[news] Who Owns the Healing Secrets of Plants?

[Resist!ca]

In Heather Ramsay's review of Nancy Turner's new book "Plants of Haida Gwaii", she finds a curious passage which notes that the knowlege of medicine derived from some plants is "considered to be private knowledge and because of this, and the danger of misuse, uninformed people should keep away..." When she enquired about this, she was told "[i]t's because in the past everything has been taken from us. How can you ask us to give you more when you have taken our children, our culture, our land, our ocean, our trees? What have we got left?"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/23/123230/260