Dinner at the new gene cafe, how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live, and the global politics of food, Bill Lambrecht
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Dinner at the new gene cafe, how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live, and the global politics of food, Bill Lambrecht
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eng
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Dinner at the new gene cafe
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46937528
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Bill Lambrecht
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how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live, and the global politics of food
Summary
Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to 70 million acres since 1996. More than half of America's processed grocery products--from cornflakes and granola bars to diet drinks--contain genetically altered ingredients. But the U.S., unlike other democratic nations overseas, does not require labeling of modified food. Journalist Bill Lambrecht has covered these issues extensively from the beginning. In this book, he lays out the battle lines of the impending collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change
Table Of Contents
Foreword -- Part one : New gene cafe -- On opening day, fields of dreams ; Plantings one ; In the beginning ... ; Cry9 shame : when the rules broke down ; Plantings two ; New gene cafe ; Wings of a butterfly : Martina versus Margaret ; Plantings three -- Part two : On the pharm -- In Illinois, an apostle of modified food ; Terminator ; Plantings four ; Organic cornucopia in the garden of Glickman ; Ice cream with Earl ; Plantings five ; Pigs of Chez Panisse ; Genes of the jungle ; Plantings six -- Part three : Backlash -- In Ireland, beets of wrath ; In France, democracy European style ; Plantings seven ; In Britain, absolutely unstoppable ; What went wrong? ; Plantings eight ; In cyberspace, technologies converge ; In India, a fatal connection ; Plantings nine ; Biotech and the paradox of plenty -- Part four : Coming to grips -- Colombia : rising voices in a troubled land ; Plantings ten ; Battle of Seattle ; Montreal : last stop on the GMO trail ; Plantings eleven
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