requests the pleasure of the company of
EMAF------------------------------------
to celebrate (?) the ongoing union of
Biotechnologywith
Multinational Corporations----------
Saturday. 8th May 199914:00 at
Congress Media Minds ----
Another Chapter Another Chapter in the Story in the Story of Wild-eyed of Wild-eyed
Techno-utopianism Techno-utopianism and and
Stock-market Fueled Stock-market Fueled GreedGreed
Big Science ++
Big BusinessBig Business
Forever?
Biotechnology for the New Millennium
Food, Health and Empathy
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Exploring the Natural Connection
between FoodScience,
Healthy Profit
Some of the most Brilliant Scientific Mindsof our time have reviewed the material and agree…
We think of things Mother Nature never could!
• Help the Poor • Feed the World• Longer Shelf-life Vegetables
Agricultural Division
Feed the World!Help the Poor!
HOW DO THEY HELP THE POOR?
Our products help eliminate
the rodent problems in the world’s inner cities
Biochemist notes effects of transgenic potatoes on rats
•decreased brain size•weakened immune system•abnormal development of organs
Researcher fired for “misleading information”
21 scientists from 14 countries issue statement supporting his research and accusing the research institute of bowing to political pressure.
The Tomato:The New World Food
Object of Corporate Desire
No one likes an old rotting tomato!
Long Shelf Life Produce
Fresh Looking Vegetables
&Younger Looking Fruit!
Flavr Savr fruitappears
firm and ripe despite
internal degradation
Nutrition Division
• Improving Quality • Increasing World Food Supply
with •NutraSweet•Equal•Sweet Choice•Sweet Mate
TM
A global solution to inequality
•Create sympathy for Third World malnutrition
•Why should they be the only ones with vitamin deficiencies?
Olestra ™
•Drains away vitamins
•Washes away nutrients
•Produces stomach cramps
•Causes severe diarrhea
•Induces vomiting
•Causes spontaneous "accidents"
Time working Time wasted
Benefits of new technologies on work productivity
Reproductive Division
And New Products
Introducing our latest
breakthrough:Terminator Seeds!
Kill Two Birds with One Stone!
HOW DO WEKILL 2 BIRDS?
With inadequately
testedgeneticallymodified
food for people,and seed-
sterilization for crops!
•Blow to small & 3rd world farmers who become dependent on costly technology & big corporations•Many are forced out of business
Terminator Technology Crops engineered to kill seeds after
one time use
1998 US patent for seed sterilization
Victory for corporations
•Population control
•Avoid unwanted pregnancies
•New life to fertility industry
•Stimulate economy
The Benefits of Sterilization
A New Twist in Evolution
Speeding up evolution for better fit in economic markets
• Desirable attributes introduced more quickly than with conventional breeding
• Predictable results
Safe and Certain BreedingWhich would you choose?
?
• financial gain for family
According to Egg Donation, Inc.in Beverly Hills, California
Egg donors’ motivations include• opportunity to feel special• empathy for childless couples• importance of their children in their lives• belief that they have good looking and intellectually gifted children• pride in genetic background and family looks• opportunity to make unique contribution
• Abdominal distention and pain• Bleeding• Infection• Injury to bladder or abdominal organs • Infertility• Ovarian hyper-stimulation syndrome
• Enlargement or rupture of ovary • Fluid in abdomen• Blood in abdominal cavity• Blood clotting• Life threatening
Risks To Donor
Cost for new babyegg ……………………………....…..$6,500application fee …………......………….$75medical bills………………………...variabledoctors fees…………………….......variablemedications………………………....variablelab fees……………….………...…...variabletravel and per diem….……..……....variablehotel and meals…… ….………..….variablepossible hospitalization …...…..….variableEstimated total cost……………….$25,000Donor’s compensation ……...……...$2,000
1994, US consumer protection agency approves Bovine Growth Hormone to increase milk production in cowsdespite potential risks:
•Increases cases of udder infection (treated with antibiotics) which can lead to immunity to antibiotics in cows & humans•Potential cancer risk
Banned in Europeuntil December 1999
Risks of Liposuction• Rippled or sagging skin • Permanent pigmentation changes• Uneven contour or shape• Second procedure sometimes required• Severe trauma • Fluid accumulation • Injury to skin• Infection • Severe illness
Profit and future global expansion
Although there is resistance to genetically modified food in Europe & Britain...
...billion dollar PR campaigns and back room political “friend making” continue with the goal of entering ALL profitable markets
2.5 billion $$$$ sales in the 1st quarter of 1999
Information for our shareholdersHow we spend our money• 35% lobbying• 35% publicity• 1% product testing• 29% lawyers
RTMARK ANNOUNCES NEW GENETICS FUND!
CALL FOR:non-violent creative
intelligent acts of corporate
subversion