BY JAN HAAG

ESSAYS + POETRY + MUSIC + TEXTILE ART + TRAVEL + FICTION

SOCIAL JUSTICE




NOTES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE

Began the day after the Protest of the Century which Won Against the WTO
December 4, 1999




Following are various thoughts and brief essays about Social Justice. If you agree with them, you are welcome to borrow them and reprint them. If you know more about the subject than I do, you are welcome to borrow what I have written and add to it. My e-mail address is jhaag@u.washington.edu. Let me hear from you.

NOTE: I won't have a chance to work on this further until January, 2000, but again, let me hear from you, and what you send me, I will incorporate.






Topics





Merging of the Multinationals, banks, oil companies, hi-tech companies, etc.


Soon there will be just 100 of the world's riches people owning 95% of the world's wealth instead of 200.






Patenting Human Genes


Most of the world does not have genetic diseases! To allow the medical and pharmacutical establishment to patent our genes for "good purposes" and then charge exhorbitant prices for their services and drugs -- and consequently own the rights to our bodies, our genes, our chromosomes, our micro-organisisms, our plants, our animals so they can sell the world's "common wealth" that has been freely given, exchanged, researched since the human species began!!!! -- is NOT ACCEPTABLE! Help to repeal the NEW patent laws that allow for the patenting of human genes, et al.





Genetically Modified Food


Most of the world does not want to eat genetically modified food. The Montsano's of this world do not want to hear this. They are trying to prevent us even knowing whether or not we are eating altered substances. Lobby for labeling of genetically modified food, and BOYCOTT ALL tampered-with food substances. Eat Organic Only! if you possibly can.

Montsano's motive in meddling with agriculture is not to "feed the world" -- the world is perfectly capable of feeding itself, if left to grow organic food under a system of sustainable argriculture -- but to buy up, own, and control the food supply of all human beings!!!





BOYCOTT


Below is the beginning of a list of known genetically modified foods. DON'T EAT THEM:

CORN, corn syrup, corn-meal, all those deliciouis Mexican chips and tortillas, if made in America -- unless specifically label organic or non-genetically modified -- are likely to be tainted.

SOY BEANS, all soy products, soy milk, soy oil, etc. Indeed this one is ironic, since so many health foods have, since the beginning of the health food movement, been made of soy. But now! DON'T EAT ANY OF THEM! unless they are labeled organic or non-genetically modified.

I know there are many more genetically modified food substances -- help me identify them and list them! In January this list will, I believe, be shockingly long.







SOCIAL JUSTICE



BY JAN HAAG

MUSIC + POETRY + TEXTILE ART + TRAVEL + FICTION + ESSAYS

21ST CENTURY ART, C.E. -- B.C., A Context

INTRODUCTION + HAAG'S BIO




Copyright © 1999 Jan Haag
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Jan Haag may be reached via e-mail: jhaag@u.washington.edu





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