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Brian Tokar 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 …
Continue reading “Harbinger Vol. 2 No. 1 — Radicalizing the Debate”
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 …
Continue reading “Butterfly Experiment Highlights Biotech Hazards”
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 …
Continue reading “Stop the Biotech Assault on Earth and Humanity!”
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 …
Continue reading “Gathering RAGE: Resistance Against Genetic Engineering”
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 …
Brian Tokar and Gary Oliver The Green Mountains of Vermont evoke an image of rolling hills as far as the eye can see, snow-covered mountain peaks and sparkling clear rivers, …
Continue reading “The Texas-Vermont-Maine Nuclear Dump: Bringing Environmental Racism Home”
This article orignially appeard in The Ecologist, September/October 1998 and translated and reprinted in Courrier International (France), Global Økologi (Denmark) and other international publications. Monsanto’s high-profile advertisements in Britain and …
The Clinton Administration is counting on the “free market” to forestall global climate change without challenging the energy industry. Originally published in Z Magazine, December 1997. This December, heads of …
This article originally apeared in Toward Freedom, May 1997. Environmental awareness in the industrialized world is still often seen as a product of affluence and economic security. Despite the very …
Continue reading “Third World Ecologists Challenge Development, “Progress””
This article originally appeared in Food & Water Journal, Spring 1997 This past winter, a group of scientists in Edinburgh, Scotland accomplished a feat that has long been speculated about …