²⁰ BE NOT AMONG WINEBIBBERS; among riotous eaters of flesh: ²¹ For THE DRUNKARD AND THE GLUTTON SHALL COME TO POVERTY: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. ²² Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. ²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. ²⁴ The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. ²⁵ Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice. ²⁶ My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways. ²⁷ For A WHORE IS A DEEP DITCH; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. ²⁸ SHE ALSO LIETH IN WAIT AS FOR A PREY, AND INCREASETH THE TRANSGRESSORS AMONG MEN. ²⁹ Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? WHO HATH REDNESS OF EYES? ³⁰ THEY THAT TARRY LONG AT THE WINE; they that go to seek mixed wine. ³¹ Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. ³² At the last IT BITETH LIKE A SERPENT, and stingeth like an adder. ³³ Thine eyes shall behold STRANGE WOMEN, and THINE HEART SHALL UTTER PERVERSE THINGS. ³⁴ Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. ³⁵ THEY HAVE STRICKEN ME, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; THEY HAVE BEATEN ME, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I WILL SEEK IT YET AGAIN.

–PROVERBS 23:20-35 (KJV)–

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Rio Summit, ’92
Street people kidnapped
Hid from view
“To save the earth”
Our rulers met
Some had other
Secret plans

No, no, no, no

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Say what?

Strip-mine the Amazon
Of cells of life itself
Gold rush for genes is on
Natives get nothing

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is Godzilla

Godzilla, rargh!

Mutations cooked in labs
Money-mad experiments
New food and medicine?
New germs and accidents!
Like Cubatão
“World’s most polluted town”
Air melts your face
Deformed children all around

Biotechnology
Ain’t what’s so bad
Like all technology
It’s in the wrong hands
Cut-throat corporations
When lots of people die
From what they’ve made

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is AIDS

Stop!

–Sepultura, “Biotech Is Godzilla”–

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John Flavel, Binge Drinking (Banner of Truth, 2008).

Dr. John R. Rice, The Double Curse of Booze (SLP, 1960).