The Resource Lords of the harvest : biotech, big money, and the future of food, Daniel Charles
Lords of the harvest : biotech, big money, and the future of food, Daniel Charles
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- Summary
- "The food we eat is being transformed before our eyes. Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers - from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive agriculture. But the vision has a dark side, awakening fears of profit-driven tampering with life." "In Lords of the Harvest, Daniel Charles tells the real story behind "Frankenstein foods"--The one you won't hear from the biotech companies or their fiercest opponents. He reveals for the first time the cutthroat scientific competition and backroom business deals that led to the first genetically engineered foods: Flavr Savr tomatoes, Roundup Ready soybeans, and insect-poisoning corn and cotton. And he exposes the secrets of campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic aimed at bringing down the biotech industry. It's a tale of scientific, business, and political intrigue, unfolded in stunning detail."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xix, 348 p.
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- First transformation
- Marching on Washington
- Everything was worth doing
- First useful gene : bacillus thuringiensis and its many inventors
- Gifts of God
- Genes that love poisons
- Triumphs of tinkering
- Forces in opposition
- Seed wars
- Tomato that ate calgene
- Tremors of anticipation
- Summers of triumph, summers of discord
- Power plays
- Backlash
- Wheels come off
- Deluge
- Global claims
- Perched on a precipice
- Infinite horizons
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780738202914
- Label
- Lords of the harvest : biotech, big money, and the future of food
- Title
- Lords of the harvest
- Title remainder
- biotech, big money, and the future of food
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Charles
- Subject
-
- Agriculture -- Innovations -- États-Unis
- Aliments -- Biotechnologie
- Aliments transgéniques -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis
- Aliments transgéniques -- États-Unis
- Bio-industries -- États-Unis
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie agricole
- Biotechnology
- Biotechnology industries
- Biotechnology industry -- United States
- Cultures agricoles
- Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Ethik
- Agriculture
- Food industry and trade
- Food industry and trade -- United States
- Genetic Engineering
- Genetically modified foods -- Government policy
- Genetically modified foods -- Government policy -- United States
- Lebensmittel
- Monsanto
- Organismes génétiquement modifiés
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Public Policy
- Sécurité alimentaire
- Technikbewertung
- United States
- Voedselvoorziening
- Zaad (plantkunde)
- Food Technology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The food we eat is being transformed before our eyes. Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers - from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive agriculture. But the vision has a dark side, awakening fears of profit-driven tampering with life." "In Lords of the Harvest, Daniel Charles tells the real story behind "Frankenstein foods"--The one you won't hear from the biotech companies or their fiercest opponents. He reveals for the first time the cutthroat scientific competition and backroom business deals that led to the first genetically engineered foods: Flavr Savr tomatoes, Roundup Ready soybeans, and insect-poisoning corn and cotton. And he exposes the secrets of campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic aimed at bringing down the biotech industry. It's a tale of scientific, business, and political intrigue, unfolded in stunning detail."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Charles, Daniel
- Dewey number
- 664.024
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HD9999.B443
- LC item number
- U6176 2001
- Literary form
- non fiction
- NAL call number
- TP248.65.F66
- NAL item number
- C48 2001
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Biotechnology industry
- Food industry and trade
- Genetically modified foods
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie agricole
- Aliments
- Aliments transgéniques
- Aliments transgéniques
- Agriculture
- Bio-industries
- Organismes génétiquement modifiés
- Biotechnologie
- Cultures agricoles
- Sécurité alimentaire
- Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Biotechnologie
- Zaad (plantkunde)
- Monsanto
- Voedselvoorziening
- Biotechnologie
- Ethik
- Lebensmittel
- Technikbewertung
- Biotechnology industries
- Food industry and trade
- Genetically modified foods
- United States
- Biotechnology
- Genetic Engineering
- Agriculture
- Food Technology
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Public Policy
- Label
- Lords of the harvest : biotech, big money, and the future of food, Daniel Charles
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- First transformation -- Marching on Washington -- Everything was worth doing -- First useful gene : bacillus thuringiensis and its many inventors -- Gifts of God -- Genes that love poisons -- Triumphs of tinkering -- Forces in opposition -- Seed wars -- Tomato that ate calgene -- Tremors of anticipation -- Summers of triumph, summers of discord -- Power plays -- Backlash -- Wheels come off -- Deluge -- Global claims -- Perched on a precipice -- Infinite horizons -- Epilogue
- Control code
- ocm48071336
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xix, 348 p.
- Isbn
- 9780738202914
- Lccn
- 2001097862
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) o48071336
- (OCoLC)48071336
- Label
- Lords of the harvest : biotech, big money, and the future of food, Daniel Charles
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- First transformation -- Marching on Washington -- Everything was worth doing -- First useful gene : bacillus thuringiensis and its many inventors -- Gifts of God -- Genes that love poisons -- Triumphs of tinkering -- Forces in opposition -- Seed wars -- Tomato that ate calgene -- Tremors of anticipation -- Summers of triumph, summers of discord -- Power plays -- Backlash -- Wheels come off -- Deluge -- Global claims -- Perched on a precipice -- Infinite horizons -- Epilogue
- Control code
- ocm48071336
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xix, 348 p.
- Isbn
- 9780738202914
- Lccn
- 2001097862
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o48071336
- (OCoLC)48071336
Subject
- Agriculture -- Innovations -- États-Unis
- Aliments -- Biotechnologie
- Aliments transgéniques -- Politique gouvernementale -- États-Unis
- Aliments transgéniques -- États-Unis
- Bio-industries -- États-Unis
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie
- Biotechnologie agricole
- Biotechnology
- Biotechnology industries
- Biotechnology industry -- United States
- Cultures agricoles
- Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Ethik
- Agriculture
- Food industry and trade
- Food industry and trade -- United States
- Genetic Engineering
- Genetically modified foods -- Government policy
- Genetically modified foods -- Government policy -- United States
- Lebensmittel
- Monsanto
- Organismes génétiquement modifiés
- Plants, Genetically Modified
- Public Policy
- Sécurité alimentaire
- Technikbewertung
- United States
- Voedselvoorziening
- Zaad (plantkunde)
- Food Technology
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