Hey, you're listening to Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host, Whitney Webb. On September 12, Joe Biden announced an executive order on advancing biotechnology and bio-manufacturing innovation for a sustainable, safe, and secure American bioeconomy. Among other things, this executive order stated that, quote, we need to develop genetic engineering technologies and

techniques to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way

in which we write software and program computers. Unlock the power of biological data, including

through computing tools and artificial intelligence, and advance the

science of scale up production while reducing the obstacles for commercialization so that innovative

technologies and products can reach markets faster, end quote. In other words, this policy calls for

less regulation and testing for, quote, unquote, innovative healthcare products based on new unproven technologies, particularly gene editing and gene therapy, and supercharging the effort to make AI central to the American healthcare system.

But there's actually a lot more going on in this executive order.

So this executive order, perhaps unsurprisingly, got little play in mainstream media and only slightly more an independent media, where many of those who did cover it claimed it would usher in an age of transhumanist technologies.

Is such alarm warranted? And what is this executive order likely to mean for the average American?

And what exactly is the bioeconomy, who are the major players in it, and who is it meant to benefit?

Joining me to discuss this and more today is Derek Browse.

Derek is a journalist, activist, and speaker who writes for The Last American Vagabond, as well as his own site, The Conscious Resistance.

His most recent article for TLAV covers Biden's executive order in one of the best, and one of the only articles out there on the topic and shows how this edict is just one part of a much larger and broader agenda.

So thanks for joining me today, Derek. Welcome back to Unlimited Hangout.

Yeah, thank you for having me back with you.

My pleasure. So let's start by tackling some of the vocabulary in this executive order.

I don't think most people know what bioeconomy

or even biomeufacturing exactly means. So how does the executive order define these terms,

do you agree with those definitions? And what do you think this means in terms of the economic

impact it's likely to have for Americans? Sure. So the executive order is titled Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing for the

sustainable, safe, and secure American bioeconomy.

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