Beverly planting peas on the ACE premesis. This included digging a rabbit fence, planting the (non-genetically-modified) peas, and watering them. I donated a bottle of coyote urine to the cause.

Garnet Hertz in the Tissue Culture Lab at UCI as part of the Symbiotica BioTech Art Workshop. Photo by Tad Hirsch.

Young woman raises sign above head about corporate greed, other "March Against Monsanto protesters in background.

"March Against Monsanto" protesters, including woman with sign about the EPA and FDA.

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Rund 20.000 Menschen gingen in der Berliner Innenstadt auf die Straße, um unter dem Motto "Wir habene s satt" für eine Kehrtwende in der Agrarpolitik zu demonstrieren. Auf dem jährlich stattfindenden Demonstrationszug wurde neben der Stärkung der biologischen Landwirtschaft und eine Abkehr von Massentierhaltung vor allem auch der Verzicht auf Gentechnik und die Ablehnung der Freihandelsabkommen TTIP und CETA gefordert.

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RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

Aerial view shows the grid pattern of the relaxing photoprotection field trials. Image Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois

Art: Rob Davis.

Words: Michael Vance and R. A. Jones.

Team members of the RIPE project transplanting seedlings for the 2016 field trials. RIPE is engineering crops that more efficiently turn the sun's energy into food. This project could increase yields by as much as 60% to help smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia feed their communities and provide for their families.

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Oron Catts' History of Tissue Culture presentation.

Art: Rob Davis.

Words: Michael Vance and R. A. Jones.

RIPE field trials at the IGB BioEnergy Farm

IGB growth chamber close-ups.

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The work of CIAT's Agrobiodiversity Research Area.

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The work of CIAT's Agrobiodiversity Research Area.

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Two young girls at Monsanto protest marching with arms around each other, large crowd of demonsttrators with signs in background.

Uday Shanbhag - Kamadhenu - Oil on canvas, 59x83 in, 1998

This is the steak I took a sample from, cut up into a mushy paste, and incubated. Steak courtesy of Ralph's grocery store.

Art: Ruddy Rob Davis.

Words: Marvelous Michael Vance and racous R. A. Jones.

Petri dishes of "splotches of my past", located around the ACE Base: Margaret's vomit-stain, a slick residue of drained tuna-water, and a spit-spooge-splotch on the front door.