Regine Debatty, the force behind We Make Money Not Art, guestblogs on Worldchanging about Biopiracy. Although it is unfortunately not ‘new news’ that western corporations patent the biological material of the developing world (plants, food, human tissues, drugs), Debatty identifies a growing trend in art and literature towards exposing this modern day colonialism to which much of the West has turned a blind eye.

WorldChanging: Biopiracy in Art and Literature