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Product Details: [BK218] - Genetically Engineered Food |
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BK218
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Genetically Engineered Food
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$16.95
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0.75 lbs
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DISCONTINUED! PLEASE SEE OUR ADVERTISER, NELSON'S BOOKS, IN OUR DIRECTORY LISTING FROM THE KNOWLEDGE CATEGORY!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Picture a world where the french fries you eat are registered as a pesticide. Where corn plants kill monarch butterflies. Where soy plants thrive on doses of herbicide that would kill any normal plant. Where multinational corporations own the life forms that farmers grow and legally control the farmer's actions.
That world exists. The above events are happening now, and they are happening to us all. Genetically engineered foods - plants whose genetic structures are altered by scientists in ways that could never occur in nature - are already present in most of the products you buy in supermarkets, unlabeled, unwanted, and largely untested.
Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the many ramifications of this dangerous science. Authors Martin Teitel and Kimberly Wilson explain what genetic engineering is and how it works, then explore the health risks involved with eating newly created lifeforms. They address the ecological catastrophe that could result from these modified plants crossing with wild species and escaping human control altogether, as well as the economic devastation that may befall small farmers who find themselves at the mercy of megacorporations for their livelihood. Take the discussion a step further, they consider the ethical and spiritual implications of this radical change in our relationship to the natural world, and show what the future holds if we don't act now to implement a moratorium on the production of genetically engineered food.
Martin Teitel, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics, a national non-profit organization of concerned scientists, doctors and activists founded in 1983 to foster public debate about the social, ethical, health, economic, and environmental implications of genetic technology. Kimberly A. Wilson directs the council's Program on Commercial Biotechnology and the Environment.
"For consumers who wish to understand why their food has been genetically altered -- without their consent, with virtually no testing, and without labeling -- Teitel and Wilson's timely book is essential reading. It tells us who the winners and losers are in this global experiment with the world's food supply." Seldon Krimsky, Professor, Tufts University, author of Agriculture Biotechnology and the Environment.
Softbound. 175 pages.
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