporat fascist. amicalement.nn /_/ / \ \/ i should like to be a human plant \/ __ __/ i will shed leaves in the shade \_\ because i like stepping on bugs *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Netochka Nezvanova nezvanova@eusocial.com http://www.eusocial.com http://www.biohakc.com http://www.ggttctttat.com/! I am not Greta Garbo!!! http://steim.nl/leaves/petalz *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- --*--*--*--*--*--*-- _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold