Dear Mr Gates, We Do Not Consent

An episode of the Earth Matters podcast, hosted by Bec Horridge, Claudia Craig, Mia Audrey & Keiran Stewart-Assheton., titled "Dear Mr Gates, We Do Not Consent" was published on March 10, 2019.

March 10, 2019 · Earth Matters

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Big profits for agribusiness & military are recklessly risking the spread of a new GMO technology called Gene Drives around the world, regardless of their currently largely unknown consequences. Gene drives to genetically code mice populations into extinction are set to be released in Western Australia by the CSIRO in partnership with the US Military & WA Dpt of Conservation. Meanwhile, in Africa, bio-synthetic research organisations also funded by US Military & the Gates Foundation are rushing headlong into their own proposed field studies in two villages in Burkina Faso, in the attempt to engineer gene drive mosquitoes But grassroots farmers and environmentalists on the ground are asking, does all the hype around the conservation and health benefits of gene drives essentially amount to a stealth way to introduce this new - and profoundly dodgy sounding GMO technology - with disingenuous white saviourism and greenwashing?Guests: Lousie Sales (Friends of the Earth Australia, Emerging Tech campaign); Mariann Bassey Orovwuje (Friends of the Earth Africa & the Alliance for Food Sovereignty Africa); Zahra Moloo, (A Question of Consent documentary).Earth Matters #1182 was produced by Nicky Stott.(This 60min podcast was originally broadcast in a 2 part episode)

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Big profits for agribusiness & military are recklessly risking the spread of a new GMO technology called Gene Drives around the world, regardless of their currently largely unknown consequences. Gene drives to genetically code mice populations into extinction are set to be released in Western Australia by the CSIRO in partnership with the US Military & WA Dpt of Conservation. Meanwhile, in Africa, bio-synthetic research organisations also funded by US Military & the Gates Foundation are rushing headlong into their own proposed field studies in two villages in Burkina Faso, in the attempt to engineer gene drive mosquitoes But grassroots farmers and environmentalists on the ground are asking, does all the hype around the conservation and health benefits of gene drives essentially amount to a stealth way to introduce this new - and profoundly dodgy sounding GMO technology - with disingenuous white saviourism and greenwashing?Guests: Lousie Sales (Friends of the Earth Australia, Emerging Tech campaign); Mariann Bassey Orovwuje (Friends of the Earth Africa & the Alliance for Food Sovereignty Africa); Zahra Moloo, (A Question of Consent documentary).Earth Matters #1182 was produced by Nicky Stott.(This 60min podcast was originally broadcast in a 2 part episode)

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