> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:35:04 +0200
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> Asunto: [genet-forum] The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure
> of Science - Part 1&2
> Fecha: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:55:17 +0200
> De: GENET-forum <forum@genet-info.org>
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> <<http://ijsaf.org/contents/16-1/lotter1/index.html>>
> International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
> Vol.16(1) (2009) Abstract
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> The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science - Part 1: The
> Development of a Flawed Enterprise
>
> Don Lotter
> A major conflict is developing in science over transgenic foods. Food,
> feed, and fiber products derived from transgenic agricultural crops are
> presented here as a different case from industrial and pharmaceutical
> crop transgenics and should be parsed from the larger transgenics
> industry for comprehensive re-evaluation and market roll-back. Reviewed
> is the development of the crop transgenics industry; the early influence
> of the biotechnology industry over the US federal regulatory agencies in
> the context of the development of minimal regulation; the basic
> technology of plant transgenics; the main transgenic crops, traits, and
> producing countries; consumer resistance to transgenic foods; industry
> problems with shrinking investments; the worldwide promotion of
> transgenic crops; and ecological issues of transgenic crops. Flaws in
> the one gene-one protein model, the foundation of transgenics, are
> reviewed in the context of the recent and ongoing restructuring of the
> science of genetics. Research on the mutational consequences of plant
> transgenics and its phenotypic ramifications such as allergens and novel
> proteins is discussed. Major research findings and 'red flag' incidents
> in the history of transgenic foods and feeds are reviewed that reflect
> the flaws in the genetic foundations of transgenics.
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> **********
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> The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science - Part 2:
> Academic Capitalism and the Loss of Scientific Integrity
> <http://ijsaf.org/contents/16-1/lotter2/index.html>
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> Don Lotter
> Factors in the failure of the scientific community to properly oversee
> agricultural transgenics are presented. The large-scale restructuring of
> university science programs in the past 25 years from a model based on
> non-proprietary science for the 'public good' to the 'academic
> capitalism' model based on the 'knowledge economy' is discussed in the
> context of the failure of the science community to oversee the
> transition of transgenic crop technology from the research stage to
> commercialization. Discussed are increasing science community and
> university dependence on private industry funding and on development of
> proprietary technologies; monopolization of the make-up of expert
> scientific bodies on transgenics by pro-industry scientists with vested
> interests in transgenics; deficient scientific protocols, bias, and
> possible fraud in industry-sponsored and industry-conducted research;
> increasing politically and commercially driven manipulation of science
> within federal regulatory bodies such as the FDA; and bias in the peer-
> review process, tolerance by the scientific community of biotechnology
> industry manipulation of the information environment, and of biased
> treatment and harassment of non-compliant scientists. Discussed are
> future food production strategies for developing countries, recently
> framed in the 2008 UNsponsored International Assessment of Agricultural
> Knowledge, Science, and Technology, an action plan that emphasizes non-
> proprietary, agroecology-based approaches to food production and does
> not include crop transgenics as a central strategy. The under-funding of
> non-proprietary agroecological approaches to food production is discussed.
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> see also: <http://www.donlotter.net/>
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