About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically modified ingredients and is not labeled. The biotechnology industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope for feeding the world and saving the environment. Family farmers are disappearing at an astonishing rate as people continue to go hungry both here and abroad. Toxic agricultural chemicals continue to poison our air, food and water and put farm workers in serious danger. What’s a person to do? Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage (from archive.org) and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, FED UP! presents an entertaining, informative and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it. FED UP! explores the unintentional effects of pesticides, the resistance of biotechnology companies to food labeling and the links between government officials and major biotechnology and chemical companies. FED UP! answers many questions regarding genetic engineering, the Green Revolution, genetic pollution and modern pesticides through interviews with Marc Lappé and Britt Bailey from the Center for Ethics and Toxics, Peter Rosset and Anuradha Mittal from Food First, Vandana Shiva from the Research Center for Science, Technology and Ecology, Ignacio Chapela from UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Martina …
Industrial Biotechnology Companies Excel In Pollution Prevention And Receive Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge …
Industrial biotechnology is increasing the efficiency of manufacturing chemicals and fuels, reducing emissions of pollutants, including greenhouse gases, and creating opportunities for economic growth and new products. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) congratulated the industrial biotechnology companies and members of BIO who received Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards …
Alan Shaw, President and CEO of Codexis, discusses how biotechnology is driving a new industrial revolution. Through biotech, companies like Codexis are helping us transition from a petroleum-based economy to a cleaner, greener, bio-based economy.
Webinars for Reporters: World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing Tuesday Plenary Programs to Focus …
—-Biotechnology Industry Organization : WHAT: The World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioprocessing Plenary Programsfor Tuesday, June 29, 2010, will be available via webinar to reporters andeditors.
Energy Asst. Sec. Cathy Zoi to Give Keynote Speech at BIO’s World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing
WASHINGTON—-Industrial biotechnology can make significant contributions to worldwide economic growth through innovative applications for sustainable biofuels and biobased products.
Product Description “Kenney’s work is the first major effort to provide a detailed analysis of the birth of the new industrial field of biotechnology and its impact on universities…Kenney’s book abounds in rich description and valuable conjectures. It also provides important insights into the structural and institutional aspects of the biotechnological revolution. It is informed by an extensive literature including reports from the financial community, university-industry contracts, trade journals, personal interviews, and company prospectuses.”-Sheldon Krimsky, American Scientist “Probably never before has the emergence of a technology-based new industry been so exhaustive covered-while still in its gestation period…An excellent and very readable review.”-S. Allen Heininger, Chemical and Engineering News “The author raises important questions about whether the character of this university-industrial complex adequately allows for the kind of public discussion and participation necessary to insure consideration of social, economic, and moral issues in the development of this important new technology.”-Harvard Educational Review “A fine description of a vital new field. It deserves wide readership.” -David Silbert & Duncan Neuhauser, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine
