Pete Shanks

Pete Shanks, MA, attended Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and moved to California in the mid-1970s. He has been active in a range of local and international political movements, while mostly making his living in the publishing industry, especially on the production side; he enjoys the craft of bookmaking. Appalled by the eugenic possibilities of biotechnology, he has consulted with the Center for Genetics and Society since its earliest days. He is the author of Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed (Nation Books) and a regular contributor to Biopolitical Times.

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By Pete Shanks, Cutting Edge News | 08.25.2008

Thirty years ago the assisted reproduction industry was born. From tiny but noisy beginnings, it grew through an occasionally troubled...

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.05.2007

Californians should be allowed to know what they're eating. That's the simple reason why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should sign SB63...

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Pete Shanks, The Cutting Edge | 08.12.2007

The FDA is still considering whether to allow meat and milk from cloned animals into America's food chain, without so...

Biopolitical Times

Front page of the Natal Conference website

Last November, this blog published a piece with the title “Hipster Eugenics...

Poster for King of Clones (Netflix documentary) via Wikipedia

Back in the early years of this century, the most prominent...