LEADER 04781nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910973119803321 005 20240417021522.0 010 $a9786611725280 010 $a9781849644938 010 $a1849644934 010 $a9781281725288 010 $a1281725285 010 $a9781435660687 010 $a1435660684 035 $a(CKB)1000000000533546 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH22933781 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000112457 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11142595 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000112457 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10087275 035 $a(PQKB)10573951 035 $a(Perlego)664996 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3386339 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000533546 100 $a20120618d2005 my 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBiotechnology $eCorporate Power Versus the Public Interest /$fby Steven P. McGiffen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aS.l. $cPluto Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780745319742 311 08$a0745319742 311 08$a9780745319759 311 08$a0745319750 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Introduction -- The European Union -- THE BARCELONA DECLARATION -- WHAT THE EU CAN AND CANNOT DO -- THE STRANGE CASE OF EUROPE'S UNWANTED GMOs -- FIRST STEPS IN REGULATING GMOs -- FROM FIELD TO FORK: THE NEW LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR GMOs -- SEEDS -- CO-EXISTENCE -- LIABILITY -- ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION -- THE SIXTH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME -- PATENT LAW -- The United States -- BOVINE SOMATROPIN -- THE CORPORATE AGENDA -- REGULATION -- REGULATION AND PUBLIC OPINION -- PHARMING -- PATENTS -- REPRODUCTIVE AND THERAPEUTIC CLONING -- BIOETHICISTS -- REGULATORY CAPTURE -- Other Developed Countries -- CANADA -- AUSTRALIA -- NEW ZEALAND -- SWITZERLAND -- JAPAN -- THE NEWLY INDUSTRIALISED COUNTRIES -- Developing Countries -- COULD BIOTECH PUT AN END TO HUNGER? -- THE (ATTEMPTED) RAPE OF AFRICA -- INDIA -- ARGENTINA -- BRAZIL -- ISNAR AND OTHERS: THE CARROT TO BUSH'S STICK -- THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION: PRO-BIOTECH PROPAGANDA -- OTHER ADVOCATES OF BIOTECH AS A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPMENT -- THIRD WORLD SCEPTICS -- THE REAL SOLUTION LIES ELSEWHERE -- International Treaties and Agreements -- THE (CARTAGENA) BIOSAFETY PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY -- OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS TOUCHING ON TRADE IN GMOs -- PROPOSED UNITED NATIONS BAN ON HUMAN CLONING -- UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON THE HUMAN GENOME AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- ATTEMPTS TO CURB BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS -- Conclusion -- GMOs: IRREVERSIBLE CONTAMINATION OF THE WORLD'S FOOD SUPPLY -- MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE -- THE BOTTOM LINE -- Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index. 330 $bFrankenfoods, designer babies, Dolly the Sheep and Raelian fantasists: few subjects generate as much controversy and misinformation as biotechnology. This book takes the reader behind the headlines to examine the new laws on genetic-based technologies, who's making them, and why. Steven P. McGiffen offers a lucid analysis of the real implications of biotechnology legislation in the US and the EU, and contrasts it with approaches to agricultural and medical biotech in the rest of the world. He argues that the EU and America are removing decision-making power from the people and their elected representatives. Biotechnology regulation is a local manifestation of a global process of transferring power: from the people to corporations, from poor countries to rich ones, from the public to the private.He shows that biotechnology demands effective and democratic international decision-making procedures -- and that we are very far from achieving them. Ideal for the general reader, this is an indispensable guide for activists and anyone who wants to know more about how to control biotech regulation and how to resist handing control of our future to corporations. 606 $aBiotechnology$xGovernment policy 606 $aBiotechnology$xLaw and legislation 606 $aMechanical Engineering$2HILCC 606 $aEngineering & Applied Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aBioengineering$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 0$aBiotechnology$xGovernment policy. 615 0$aBiotechnology$xLaw and legislation. 615 7$aMechanical Engineering 615 7$aEngineering & Applied Sciences 615 7$aBioengineering 676 $a660.6 700 $aMcGiffen$b Steven P$01853772 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973119803321 996 $aBiotechnology$94450439 997 $aUNINA