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False Shiva (aka “Lord Monsanto” ) appears benevolent, hiding behind a beloved Shiva mask, his stance and multiple arms a poor imitation of the real Shiva. He is surrounded by dead and dying leaves, and a gold lasso to “Round Up” his victims, which include GM Corn, Soy, Rice and Beets. He holds in his hands a poison apple, a leafy noose with the bodies of hanging Indian suicide farmers, and a Wall Street Journal, which is also his dhoti. He stands victorious in his “merciless” Nike golf shoes, on the body of Mother Earth, whose basket of fresh fruit is scattered.
Yeah yeah, I know it’s bleak, but a lot of religious kitsch is pretty bleak too!
This is the second in a series of “Corporate Icons” I am working on – icons for a new and dismal age of rule by Corporate Demons. So far I have used Byzantine and Hindu religious kitsch as inspiration – look for Western medieval and Persian illuminated manuscripts for the next ones.
Mixed media - acrylic on wood panel, leaves are made out of shrinky dinks. Large - 24" x 30"
Samples of tropical forages conserved in vitro at CIAT gene bank in Colombia. Seeds of these plants were recently sent for conservation to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
Credit: ©2012CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Credit: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.
Credit: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Improved bush beans perform better than local varieties, but delivery systems to get them to farmers are key. Visit: www.pabra-africa.org
Credit: ©2015CIAT/StephanieMalyon
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RIPE postdoctoral researcher Amanda DeSouza genetically engineers cassava, adding genes to increase the yield of this staple root crop.
Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) is engineering plants to more efficiently turn the sun’s energy into food to sustainably increase worldwide food productivity. The international research project is funded by a $25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Learn more at ripe.illinois.edu/.
Image credit: Claire Benjamin/RIPE
Bean breeding at CIAT in Kawanda, Uganda.
Credit: ©2009CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Washington DC, October 12, 2013. Social justice activists staged a small but spirited rally on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House and then marched to Monsanto's Washington offices just off K Street. One of the speakers at the rally thanked the "two hundred" attendees but I counted only seventy five. The march did succeed in starting quite a few conversations among onlookers along the route about the safety of our food and Monsanto's role in it.
Olive fruit fly pupae are washed and dried before being sterilized with gamma rays. The pupae are then transported to the release site. IAEA Entomology Unit, Seibersdorf, Austria
Photo Credit: Andrew John Jessup / IAEA
Monsanto Company is a publicly traded American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. It is a leading producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed and of the herbicide glyphosate, which it markets under the Roundup brand. Founded in 1901 by John Francis Queeny, by the 1940s it was a major producer of plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibers. Notable achievements by Monsanto and its scientists as a chemical company included breakthrough research on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation and being the first company to mass-produce light emitting diodes (LEDs). The company also formerly manufactured controversial products such as the insecticide DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, and recombinant bovine somatotropin.
Monsanto was among the first to genetically modify a plant cell, along with three academic teams, which was announced in 1983, and was among the first to conduct field trials of genetically modified crops, which it did in 1987. It remained one of the top 10 U.S. chemical companies until it divested most of its chemical businesses between 1997 and 2002, through a process of mergers and spin-offs that focused the company on biotechnology.
Monsanto was a pioneer in applying the biotechnology industry business model to agriculture, using techniques developed by Genentech and other biotech drug companies in the late 1970s in California. In this business model, companies invest heavily in research and development, and recoup the expenses through the use and enforcement of biological patents. Monsanto's application of this model to agriculture, along with a growing movement to create a global, uniform system of plant breeders' rights in the 1980s, came into direct conflict with customary practices of farmers to save, reuse, share and develop plant varieties. Its seed patenting model has also been criticized as biopiracy and a threat to biodiversity. Monsanto's role in these changes in agriculture (which include its litigation and its seed commercialization practices), its current and former agbiotech products, its lobbying of government agencies, and its history as a chemical company, have made Monsanto controversial.
Legal actions and controversies
Monsanto is notable for its involvement in high profile lawsuits, as both plaintiff and defendant. It has been involved in a number of class action suits, where fines and damages have run into the hundreds of millions of dollars, usually over health issues related to its products. Monsanto has also made frequent use of the courts to defend its patents, particularly in the area of agricultural biotechnology.
On 25 May 2013, rallies against Monsanto took place. According to organizers, rallies were planned in 52 countries and 436 cities, and their goal was to protest against Monsanto and the genetically modified food it produces.
Work as part of CIAT's Genetic resources program.
Credit: ©2010CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Work as part of CIAT's Genetic resources program.
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Bean farmer Richard Hatungimana. The Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance works with the Institut des Siences Agronomique du Burundi (ISABU), to give farmers access to improved beans. The beans have been bred with characteristics like high iron; some yield more produce and some are more resilient to drought. Researchers at ISABU are working with key farmers, to produce more beans. And they are linking producers who are adding value, for example by grinding beans into bean flour, to feed to children as part of a school feeding program to tackle malnutrition with World Vision. www.ciat.cgiar.org or www.pabra-africa.org
Credit: ©2017CIAT/GeorginaSmith
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The Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance works with the Institut des Siences Agronomique du Burundi (ISABU), to give farmers access to improved beans. The beans have been bred with characteristics like high iron; some yield more produce and some are more resilient to drought. Researchers at ISABU are working with key farmers, to produce more beans. And they are linking producers who are adding value, for example by grinding beans into bean flour, to feed to children as part of a school feeding program to tackle malnutrition with World Vision. www.ciat.cgiar.org or www.pabra-africa.org
Credit: ©2017CIAT/GeorginaSmith
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CIAT’s bean genebank at Kawanda research station, Uganda, receives new varieties from Colombia and safeguards beans across Africa. Researchers use the beans to breed more resilient varieties which are not only more drought and heat tolerant, but also more resistant to harmful pests and diseases, protecting the important bean staple.
Credit: ©2016CIAT/GeorginaSmith
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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.
Credit: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Improved bush beans perform better than local varieties, but delivery systems to get them to farmers are key. Visit: www.pabra-africa.org
Credit: ©2015CIAT/StephanieMalyon
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Work as part of CIAT's Genetic resources program.
Credit: ©2010CIAT/NeilPalmer
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The Mattson cooker measures the time it takes for beans to cook. This research is screening beans that cook faster -
the ones that cook fastest will be selected for releasing for farmers. CIAT’s bean genebank at Kawanda research station, Uganda, receives new varieties from Colombia and safeguards beans across Africa. Researchers use the beans to breed more resilient varieties which are not only more drought and heat tolerant, but also more resistant to harmful pests and diseases, protecting the important bean staple.
Credit: ©2016CIAT/GeorginaSmith
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(A genome is) ‘the complete set of genes in a particular organism.’ [Wikipedia/Introduction to genetics]
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Stephen Musoke. CIAT’s bean genebank at Kawanda research station, Uganda, receives new varieties from Colombia and safeguards beans across Africa. Researchers use the beans to breed more resilient varieties which are not only more drought and heat tolerant, but also more resistant to harmful pests and diseases, protecting the important bean staple.
Credit: ©2016CIAT/GeorginaSmith
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For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org
Work as part of CIAT's Genetic resources program.
Credit: ©2010CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Samples of tropical forages conserved in vitro at CIAT gene bank in Colombia. Seeds of these plants were recently sent for conservation to the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway.
Credit: ©2012CIAT/NeilPalmer
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For more info: ciat-comunicaciones@cgiar.org
(A genome is) ‘the complete set of genes in a particular organism.’ [Wikipedia/Introduction to genetics]
Hooded Sweatshirt, Sweatshirt, Long Sleeve T-shirt, T-shirt, Sleeveless T-shirt.
Go to online store: www.printfection.com/brainfood-clothing
"Androidification" is a neologism for the evolutionary bio-technological procedures of Genetic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence/Robotics that take place on the contemporary Anthropotype of Homo Universalis, transforming him/her/it to Homo Superius.
After Homo Sapiens, Catholicus and Universalis, Homo Superius is the first Anthropotype that will evolve and dominate not by Natural Selection, but Androidification