THE BRAVE NEW frontier of genetic engineering is extending humanity's reach over the forces of nature as no other technology has ever done. Scientists can now isolate, snip, insert, recombine, rearrange, edit, programme, and produce biological and genetic material. In fact, scientists for the first time have the potential to become the architects of life itself, the authors of a technological evolution designed to create new species of microbe, plant and animal that are more profitable for agriculture, industry, biomass energy production, and research than the ones nature gave us.
This biotechnology boom in the industrialized world has massively increased corporate demand for an unconventional form of natural resources: not the minerals and fossil fuels of the industrial age, but rather living materials found primarily in the Southern Hemisphere.
Andrew Kimbrell
"The way we steal genetic materials from theThird World is nothing but modern-day biopiracy."
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