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[The Futurist] The Futurist: The Culture of Success: India, unlike China, does not have the equivalent of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore where the wheelbarrow effect could begin 20 years prior due to Chinese seeing other Chinese attaining wealth, so India had to wait for the Indian community in the US (and to a lesser degree in the UK) to achieve critical mass and visible wheelbarrow maturity. This did not happen until the 2000s, and so the Double Wheelbarrow Effect could not benefit India until recently. 

[HealthZone.ca - News & Features] Genetically engineered meal close to your table - Healthzone.ca: Right now, governments don't consider any of the ethical, social and religious issues with genetically engineered animals, says Sarah Hartley, an adjunct professor of political science at Simon Fraser University who is co-editing a book on perceptions of animal biotechnology. Many people, she says, are concerned about animal welfare, the intensification of industrial agriculture and general reach of biotechnology into their home and onto their dinner plate.

[The Bubba Effect] Frankenfood and YOU. « The Bubba Effect: A coalition of family farming groups in the US have declared their opposition to GM crops and corporate ownership of life-forms through patenting. They are demanding a moratorium on all corporate mergers and acquisitions, a moratorium on farm closures, and an end to policies that serve big agribusiness interests at the expense of family farmers, taxpayers and the environment [9].

[U of S Research News] University of Saskatchewan Research - Discovery @ U of S: June 06 ...: More than 900,000 researchers, scholars, and students in eight provinces and 67 universities, including the U of S, will gain desktop access to an extensive body of national and international material to a joint $47-million investment announced June 3rd by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

[BBSRC - Funding opportunities, news and media releases] BBSRC - Scientific breakthroughs and applications: Plant scientists in the UK have made a major contribution to advances in the understanding of genes that control flowering, plant development, and resistance to pests and diseases, as well as in the development of DNA-based technologies to accelerate the introduction of beneficial traits into crops. Examples include the pioneering of 'antisense' technology to study and manipulate plant gene function (University of Nottingham) and elucidation of the genetic regulation of flowering time, flower shape, pigmentation and location (John Innes Centre, University of Edinburgh).

[The Institute of Science in Society] Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe: The briefing, organized by ISIS, Third World Network and Green Network, and hosted by Janusz Wojciechowski, MEP, the vice-Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development for the European Union, coincided with the publication of key scientific papers, GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham (ISIS scientific publication) [1] and New Analysis of a Rat Feeding Study with a Genetically Modified Maize Reveals Signs of Hepatorenal Toxicity (CRII-GEN) [2] on how national and international regulators have been ignoring damning evidence against the safety of GM food and feed while colluding with industry to manipulate scientific research to promote GM crops. The papers were presented at the briefing together with a comprehensive dossier containing more than 160 fully referenced articles from the Science in Society archives documenting the serious hazards ignored, the scientific fraud, the regulatory sham and violation of farmers' rights [3] ( GM Science: Hazards Ignored, Fraud, Regulatory Sham, and Violation of Farmers' Rights , ISIS CD Book, 2007).

[The Bioscience Resource Project News] Does the Knowledge-based Bio-economy add up? : The Bioscience ...: Furthermore, although EU and other biotechnology risk assessments have received considerable criticism (8), BIO4EU effectively takes their satisfactory nature for granted. This is puzzling since even regulators themselves acknowledge that there are defects and loopholes in risk assessment, including difficulties in certifying whole foods (as opposed to individual chemicals) as safe for human consumption, weaknesses in regulatory procedures in terms of assessment of long term effects and the difficulty of taking into account unanticipated consequences (9).

[Kiwiblog] The Greens banned list | Kiwiblog: If you look at the literature from the anti-GE movement one of the things you’ll evetnutally notice is that everybody has their own definition of what constitutes genetic engineering and they don’t always agrre with each other. Some of them are using definitions so narrow that only certain types of GE would be banned and others are using definitions so broad that it would catch crops currently being grown by the organic food cult.

[BBC Blogs Network] BBC - Peston's Picks: Authentic Polish Haggis: I often wonder whether much of our current obsession with safety of the individual actually results in greater risk to the cohort. It's much akin to the BSE saga where the biggest healthcare burden generated was not a BSE-riddled population but depression and suicide in the farming community.

[Pharmalot] Was Swine Flu A False Pandemic? // Pharmalot: Protein Sciences of Meriden, Conn., has applied to the FDA for approval to sell a vaccine made by genetically engineering flu genes into a worm virus, which then infects cells from caterpillar ovaries to produce the necessary proteins to make vaccine. VaxInnate of Cranbury, N.J., for example, produced an experimental H1N1 vaccine using genetically engineered E.coli bacteria, and Vical of San Diego just won a $1.25 million contract from the Navy to develop an H1N1 vaccine that involves injecting DNA sequences from the virus directly into people.

[Ethical Man blog] BBC - Ethical Man blog: Think before you carve: Educating people to the benefits of making socially conscious decisions is surely far more appropriate than the sort of venomous rubbish that people like you have to offer. Incidentally I have 2 children, we only eat meat twice a week (free range and locally produced) and as a family we do everything we can to lessen our impact on the environment.

[Change.org's Animal Rights Blog] Your Dog versus Your Dinner | Animals | Change.org: Existing on the periphery where a mother pig is given a larger cage in which to exist while our companion animals are treated better than children doesn't get to the core of the problem, it merely justifies it: "Look," they say in response to us, "we have changed X and Y and therefore we are now acting ethically." That is a recipe for continuation (however, the baby boy cows (i.e., "veal") get to live in a smaller confined space), not substantive change.  

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Alzheimer's and Herpes: If nearly everyone breaks a law, and it becomes socially accepted to do so, as in Prohibition, then of course it is a bad law. Some people will always break any law, but this is mitigated in the case of drug regulation by the fact that those people a) know where to look, b) have explored legal avenues, c) have sufficient reason to believe that the illegal experimental remedy is significantly better than those legal avenues, all of which make them more likely to know what they are doing and less likely to be harmed.

[Deltaflt1189's Blog] **EXPOSED! - The Mark Of The Beast!** « Deltaflt1189's Blog: After making a $10,000 to $20,000 investment on one of these animals, it doesn’t make economic sense to put them into the food supply, Faber said. “The farmers and producers who use this technology are mainly interested in capturing genetic value to produce higher quality animals,”

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Third Annual Movie-Plot Threat Contest: Increasingly common, especially in the United States, genetically modified foods are being grown for their "added nutrients", "extra strength", and durability for packaging. All these genetic modifications however are mixing in with the human gene pool.

[POLITICO Top Stories] Ben Smith's Blog: Obama allies attack GOP leadership - POLITICO.com: Hovering above it all, the unqualified, pompous airhead - Obama - lords it over the 'little people' while he continues to hammer the stock market with doom and gloom predictions.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » So not a 'bonfire of the ...: proposed NHS Board is not directed by ministers (ministers set its budget and its overall objectives, which are basically “improve health”, but the Board is responsible for setting the internal NHS policies to spend the budget and achieve the objectives), and ministers are not accountable for its performance - the Board is directly accountable to parliament, unlike civil servants who are accountable through ministers. Indeed, the rationale for creating the NHS Board is precisely to remove “ministerial meddling”

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Announcing: Movie-Plot Threat Contest: blows them to "bits" - this of course occurs in the dead of winter - the entire United States falls into anarchy - lawlessness abounds - people return to their native instincts and employ "survival of the fittest mentality" - many small violent "armies" evolve looking to conquer the other - without the US as "the world's guardian" violence becomes the order of the day for many countries - no one can be trusted - kill or be killed -World War 4 breaks out - what makes this war special is that all sides battle each other - everyone is everyone elses enemy - finally, as battle after battle rages on, the earth becomes a wasteland - and civilization starts with a new world order...

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