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• Publicly funded manufacturing infrastructure,
not just biotech venture capital.
• Ethical AI platforms that optimize yield without
creating new forms of corporate surveillance.

This is not just a policy agenda. It’s a moral imperative.

We’ve Seen This Before: Insulin, Vaccines, and
Public Betrayal

We know what happens when we don’t act.

• Insulin, discovered a century ago as a gift to
humanity, now costs hundreds per vial in the U.S.—
pricing people out of a drug that should be
ubiquitous.
• COVID vaccines, developed in record time with
public money, became billion-dollar franchises for
private gain—while much of the Global South
waited months or years for supply.

These failures weren’t scientific.
They were ethical failures disguised as market outcomes.

We can’t afford to repeat them.

A Moral Imperative

Edible biologics are a technological breakthrough.
But if they are distributed using the rules of the past, their
potential will be wasted—not by science, but by greed.

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