Pacific Ecologist 6 - Spring 2003
Contents
Editorials
Open transgenic experimentation IS bioterrorism - KAY WEIR
Defective genes - shifting the blame - EDWARD GOLDSMITH
Pacific News Highlights
The Case For A Ge-Free World
Hazards of GM crops & food - RONNIE CUMMINS
Beware Monsanto's Soybeans Safety Assessment Flawed
Allergenic Papaya Scandal - JOE CUMMINS
GE agriculture will not solve world hunger - ActionAid Report
Some Threats from GM - ROBERT MANN
Death by DNA Shuffling - MAE WAN HO
Pacific & Genetic Engineering
Australia at Risk - BOB PHELPS
NZ govt gives in to U.S. biotech pressure - CHRIS WHEELER
Horizontal Gene Transfer in the New Zealand environment - STEPHANIE WATSON
Features
Human genes in other organisms: broken tree of life - PETER WILLS
Anyone for Gene Therapy in your salad? - JOE CUMMINS
World News Highlights
New Eugenic Dangers
Genism, racism & the prospect of genetic genocide - GEORGE J. ANNAS
Will New Zealand be the Liberia of human modification? - DENYS TRUSSELL
GE And Third World
GE Crops Fail in India - VANDANA SHIVA & AFSAR JAFRI
Organic Agriculture
Sustainable Agriculture, best way to feed the world - LIM LI CHING
Can Agriculture & Biodiversity Coexist? - CATHERINE BADGLEY
Book Reviews
The Myths We Live By - by MARY MIDGLEY
Seeds of Deception - By JEFFREY M. SMITH
Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology - By KRISTIN DAWKINS
Tomorrow's Biodiversity - By VANDANA SHIVA
Biotech Time-Bomb by SCOTT EASTHAM
War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to
Living with the Fluid Genome - by MAE-WAN HO
From The Ground Up - Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
Made Not Born: The Troubling World of Biotechnology - Edited by CASEY WALKER
Create a Master Race - by EDWIN BLACK.
- By HELENA NORBERG-HODGE/PETER GOERING/JOHN PAGE
