How to pronounce“biopiracy”in English
indigenous peoples and local communities in the form of their genetic resources and Associated traditional knowledge for a current example of
biopiracy take the psychoactive plant mixture iasa in the 1980s an entrepreneur from the US patented one of the plants used
in The Brew despite the fact it had been used for Centuries by indigenous healers in South America in the Amazon region in South
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The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally occurring substances.
“Capital now has to look for new colonies to invade and exploit for its further accumulation. These new colonies are, in my view, the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants, and animals. Resistance to biopiracy is a resistance to the ultimate colonization of life itself—of the future of evolution as well as the future of non-Western traditions of relating to and knowing nature.”
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