Genetic Bill of Rights
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Preserve the Earth's Biological and Genetic Diversity
Are you aware of the Genetic Bill of Rights? Do you have concerns about genetic research, gene banks, genetically modified foods (GMO) or other types of biological engineering?
DNA testing helps prevent disease, improve law enforcement and make our lives better but there's also a dark side to genetic sciences, research and DNA data collection.
Do you know what's going on in bio-genetic research that could change your world forever, and what may likely affect the health and rights of your children and grandchildren. Food your family eats every day may be genetically modified - but not labeled, so how would you know?
How much do you know about the DNA Database, CODIS and how they might impact individual privacy?
This lens hopes to move you to become more aware of bio-ethics and to learn about the Genetic Bill of Rights proposed by The Board of Directors of the Council for Responsible Genetics.
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirtybodega/ / CC BY 2.0Updated September 12, 2010
Know Your Genetic Rights
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The Genetic Bill of Rights
"New genetic technologies pose unprecedented challenges to human integrity, individual liberty and the health of the biosphere. Since the questions that these technologies raise affect all of us, there is a pressing need to ensure the public is brought into the process of regulation and governance." - Gene Watch
GBR KNOW YOUR RIGHTS Poster1. All people have the right to preservation of the earth's biological and genetic diversity.
2. All people have the right to a world in which living organisms cannot be patented, including human beings, animals, plants, microorganisms and all their parts.
3. All people have the right to a food supply that has not been genetically engineered.
4. All indigenous peoples have the right to manage their own biological resources, to preserve their traditional knowledge, and to protect these from expropriation and biopiracy by scientific, corporate or government interests.
5. All people have the right to protection from toxins, other contaminants, or actions that can harm their genetic makeup and that of their offspring.
6. All people have the right to protection against eugenic measures such as forced sterilization or mandatory screening aimed at aborting or manipulating selected embryos or fetuses.
7. All people have the right to genetic privacy including the right to prevent the taking or storing of bodily samples for genetic information without their voluntary informed consent.
8. All people have the right to be free from genetic discrimination.
9. All people have the right to DNA tests to defend themselves in criminal proceedings.
10. All people have the right to have been conceived, gestated, and born without genetic manipulation.
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Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture
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"We ... find ourselves in the midst of a historic battle over two very different visions of the future of food in the 21st century. A grassroots public movement for organic, ecological, and humane food is now challenging the decades-long hegemony of the corporate, industrial model." With 58 essays and more than 250 photographs, Kimbrell, director of the Center for Food Safety, aims to provide "a timely treasure trove of ammunition" for that movement. The ammunition includes a litany of environmental harms caused by industrial agriculture and a strategy for bringing about "the end of agribusiness." - Editors of Scientific American
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The Results of Genetic Modifications
Franken Food and Monster Weeds
Genetically Modified (GM) Foods
GM Foods are Akin to Franken Foods to Some Folks
Critics have objected to GM foods on several grounds, including theoretical or imagined safety issues,[5] ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact that these organisms are subject to intellectual property law... " - read more at Wikipedia
- Genetically modified food - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from genetically modified organisms.
- Genetically Modified Foods and Organisms --HGP Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
- Overview of GM foods, crops, organisms. Pros and cons of genetic modification.
- WHO | 20 questions on genetically modified foods
- Microbiological risks Chemical risks Biotechnology and nanotechnology Food standards
GE Alfalfa - Genetically Engineered Alfalfa for Cattle Feed
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Biodiversity and Genetic Engineering Information
Pro and Con Articles on Genetic Engineering
- Council for Responsible Genetics
- The Council for Responsible Genetics fosters public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of genetic technologies. They publish the magazine, Gene Watch.
- Boston University Biodefense
- Article: Mistakes Happen: Accidents and Security Breaches at Biocontainment Laboratories
- Loss of Biodiversity through genetic engineering
- Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are rights to make, use, and sell a new product or technology that are granted, usually for a period of 17- 20 years, solely to the inventor or the corporation which files a claim on the inventor's behalf. They generally take the form of patents, trademarks, or copyrights and have traditionally fallen under the domain of national law. Different countries have produced different IPR laws, each one a balance between industry's desire to capitalize on its investments in technological development and the rights of society to benefit from the knowledge and resources of its country.
- Say no to genetic engineering | Greenpeace International
- While scientific progress on molecular biology has a great potential to increase our understanding of nature and provide new medical tools, it should not be used as justification to turn the environment into a giant genetic experiment by commercial interests.
- Synthetic biology: Rewriting the code for life - gm-food - 11 June 2008 - New Scientist
- The cutting edge of synthetic biology is on the brink of myriad possibilities for biotechnology in decades to come
- National Institute of Health
- Search results page on NIH web site for keyphrase "genetic engineering"
- ELSI Research Program
- Overview of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program at the National Human Genome Research Institute, including lists of staff and funding opportunities.
- The Science of Growing Body Parts - TIME
- Taking a page out of a science fiction tale, a scientist at Wake Forest University has figured out how to grow human organs in the lab.
- Organic Valley - Genetic Engineering - GMOs
- You may not think about alfalfa much when you're drinking organic milk, but organic alfalfa is important to organic farming, as a nourishing animal feed that's also a nitrogen-fixing soil enhancer. Once GE alfalfa is introduced, its contamination of non-GE plants - including organic - is all but inevitable. And because alfalfa is fed to dairy cows and other livestock, contamination puts organic dairy and meat at risk, too!
Genetic Rights Art Project
Genetic Bill of Rights Mural Series
C.C. Arshagra and Mariam Muradian make impressive social statements about the Genetic Bill of Rights in their visual, written and performance art pieces.Poster Print Signature Piece "Consequences" by Mariam Muradian - Genetic Bill of Rights Painting Series
Human Health and Biodiversity
Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
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Sustaining Life presents a comprehensive - and sobering - view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity.
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Both Sides - Benefits and Risks of Genetic Manipulation
Genetic research offers real benefits and alarming risks
Biowarfare and Terrorism
Biowarfare and Terrorism
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How and why the US initiated, sustained and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms buildup. Linking U.S. biowarfare development to the October 2001 anthrax attack on Congress-the most significant political attack on US democracy in recent history-Boyle sheds new light on * the motives for the attack * the media black hole of silence * why the FBI may never apprehend the perpetrators of this seminal crime of the 21st century The American people have deep cause for public concern about the US Chemical and Biological Defense Program.
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Human Genome Project - Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
Human genetic information issues of ethics, legality and society
Make Your Voice Heard on Genetic Rights
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phoenix-arizona-friends
Jun 27, 2011 @ 6:14 pm | delete
- I was surprised to read about this bill. Interesting stuff.
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Desilegend Oct 29, 2010 @ 12:29 pm | delete
- Never heard about it before but as you I try to buy organic.
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JeremyCrow
Oct 18, 2010 @ 8:17 am | delete
- Great lens! Very thought provoking. I don't have a problem with GMO in principle, but do feel that a lot of abuses are happening in the real world. It is a complicated issue! Thanks for sharing this information. I have featured this lens on my biotechnology-for-beginners lens. SquidLiked and Favorited.
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Genetics 101
Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Cutting-edge, introductory genetics text authored by an unparalleled author team, including Nobel Prize winner, Leland Hartwell. Covers integration of Mendelian and molecular principles, providing students with the links between early genetics understanding and the new molecular discoveries that have changed the way the field of genetics is viewed.
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Genetic Bill of Rights Duel
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