PUERTO RICO: THE FRANKENCROPS ISLAND AND HUMANS TURNED INTO GREY ALIENS

By Gundhramns Hammer

January 12, 2013

     Biotechnology frankensteins have taken over Puerto Rico

Biotech corn. Source: Council for Biotechnology Information

Puerto Rico is a testing ground for GM crops. The biotechnology investment is enormous. This frankenindustry employs nearly 3.000 people, with an investment of about 3,5 billion USD in the last few years. 

Most people outside this island do not know anything about this business-biotech deal that comprises academia, government and private investment corporations. This alliance compounds the Puerto Rico TechnoEconomic Corridor (PRTEC).

The tropical climate makes Puerto Rico an ideal place for biotechnology companies (Dow, Syngenta, Monsanto, Pioneer, Abbot, etc.) (Video 1). They can get up to four crops per year, without much opposition from the Puerto Rican public. 

 

 

Video 1. Biotech development in Puerto Rico.

There is a biotech umbrella on the island:  The Puerto Rico Agricultural Biotechnology Industry Association (PRABIA), founded in 1995. PRABIA points out that its main function is "to promote the development of the research and production of genetically improved seed in Puerto Rico." 

Current crops worked on the island, according to PRABIA, include: corn, soy, rice, sorghum, cotton, sunflower, beans, tomato and peanuts. 

The companies are interested in developing "resistance to pests ands diseases, drought and herbicide tolerance, and high yield and nutritional value seed production."

These are the companies associated under PRABIA:  

 

• 3MG   – Santa Isabel

• Ag Reliant – Santa Isabel

• Bayer – Sabana Grande

• DAS – Dow /Mycogen – Santa Isabel

• ICIA – Juana Díaz

• ISU – Iowa State University – Isabela

• Monsanto – Juana Díaz and Isabela

• Pioneer – Salinas

• RiceTec – Lajas

• Syngenta – Salinas and Juana Díaz

When it comes to GM matters if compared to Americans, someone has said that Puerto Ricans are in the dark as far as to genetic engineering and food biotechnology issues are concerned.

What worries some environmentalists is that a lot of testing is done outdoors, with uncontrolled experimentation.

 

Puerto Rico also has the largest concentration of pharmaceutical companies in the world (Table 1). Pharma companies go hand in hand with biotechnology companies, for both are interested in developing and marketing new products in the therapeutic areas so they need carry out research on protein pharmaceuticals, vaccines, stem cells, biomarkers, genetically enhanced microorganisms, biotransformation and formulation and advanced synthesis.

Table 1. List of some biotech and pharmaceutical companies in Puerto Rico. Source: The LabRat.com

Company Name	City	Short Summary
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals	Aguadilla	Angiotech pharmaceuticals is involved in the development and comercialization of drug-eluting medical devices and biomaterials.
Covidien	Barrio Palmas Catano	Covidien is focused on the devevlopment and commercialization of clinical and home healthcare products.
Johnson & Johnson	Caguas	Johnson & Johnson manufactures a broad range of products in the health care field. Their business is divided into three segments: Consumer, Pharmaceutical and Professional.
MOVA Pharmaceutical	Caguas	MOVA Pharmaceutical is an outsourcing partner for research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Patheon	Caguas	Patheon is a provider of contract drug manufacturing and development services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide.
St. Jude Medical	Caguas	St. Jude Medical is focused on the development and commercialization of medical devices for use in the treatments of cardiac, neurological and chronic pain patients.
Becton Dickinson	Cayey	Becton Dickinson manufactures and sells medical supplies and devices and diagnostic systems for use by healthcare professionals, research institutions, industry and the general public
Becton Dickinson	Comerio	Becton Dickinson manufactures and sells medical supplies and devices and diagnostic systems for use by healthcare professionals, research institutions, industry and the general public
Catalent Pharma Solutions	Guaynabo	Catalent Pharma Solutions is focused on providing contract development and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
NuVasive	Guaynabo	NuVasive is focused on the development and commercialization of products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders.
Amgen	Juncos	Amgen develops therapeutic proteins in oncology/hematopoiesis, inflammation, and neurobiology/endocrinology.
Becton Dickinson	Juncos	Becton Dickinson manufactures and sells medical supplies and devices and diagnostic systems for use by healthcare professionals, research institutions, industry and the general public
Becton Dickinson	Las Piedras	Becton Dickinson manufactures and sells medical supplies and devices and diagnostic systems for use by healthcare professionals, research institutions, industry and the general public
Catalent Pharma Solutions	Manati	Catalent Pharma Solutions is focused on providing contract development and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Patheon	Manati	Patheon is a provider of contract drug manufacturing and development services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide.
Covidien	Ponce	Covidien is focused on the devevlopment and commercialization of clinical and home healthcare products.
Angiotech Pharmaceuticals	Rincon	Angiotech pharmaceuticals is involved in the development and comercialization of drug-eluting medical devices and biomaterials.
Lantheus Medical Imaging	San Juan	Lantheus Medical Imaging is focused on development and commercialization of medical imaging products.
Sanofi-Aventis	San Juan	Sanofi-Aventis is a large pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of a wide range of drugs.
St. Jude Medical	San Juan	St. Jude Medical is focused on the development and commercialization of medical devices for use in the treatments of cardiac, neurological and chronic pain patients.
Becton Dickinson	San Lorenzo	Becton Dickinson manufactures and sells medical supplies and devices and diagnostic systems for use by healthcare professionals, research institutions, industry and the general public
Becton Dickinson	Yabucoa	Becton Dickinson manufactures and sells medical supplies and devices and diagnostic systems for use by healthcare professionals, research institutions, industry and the general public

The pharmaceutical companies exports in Puerto Rico reached US $28, 6 billion just in 2001.  So there is a lot of money in the cooking pot.

  

The following report (Video 2) gives us an idea of what is going on in Puerto Rico, the biotech Caribbean island.

                               
                                        Video 2. Puerto Rico, the biotech island.



The way it goes, Puerto Ricans will soon be the first franken people in the Caribbean region. 

In the end we will all become grey aliens 

When humans are all fucked up to the gills with large hairless heads, slanted eyes, long slender necks, small mouths, no teeth, rubbery long arms, short smooth and weak, legs, males with no penis and swollen balls, females with bumpy breasts like sacs full of potatoes and no cunt, no noses, no ears, grey or green skin, and webbed hands and feet, not until then and only then will governments declare they were wrong in supporting biotech dangerous projects of crazy scientists and boundless ambitious businessmen in an effort to play gods. 

Of course we could become extinct sooner due to some armageddon transgenetic critter that terminates humans. The end of this nasty two-legged stupid primate that tortures and pollutes the sacred Earth.

By then we all be like grey aliens. And who knows if these supposedly extraterrstrial beings are really terrestrial, in other words is us turned into aliens (Fig. 1) thanks to biotech frankensteins that screwed us up biologically speaking to racial sterility and cul-de-sac evolutionary lines and come from the future hoping to see what went wrong with our stupid and crazy civilisation. 

Figure 1. A human turned into grey due to biotech in the future? Source: Bibiana Bryson.

There´s no question that Homo sapiens is fucking insanely insapiens!

References

Fernández D. (2011). Current Situation of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Puerto Rico. Cámara de Comercio de Puerto Rico, 17 p.

Morell L. (2002). Biotechnology Research in Puerto Rico: The Synergy between Academia, Government & the Private Sector. WPI, 56 p. 

Saliceti-Piazza L., Buxeda R., Rivera E., Hormaza M. & Morell L. (2010). University-Industry partnership, an important cornerstone for Puerto Rico´s biotechnology cluster development. Lueney Morell Files, 9 p.

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