We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Phantoms in the machine: GM corn spreads to Mexico

from The Age (Australia). This is an edited extract from the recently published book entitled, The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Politics and Power, by Marie-Monique Robin. 

I found this excerpt to be most fascinating in its details about the apparent political impact that biotechnology industry has had on scientific research, academia, and science publications in addition to the spread of trans-genes to other varieties of corn and their unusual effects.
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