From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Tue Nov 09 1999 - 13:38:42 MST
HALLOWEEN PROTEST AGAINST 'FRANKENSCIENCE':
This has not been a good year for life-scientists. Anti-GM activists dressed
as genetically engineered monsters took part in Halloween celebrations in
New York and Washington D.C. to protest against what they call
'Frankenscience'.
The Campaign for Responsible Transplantation were out in force on the
streets of New York's Greenwich Village during the famous night-time
Halloween Parade. They had created a four metre tall puppet of a mad
scientist who wore a dollar sign tie clip and clutched a model of a
pig-human hybrid. A number of 'hybrid attendants' wearing pig snouts danced
around with signs warning of the dangers of xenotransplantation. The
director of the campaign said that Halloween costumes seemed appropriate
because 'it's a very ghoulish technology'. In Washington D.C., Friends of
the Earth marched to a local branch of Safeways, wearing Frankenstein masks
and accompanied by a 'Gene Beast' who the campaigners hope will bring
attention to the genetically modified strawberries that contain a gene for
an antifreeze protein taken from the arctic flounder.
- New Scientist 6/11/99 'Monster protest against Frankenscience'
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Come the Singularity, prevailing extropians will perhaps no longer need to
contend with neo-Luddite alarmist reactionaries.
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