To: <nettime-l at bbs.thing.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:32:00 -0800 From: Biotic.Baking.Brigade at bbs.thing.net (bbb_apple at hotmail.com) Subject: <nettime> Pastry Uprising Against Genetix Continues in Montreal
Canadian Federal Minister of Health and president of biotech coalition pied at biosecurity protocol conference!
[Communiques Received by Biotic Baking Brigade from Les Entartistes]
-------------------------------------------------- Montreal, friday January 21st 2000
FRANKENFOOD
Where you find eugenism.... there`s no fun !
This morning, at around 10:30, in the Salon des Huîtres of the Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal, Québec, Canada, Joyce Groote, president of BIOTECanada and also president of the World Coalition of the Biotechnology Industry, got our sweet natural cream pie at the opening of the conference on the biosecurity protocol being held in Montreal until January 28th.
Miss Groote doesn`t have to worry : our genetically modified pie was tested on a dozen of other guinea-pigs before hers. Were added to this pie, a democracy gene, a respect of the natural world gene and finally a gene that will heal the divine superiority complex over nature. Isn`t the desire for improving the vegetal world, the animal world, and now the human world an insanity? These capitalo-scientists, financed by public funds (fiscal treatement in Canada for research and development in this sector is the best among industrial countries) are forcing their frankenfood on us - we`re lab rats - without any public consultation nor debate. What about the transnationals in this coalition (2300 of them in 130 countries, like the unfamous Monsanto that doesn`t even serve its frankenfood in its own cafeteria!) that are using a "profit" gene while patenting all forms of life?
60 to 75% of all modified food in our supermarkets contain GMOs. BIOTECanada is proposing a new form a "voluntary labelling" - please, we`re foolish but not stupid - but this measure was implented years ago! No one yet has had the courage to use it. This is not a surprise to us. The Entartistes, pionners as usual, have just offered the very first product in North America being voluntarely labelled as transgenic : behind the dessert plate was written the word "Biotarte" (Biopie).
We now wish that the industry will be inspire by our pro-active action because we need to know what is going into our stomachs
This pie is being dedicated to those that are taking part in biotech resistance all around our beautiful spaceship called "Planet Earth".
www.dsuper.net/~aboyeur/tarte.html entartiste at multimania.com
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Montreal, Monday January 24th 2000
FRANKENFOOD PART 2 Operation "Rock This Town"
This morning around 10:00 AM in West Montreal, Allan Rock, Minister of Health received his just desserts from Agent S'Pie of Les Entartistes (The Pie-Oneers) in the form of a sweet lemon merengue pie. This was another gesture to denounce our government's position on GE foods as they attend the Biosecurity Protocol Conference being held this week .
We are being force fed GE foods with the consent of the Minister of Health, so we decided to force-feed him with the finest of pies. Rock could not tell whether the pie was made with transgenic ingredients, that is precisely the problem with GE Foods. We never know. But don't worry, the Minister of Health has approved all of this.
Minister Rock seems very concerned about people's health in the arena of tobacco (the first transgenic plant) and is planning a strong labelling regime. However, Rock allows GE foods to be sold without any long term testing for human health or environmental safety. Our tax dollars are used to subsidize the genetic engineering industry, and the public are used as lab rats. Over 200 of Health Canada's own scientists said that there were inadequate resources to properly evaluate the safety of GE foods.
Industry and government are promoting "voluntary labeling," and though this option has been open to companies for years, they have not chosen to label products in North America. Would tobacco companies put diseased lungs on their packages if it was only voluntary?
Last year Robert Shapiro (Monsanto CEO), last friday Joyce Groote (President of BIOTECanada and of the Global Biotechnolgy Industry Coalition), today Allan Rock, tomorrow who knows? We hope that all of the delegates enjoy the week as they decide our fate behind closed doors.
Pie High!
The Pie is the Limit! Que Qui Peut Puisse!
pictures available at: www.dsuper.net/~aboyeur/tarte.html email: entartiste at multimania.com
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"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
--- last words of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
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