Category: The ‘Biodev’ archive (1998 – 2007)

These pages display the contents of a website formerly housed at biodev.org (no longer an active domain), documenting a series of events initiated and organized by the ISE (with many local allies) under a variety of names, including Biodevastation, Biojustice and Biodemocracy. They occurred between 2000 and 2007, and were preceded by 3 events in 1998-’99 that we also helped with. Most were planned to coincide with the annual conventions of the Biotechnology Industry Organization – the main biotech lobby in the US – and other major corporate events. For full articles, just click on each headline.

Spring 2003: From Biodevastation to Biojustice

Announcing the 2003 Biodevastation/Biojustice events including Biodevastation 7 in St. Louis, the Caravan Acrosss the Cornbelt, response to the Washington, DC BIO convention, and the Sacramento Mobilization around the USDA’s agriculture ministerial. Details here.

Come to St. Louis: Time to Abolish Monsanto!

“Monsanto is considered a takeover target… could be bought and sold off in pieces.” New York Times, January 14, 2003

Stay tuned to this site

… or contact Friends of the Earth in Washington, DC for the latest on responses to the 2003 BIO convention. Press events and congressional briefings occurred during the lead-up to BIO 2003, featuring speakers from Africa and around the world. George W. Bush was the featured speaker at BIO 2003, and his speech was broadcast live to the delegates assembled at the USDA agricultural technology ministerial in Sacramento.

St. Louis Information

The May 2003 Biodevastation Gathering will be the cutting edge event defining links between environmental racism and the biotechnology industry.

Bike Caravan from St. Louis

We are a group of concerned bicyclists, puppeteers, musicians, farmhands, clowns, cheerleaders, activists, eaters of food and drinkers of water. We are united in a quest to seek out food (thats our fuel) that is not tampered with by biotechnology corporations. We ride for diversity, organic farming, and biojustice everywhere!

Countering Biotech and “Free Trade” in Sacramento

By Brian Tokar and Doyle Canning, Institute for Social Ecology Biotechnology Project For Z Magazine, September, 2003 Last winter, US Agriculture Secretary Anne Veneman announced plans for an international conference on agricultural technology just three months prior to the upcoming WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancun, Mexico. Veneman, a former board member of Calgene, an early […]

Biodevastation 2000 in the Press

Updated press links, courtesy of archive.org…

bioJustice/bioDiversity 2002 Program

bioJUSTICE/bioDIVERSITY 2002
6th International Grassroots
Gathering on Genetic Engineering
June 7-9, Toronto, Canada

Sponsors: Polaris Institute, Council of Canadians, BIOdevastation
Toronto Coalition, Institute for Social Ecology [USA]

Biodevastation to Biojustice: A brief history

bioJUSTICE/bioDIVERSITY 2002 was the sixth in a series of international grassroots gatherings on issues of genetic engineering, the patenting of life, and corporate dominance over our food and health. It was the fourth such gathering to coincide with the annual convention of BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

Agribusiness, Biotechnology and War

Most of the chemical “tools” taken for granted by modern agribusiness are products of warfare. What does it tell us about the new technologies of genetic manipulation that the very same companies posit as the centerpiece of the current generation of crop “improvement” technologies?