http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/305/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/217 <p>When, in 2004, one of my favourite Italian thinkers, Giorgio Agamben, refused to come to the US, I was pleased. He <a href="http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpagamben2.htm">objected to being fingerprinted in order to get his visa</a>. And this close monitoring of our bodies, and the 'biopolitics' (to use the current phrase) that accompanies this surveillance, has some fairly dark origins in fascism. </p> <p>Which is why it'll come as little surprise that in the United States have been announced technologies that will soon be applied not only to the cattle industry, but to (some) people too. Jim Hightower writes lucidly about <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/62858">how the US government merely wants to protect its citizens from terrorist livestock</a>.<span class='read-more'><a href="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/217"> ... read more &raquo;</a></span></p> http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/217#comment Ch.5. Corporations in Agriculture Ch. 6. Pesticides, Genetic Engineering, Public Science, Cuba biometrics cattle remote sensing Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:20:34 -0600 Raj 217 at http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal