Excerpts

"What would happen if scientists could clone Thomas Jefferson, who imagined a farming Utopia for America, and invite him to a 21st-century Thanksgiving dinner? Who would explain to Jefferson that the turkey was spiked with steroids, hormones and antibiotics; that the vegetables were genetically scrambled; that the dessert was laced with diarrhea-inducing fake fat; and that the rice included human genes?"

"White-smocked bio-engineers are now giving full rein to their artistic impulses, splashing genes, cells, organs and body fluids around with an exuberance not seen since Jackson Pollack flung colors on his inviting canvas."

"Inmates have become the raw material for a prison-industrial complex, shoring up perpetual profits for McJails. Corporate prisons are paid on a per-prisoner/per-day basis, and thus they lobby hard for longer mandatory sentences. Inmates also provide cheap labor, and they are about to become, once again, guinea pigs for pharmaceutical trials.  All of this signals the conversion of people into valuable bio-mass."

"The Nuremburg Code should prevent scientists from permanently warehousing and classifying everyone's DNA in a genomic 'bio-bank' and then running tests with an eye towards long-range behavioral modification. But it won't…"

"By fusing plant and animal DNA, organisms acquire characteristics entirely impossible in nature - like rushing to maturity in half the normal time and acquiring bizarre characteristics… We could wait patiently for two million years and never witness natural selection yield, by chance, a strawberry resistant to frost because it somehow acquired a salmon's 'anti-freeze' gene." 

"PT-141, or its active ingredient, was first tried on female lab rats in a rather intrusive manner. Researchers drilled holes directly into rat skulls in order to inject the chemical into their brains. A chemical wash sharply increased the 'solicitation behavior' of female lab rats to the extent that female rats dispensed with the flirtatious ear flipping and started 'mounting males.'"

"Ostensibly, Viagra, LibiGel and PT-141 promise individual liberation, but instead they undermine it by slowly shifting a person's sexuality to the marketplace to be bought, sold, and speculated over, just like any other commodity."

"The entire project of cosmetic surgery has been problematic since 1903, when a surgeon, Charles Miller, performed breast enlargements by opening women's chests and stuffing 'braided silk, bits of silk floss, particles of celluloid, vegetable ivory, and several other foreign materials' into the breast area. It's as if Mr. Miller opened up the breast cavity first and then ran around the room looking for filler…"

"Globalization and 'free markets' (so-called) were supposed to bring prosperity to billions of people, as promised by the World Bank and the IMF, Wall Street banks, and the US foreign policy establishment. These institutions have had almost 30 years to implement their vision and still half of humanity lives on a few dollars a day."

"In a throwback to the feudal agricultural system of the Middle Ages, Monsanto often charges farmers 'technology fees' per acre… It's high-tech serfdom, with landlords and all."

"Ilya Ivanov actually trekked to French Guinea in Africa with a team of scientists and $200,000. There, in the jungle, in makeshift conditions, he attempted to create this new Ape-Man by impregnating chimpanzees with human sperm."

"Educational institutions, ever ready to add layers of administration and bureaucracy, have found in ADHD another raison d'être. It buttresses their benevolent aristocracy."