Friday, March 30, 2007

Pharmaceutical Companies and Food Sector

Communities Versus Pharmaceutical Conglomerates -
How Food Became a Casualty of Biotechnology's Promise :

Pharmaceutical conglomerates are using the agricultural sector, to underwrite their research and development efforts as they work to transform plants and animals into drug and organ factories to further their profits.

This experiment, unprecedented in human history, masquerades as a humanitarian effort directed toward growing more food and feeding more people. How Food Became a Casualty of Biotechnology's Promise, available at www.oaklandinstitute.org, exposes how food is merely the conduit through which the pharmaceutical conglomerates hope to develop and monopolize the basic technologies that promise profits far exceeding any imaginable from high-yielding crops bearing vitamin-fortified food.

Read the Press Release - Download the Policy Brief -
About Michael Heimbinder, Oakland Institute Fellow and Author of the Policy Brief
- Courtesy : Oakland Institute, International Forum on Globalization

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