Jul 18
20190
ArborGen Artificial Intelligence (AI) Bioeconomy Biotechnology Business for Nature CRISPR Crowther Labs Ecosystem Services ETH Zürich FuturaGene Genetically Engineered Trees International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) IPBES Landless Workers Movement Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) REDD The Global Tree Restoration Potential UN FAO
"This lack of concern about the larger implications and risks of GE trees by researchers has led to decades of global opposition, a fact which was discussed during a lengthy panel session on “Societal Acceptance of Forest Biotechnology.” The session was focused on ways to encourage the public to accept GE trees."
Jan 25
20160
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Ag-biotech Bayer Biotechnology Dow Ford Foundation GE Genetic Engineering GMO India Monsanto NGO brigade of India Syngenta
"It’s the same old colonial strategy. But the political class and the NGO brigade of India has been genetically modified to remain silent on vital issues."
Oct 24
20131
Conservation International, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, USAID, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Aceh (Indonesia) American Forest and Paper Association AMISCONDE biocolonialism Biodiversity bioprospecting Biotechnology Bolivia BP Brazil CAPISE Cemex Chiapas Chimane Chiquita Citigroup Coca-Cola Colombia Congo Basin Forest partnership Conservation International Energy and Biodiversity Initiative (EBI) Exxon Mobil Foundation Fauna & Flora International Ford GAP Green Imperialism Guyana International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) International Paper J P Morgan Chase and Co. Keystone Foods Madagascar McDonalds Mesoamerican Biological Corridor project Mesoamerican Coral Corridor monoculture Monsanto Moxeno multinational conservation Neocolonialism Nestlé Novartis Palawan (Philippines) Papua New Guinea Peru Rio Tinto Selva Lacandona Shell Smithsonian Institution Sony South Africa Starbucks Statoil Surinam The Nature Conservancy The World Conservation Union (IUCN) United Airlines USAID Wai Wai Walt Disney Wapishana West Papua World Bank World Wide Fund for Nature Zapatistas
"The terms “greenwash” and “corporate front group” seem inadequate to describe Conservation International. Perhaps, as the Papua New Guinean critique puts it, Conservation International is “no more and no less a ‘non government' organisation than is General Electric or Microsoft.” Perhaps it is time to consider a global campaign to expose this ‘green' giant's true colours and put a stop to its operations."
Nov 22
20120
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
ALF | Animal Liberation Front Biotechnology Capitalism Corporate Media Culture Ecological Crisis neoliberalism Pacifism Pacifism as Pathology Resistance Speciesism
Dr/Prof. Steve Best is a writer, speaker, public intellectual, and activist. Steven Best engages animal rights, species extinction, ecological crisis, biotechnology, liberation politics, terrorism, mass media and culture, globalization, and capitalist domination. He is Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso."The Paralysis of Pacifism: In Defense of Militant Direct Action and "Violence" for Animal Liberation" lecture by Prof. Steve Best was delivered in an ex slaughterhouse of Aprilia - Italy - 06 September 2012.