Biocolonization: The Patenting of Life and the Global Market in Body Parts
Author(s)
Kimbrell, Andrew
Abstract
Promoted as a panacea for solving the problems of disease and food supply, biotechnology has made its entry into one of the last great uncommercialized wilderness areas: the genetic structure of living organisms, from plants to humans. In this chapter, Andrew Kimbrell, who has successfully brought many of this era’s landmark legal actions against corporate excess in the area of biotechnology, describes the latest instrument of global control, the patenting of life forms, as a potent neocolonizing technique.
