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Soil Under Siege in Chiapas

By AAN Staff
march 14, 2002  04:29 pm
Soil Under Siege in Chiapas
San Antonio Current's News Editor Lisa Sorg recently traveled to Chiapas and found that biopirates are pillaging the region in search of the perfect prescription. "The innocuously named 'life sciences' industry is threatening life itself. Through biopiracy -- stealing plants to patent and later manufacture profitable drugs -- corporations such as Merck are undermining biodiversity," Sorg writes. This is the first installment in an occasional series about issues facing Southern Mexico and its indigenous people.
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