Preserve the Earth's Biological and Genetic Diversity
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 the technological world that could change your world forever, and what may likely affect the health and rights of your children and grandchildren?
How much do you know about the DNA Database, CODIS and how they might impact individual privacy?
Are you aware of the Genetic Bill of Rights?
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.
Know Your Genetic Rights
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.
Copyright 2000. All rights reserved The Council for Responsible Genetics. May be reproduced without permission ONLY in its ENTIRETY, INCLUDING this copyright notice.
Genetic Rights Art Project
YouTube Genetic Rights Art Project. #01 of 10
Genetic Bill of Rights Painting Series. Paintings by Mariam Muradian & C.C. Arshagra. The Genetic Bill of Rights was drafted in 2000 by The COUNCIL FOR RESPONSIBLE GENETICS. The current Chair of the Council is Sheldon Krimsky. He also is the Editor of the book Rights and Liberties In The Biotech Age. A special thanks to Martha Herbert of Mass General Hospital in Boston MA. www,Gene-watch.org of Cambridge MA and of course Mariam Muradian for believing in the concept and bringing the dream of this concept from a small attempt at painting number one to the 10 paintings plus the series signature piece. Now it all here for you to share, rate, subscribe to, post on your sites, and of course RESPOND to in text and video form. I hope you appreciate this attempt to bring this vital Bill of Rights to you in the form of art. This is for you to value and make a difference with. The best of what you tube can stand for. The series is to be respected. It is not about me or any one individual. Be clear and not hateful that there are many who do not what you to be informed. Why the press is giving you the people less news? and no news at all? It is a shame to journalist of the world. A bottom line for the price of your rights shame. You can change that. Thank You, C.C.
Runtime: 3:10
242 views
0 Comments:
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
Amazon Price: $26.40 (as of 01/09/2009)
List Price: $34.95
Used Price: $36.73
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.
Usually ships in 24 hours
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.
Both Sides - Benefits and Risks of Genetic Manipulation
Genetic research offers real benefits and alarming risks
Biowarfare and Terrorism
Biowarfare and Terrorism
Amazon Price: $11.01 (as of 01/09/2009)
List Price: $12.95
Used Price: $6.87
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.
Usually ships in 24 hours
Human Genome Project - Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
Human genetic information issues of ethics, legality and society
Human Genome Project - Ethical, Legal, & Social Implications
Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) of the Human Genome Project. Discusses important ethical or societal issues of the Human Genome Project. Producer: NIH Contact Information: http://www.genome.gov/Pages/EducationKit/ Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Runtime: 1:31
10195 views
6 Comments:
CC Arshagra - Genetic Bill of Rights Project
YouTube Genetic Rights Art Project. Main INTRODUCTION
World Community Project: Main Introduction. MOST IMPORTANTLY Watch, Listen & RESPOND! Your opinion matters. My guide-lines and suggestions and opinions are just that, and yet I do---at this time---feel a certain responsibility to manage some quality. Do you find this project's voice important enough to add yours?
Runtime: 3:43
269 views
0 Comments:
Make Your Voice Heard on Genetic Rights
If you found this lens informative, please let me know. If you know of another lens or web site that relates to the genetic bill of rights, issues of biodiversity or genetic engineering please make a suggestion for a new link.
Don't forget to voice your opinion on this topic in the DUEL module, and please rate this lens with the stars at the top of the page. You must be a Squidoo member to comment or rate - join now by clicking this link .
Genetics 101
Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
Amazon Price: $128.60 (as of 01/09/2009)
List Price:
Used Price: $85.00
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.
Usually ships in 24 hours
Genetic Bill of Rights Duel
Where do you stand on the issue of genetic rights and research?
Please keep comments respectful and to the point. You must be a member of Squidoo to participate. You can join now to express your opinion about the Genetic Bill of Rights.
What's Your Opinion of the Genetic Bill of Rights (GBR)
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byGBR is Important and Essential
GBR is Chicken Little Mentality
Fatal Harvest - AgriBusiness Examined
Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy Of Industrial Agriculture
Amazon Price: (as of 01/09/2009)
List Price: $45.00
Used Price: $46.00
"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
Genetics Lenses
-
Genetically Modified Foods: The Debate
-
Genetically modified food, a type of GMO (genetically modified organisms), is produced from changing the genetic characteristics of an organism, such as a seed. This can be done through inserting a new DNA into the organism, adding, removing or rearr...
-
Genetic Engineering: Should it be legal?
-
Genetic Engineering is an extremely controversial breakthrough in science. It's a technology that allows us to do many things. We can use genetic engineering to clone, alter genes, and can aid researchers in finding cures to diseases. I have decided...
