Bio-Piracy Series Pt. 1 Click on links and pics below for Streaming Video

Bio-Piracy Series Part 1 of 2

first broadcast on
Friday January 28
on Rogers Television
working TV # 166, RT: 27:30 each

A two part series on Bio-Piracy with information on its two central components:
1. Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs) - which most of us have heard about in terms of Genetically Engineered (GE) food, also called "Frankenfood".
2.Patenting of Life Forms is the most insidious aspect of Bio-Piracy. Currently multi-national corporations including Monsanto and Dow Chemical are patenting life forms all over the earth, including plants like Basamati rice which people have grown and eaten for thousands of years.

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Part 1 of our series (# 166) beginning
January 28 2000, on Rogers TV includes:

	INTRODUCTION: click here or on pic for streaming video. by regular working TV host Paul Gill.

VIDEO: click here or on pic
(below right) for streaming video.
Rolling the Snowball . . . building active resistance to genetically modified crops
by Ben Edwards of I-Contact Video in England.
VHS copies available (in NTSC for North American viewers) from [email protected] c/o The Edmonds Institute

This video documents the first genetiX snowball action in 1998 when five women pulled up genetically modified (GM) crops at a Monsanto test field site in Oxfordshire England.

FORUM:click here or on pic
(below left) for streaming video.
Highlights from the October 6 1999 SPEC (Society for Prevention of Environmental Conservation) Forum on "Bio-Piracy"at the Vancouver Public Library, part of the "Environment Now" lecture series, featuring Nandidta Sharma.

Nandita Sharma from the Basamati Action Group, speaking on Bio-Piracy at the Vancouver Public Library.

EXTRO:click here or on pic for streaming video.