New genetic technologies comprise an even larger part of globalisation in that they are not only proposed for use in agriculture and food industries, but in the pharmaceutical industries and in a wide range of human medical applications. The human genome project, which has recently been completed, offers greater control over human health and reproduction in essence it offers a new form of information which can be used to re-engineer human beings. Dolly is not a genetically engineered animal, but she was made through a technique that will be used to put human genes into animals. This is done in order to get sheep to produce human proteins in their milk, which can then be used to treat diseases such as diabetes or cystic fibrosis. Supporters of cloning argue it is an important source of new medical benefits.
Opponents argue it is an example of biotechnology pushing ahead too fast.
What is clear is that both information technology and biotechnology are key factors in the global economy, and are not just economic but cultural forces as well. Columbus set a precedent when he treated the license to conquer non-European peoples as a natural right of European men. It seems that the Western powers are still driven by the colonising impulse to discover, conquer, own, and possess everything, every society, every culture. In reality, free trade has vastly expanded the freedom and powers of transnational corporations to trade and invest in most countries in the world, while significantly reducing the powers of national governments in order to restrict their operations. Transnational corporate freedom is based on the destruction of citizen s freedom everywhere, and the little remnants of independence the Third World had after the last two waves of colonization.