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Arizona, 29.11.2006

Impacts of Biotechnology to be Examined at Conference before Grand Opening of New BIO5 Institute

On Wednesday, November 29th at 7pm in the Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering Building (NE corner of Mountain & Speedway), Room 202, at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Ms. Teresa Leal and Mr. Carlos Marentes will speak on the topic 'Biotechnology, globalization, and social justice: Why it's time for food sovereignty.'

The University of Arizona Institute for Collaborative Bioresearch, commonly known as Bio 5, will hold a grand opening of its new building this December 1st. Bio 5, a consortium of many departments and research labs across five research areas, is funded with federal grants, Arizona sales tax funds, and corporate research contracts. While most of Bio5�s work is in medical biotechnology and basic biological sciences, they do a lot of agricultural biotechnological research.

Agricultural biotechnology has been a controversial development for years, more so in Europe, Latin America or Asia than the US, even though the US has more acres of biotech crops than any other country and more GM foods on supermarket shelves, unlabeled, than anywhere else.

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Calls for action to oppose the opening of BIO5:
Let's Rain on their Parade
Vegetable & Livestock Bloc


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