Roundup®
vaccination center for plants, animals and human beings
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As in the case of the herbularius, the medicinal herb garden of the Middle Ages, or 19th-century urban parks designed to promote health, the focus here is the physiological link between man and plants : a useful, necessary, vital link, a relationship involving food, medicine and energy, but one that can just as easily prove allergic or toxic.
To propose a center for vaccination with Roundup ®, the most widely sold complete defoliant in the world, is to be aware of the broader interaction that has come to exist between plants and man. This evolution, brought about by biotechnology and the agri-foodstuffs industry, has eliminated the interspecies barrier, permitting genetic hybridization between plants and animals and throwing food chains into disorder. Transits between the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms have become commonplace, via prions, via genes, and it is no longer possible to assert that a given substance or disease peculiar to one natural kingdom will not one day become active in another.
Our garden is a place for the transmission and dissemination of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup ®, for purposes of public health prevention and ecological precaution. Two methods are used : first, a program of homeopathic vaccination for animals and human beings, which has been submitted for approval to the Federal Office of Public Health in Bern. The purpose of this program is to sensitize or even enrich the genetic heritage in people and animals for resisting the presence of Roundup ® in food chains. In addition, a field of transgenic corn, Roundup Ready ® Corn, has been planted in the city of Lausanne so that other plant species can be freely pollinated with the Roundup Ready ® gene CP4EP SPS DNA present in this corn. This genetic sequence, which is the property of Monsanto Corp., makes plants resistant to this defoliant. The purpose of this program for disseminating this new gene into the environment is to make possible genetic hybridizations with any vegetable, weed or apartment plant, rendering them, in turn, resistant to Roundup ®, and thus helping to safeguard the future of biodiversity.
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Roundup®
Installed at :
- Lausanne Jardins [Lausanne Gardens] 2000, Lausanne, Switzerland,
June 17 to October 17, 2000
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Décosterd & Rahm, associés
Collaboration : Jérôme Jacqmin