A little Prakash techno-euphoria c/o AgBioView - item 1 below. Below that a little more techno-realism c/o 'Sieze the Day'. For more verse and worse: http://members.tripod.com/~ngin/poetry.htm

1. 'Biotech Rock n' Roll'
2. A mite more techno-realism?

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1. Biotech Rock n' Roll.... [from CS Prakash]

Yesterday I posted information on a music CD on food safety.  Here's the web site where you can listen/watch those songs sung by Cal Davis Professor Dr. Carl Winter and also get the lyrics.  http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html#lyrics

"As a serious food toxicologist with 14 years of experience as a University of California faculty member, I enjoy conducting research and developing food safety educational programs.  For the past five years, I have combined my previous background as a musician with my scientific and communication training to develop an innovative, humorous, and effective musical approach for food safety education."  - Dr. Winter

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CLONIN' DNA
(sing to the tune of "Surfin' USA" by Beach Boys)
If everybody had a lab bench
Across the U.S.A.
They'd be cranking out products
Nearly every day
You'd see them waving their test tubes
Just like Genetics 1A
Everybody's gone clonin'
Clonin' DNA

Flavr Savr tomato
Roundup resistant soy
Bovine somatotropin
Isn't it a joy?
Keep an eye out for Rifkin
or the P.E.T.A.
They don't want you clonin'
Clonin' DNA

Got a brand new strand here
I'm sure we'll replicate
Soon we'll have the sequence
We can hardly wait
Pairing up those bases
Of course there's T and A
We get all excited
Clonin' DNA

We're looking for expression
We're gonna have it quick
Playing in that helix
Thank you Watson and Crick
All over the genome
Put on your lab coat and stay
Everybody's gone clonin'
Clonin' DNA

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STILL SEEMS LIKE FOOD TO ME
(sing to the tune of Billy Joel's "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" )

What's the matter with the food I'm eatin
Are you worried that it's modified?
Maybe I should buy my food organic
Till these high-tech fears subside
Inside I tell ya that I'm not so worried honey
Even if Monsanto's makin' lots of money
Roundup ready soy beans
BST and fish genes
It still seems like food to me

/etc.

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2. A mite more techno-realism?

We've got the soya, we've got the lawyers,
The politicians in our pockets all the way to President!
The press and TV to guarantee the
Co-operation of your nation in our new experiment.

You did not choose it, but you'll have to use it:
We'll get our 'Roundup-Ready' fingerprint in every pie you eat,
With every patent, be a bit more blatant,
Till our corporation's domination of your globe'll be complete!

Mister Monsanto! Monster Mutanto!
We're turning Satan into Santa - Give everybody cancer!
Coming through now, we're changing you now,
The mother-nature Terminators,
Hell-on-earth creators,
Gene-manipulators,
Biotech dictators.
The future's gonna hate us....
Food 'n' Health 'n' Hope

from 'Food 'n' Health 'n' Hope'by Seize the Day
Read about the song & listen to it here:
http://www.seizetheday.org/monsanto/main.htm

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from 'Transgenic honey'

This is not food that the people need
It's a terminator-deal for corporate greed
Power of the people gonna stop the crop
The people in power have lost the plot

Seize the Day
listen to it here:
http://nt.oneworld.org/radio/store/preview199346.ram

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from 'Designer Kidz'

Goodbye Ancient Mystery -
the Call Of The Wild is history.
We'll weed out indigenous sperm
with the aid of a smart designer-germ
Select the hot shots that we need
for a cleaner, leaner, meaner breed;
A gene elite in a righteous war,
to waste whatever was on Earth before

Theo Simon, Seize the Day

Read about the song and listen to it here:
http://www.seizetheday.org/designer.htm