Fidelity Investments promos on YouTube

Synthetic biology promo on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xArETjua30 2.26min) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpVymZsUVfs&feature=relmfu (30 second summary)

Synthetic biology is a set of radical new genetic manipulation (GM) techniques, to use Nature as a “manufacturing platform” and DNA as patentable raw material. Craig Venter recently created the first synthetic microbe ever built from scratch. Now Fidelity Investments see more new life forms being created in the lab than the 1.7 million organisms found in Nature. Their lego view of the world sees life as ‘biobricks’. They conclude, “Nothing has the power to change how we live more than changing life itself.” 

The failed promises of existing GM techniques – e.g. goat milk with spider silk, bigger fish and anti-malarial drugs – are the basis for claims that SynBio is just an extension of GM, so relax. Nothing is further from the truth.

Monsanto letter to NSW farmers

Letter dated 22 March 2012 offering $10/tonne discount price cap on GM canola.

Free Bags of Hybrid Canola Seed: Advertisement

Bags of GM canola seeds given away.

Why GM-free SA? Forum with Nick Xenophon 16 April

Flyer invitation to Adelaide forum on 16 April 2012 

Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement flyer

A5 flyer on the The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement being negotiated among 9 countries and risks regarding GM. Author: Gene Ethics.