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Biopiracy
The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
by Vandana
Shiva
148 pages
1997
ISBN 0-89608-555-4 paper $13.00, ISBN 0-89608-556-2 cloth $40.00
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Biopiracy is a
learned, clear and passionately stated objection to the ways in which
Western businesses are being allowed to expropriate natural processes
and traditional forms of knowledge.
Praise for Biopiracy:
"Biopiracy is a path-breaking work on one of the most important issues
of the coming century." --Jeremy Rikfin
"With her characteristic blend of analysis and passion, Vandana Shiva
traces the continuity from the European colonization of 'native' peoples
. . . to the present appropriation of the natural resources they need
for their physical and cultural survival. An important book that should
be read by anyone wanting to understand the global threat posed by the
technological transformations of organisms, cells, and molecules and
by their exploitation for profit."--Ruth Hubbard
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