This article originally appeared in Z Magazine, June 2001.

Later this month, thousands of people will converge on San Diego, California for what may be the largest protest against the biotechnology industry in the United States. Coinciding once again with the annual convention of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), this year’s Biodevastation [...]

This article orignially appeared in Synthesis/Regeneration 25, Summer 2001.

With the worldwide rejection of genetically engineered foods, the biotechnology industry is scrambling to develop a new generation of products that can might someday be seen as advantageous for consumers and beneficial to humanity. This is the primary motivation, of course, behind the massive PR [...]

This article is the introduction to the book Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering (Zed Books), edited by Brian Tokar.

Perhaps once in a decade, a compelling new social or environmental concern will come to the forefront of public debate in the West, raising profound consequences for [...]

From: Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering, edited by Brian Tokar (London: Zed Books, February 2001).

For more than a quarter century — since the first successful attempts at splicing and recombining DNA in the laboratory — people knowledgeable about genetics, ecology, agricultural science and numerous related subjects have voiced concerns [...]

Over the past year, news of the hazards of genetically engineered foods has finally broken into the U.S. mainstream media. The contamination of taco shells and other products with a variety of engineered corn not approved for human consumption, the gathering of 4000 people last March to demonstrate against the biotechnology industry convention in Boston [...]

This article originally appeared in Synthesis/Regeneration 21, Winter 2000.

Genetically engineered crops threaten monarch butterflies. The headlines spread worldwide this past May, after three researchers at Cornell University published a study confirming what critics of biotechnology have been saying for a decade: that the environmental consequences of genetic engineering would prove to be widespread [...]

This article originally apeared in Earth First! Journal, Spring 1999.

It used to be possible for some activists to dismiss genetic engineering and other biotechnologies as ideas recently emerged from science fiction, as problems that could safely be put on the back burner. Compared to the rapid loss of species and habitat, global climate [...]

This article originally appeared in Z Magazine, January 1999.

One important feature of the actions in Seattle and Washington, DC was many activists’ focus on a serious new threat to our food and health: The rise of genetic engineering as the technology-of-choice in countless new areas of corporate activity; the imposition of new [...]

As originally published in Toward Freedom, Winter 1998/99

Recent opposition to biotechnology and genetic engineering has focused on these technologies’ implications for food and agriculture. This is entirely necessary, as tens of millions of acres of U.S. farm land are being planted with genetically engineered crops that have serious consequences for our health, and [...]