http://www.metafilter.com/tags/soylentgreen Posts tagged with 'soylentgreen' at MetaFilter. Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:52:04 -0800 Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:52:04 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/41214/No%2Ddead%2Dbabies%2Din%2Dmy%2Dbeer%2DOh%2Dmy In a surprise move, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/12/beer.genetic.ap/index.html">Anheuser-Busch</a> has gone up against some of the biotech firms that would like to grow genetically-modified (GM) rice containing <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/humanrice031505.cfm">human DNA</a>. The biotech firm that grows it says that their rice contains synthetic human genes which the company hopes to harvest and refine for use in medicines to fight diarrhea and dehydration.<br /><br /> Anheuser-Busch's concerns are not with the science of biotech, but rather the risk of crop-contamination, as has happened with farmers not only in the <a href="http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/service155.htm">U.</a><a href="http://www.rense.com/general31/crop.htm">S.</a> and <a href="http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/postings/gmo-on-trial.html">Canada</a>, but <a href="http://www.twnafrica.org/print.asp?twnID=374">all over the world</a>. The USDA has issued rice-tweakers <a href="http://www.ventria.com/aboutus/">Ventria Bioscience</a> and 300 other biopharmers permission to plant various augmented plants around the country since 1995, but Anheuser-Busch is the first large corporation to threaten a boycott - unusual, because <a href="http://www.afaa.com.au/pdf/5_Animal_feed.pdf">poultry and beef stock</a> (PDF) are <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1031182.stm">fed this kind of thing</a> <a href="http://www.food.gov.uk/gmfoods/gm-animal">every day</a>, and have been <a href="http://archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca/animalnet/2004/12-2004/animalnet_dec_10.htm">for the past 20 years</a>. I guess the Budweiser brewers just don't want to see '<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/">dead people</a>' in their suds...<br /><br /> On the flip-side of this occurrence, the response of the <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/01/17/activists_target_embryonic_stem_cell_research/">anti-stem cell</a> <a href="http://www.thelabrat.com/review/geron120399.shtml">activists</a> has been nothing short of sensory-deprivation. Shouldn't six-packs, cornfields and <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/bumpyroad020603.cfm">Porky</a> be given the same human rights as the unborn?<br /><br /> Also related: <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/contam_bb/contam_bb.mov">Contaminated: The New Science of Food</a> <small>(quicktime movie)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41214 Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:52:04 -0800 animal-feed anti-abortion biotech BraveNewWorld corn foods GM rice right-to-life soylentgreen vhsiv http://www.metafilter.com/29638/Its%2Dmade%2Douta%2DPEOPLEarrgghhhh <a href="http://www.soylent-green.com/">The Soylent Green Biscuit Factory</a> Are automation, robots, and computers taking human jobs and producing a new class of permanently superfluous ex-workers? (see <a href="http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm">Robot Nation</a><small><small> thanks spazzm</small></small>) Maybe the Soylent Green Biscuit Factory can help! <small><small>Robert Wenzlaff says - "I'm not just the president. I'm also a raw material." </small></small> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29638 Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:28:49 -0800 automation robotnation robots soylentgreen troutfishing