Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food Is Entering Our Diet - Hardcover

Nottingham, Stephen

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9781856495776: Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food Is Entering Our Diet

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ISBN 10: 1856495779 ISBN 13: 9781856495776

Publisher: Zed Books, 1998

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Food safety scares such as salmonella in eggs or BSE in beef continue to cause public concern. But far more unnoticed is the way that genetic engineered food is entering our diet. This book looks at how this situation came about, revealing those responsible for driving genetically modified foods so rapidly on to the market. Stephen Nottingham argues that consumer pressure could decide whether these new products succeed or fail. His book gives us the facts: what these new foods are, how they are produced, why they remain unlabelled and how they are arriving on our plates unannounced. Never before has science been likely to have quite such a huge impact on our lives--after all, we are what we eat. Here is an issue every thinking person needs to apply their mind to. This is the book to help you do it.

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About the Author

Stephen Nottingham is a biologist who specializes in crop protection. He has worked in research groups in both the UK and the USA, spending a year at the United States Department of Agriculture. He now works as a freelance consultant and writer.

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Nottingham, a crop protection biologist who has done research in both the United States and Britain, writes about the genetic engineering of foods for human consumption, not only fruits and vegetables but also crop plants such as corn and soybeans that enter our diet as ingredients in processed foods. He also notes that genetically modified meat, fish, and poultry will be on the market in the near future. As Nottingham points out, the introduction of genetically altered food could have serious consequences, e.g., allergic reactions and increased resistance to certain antibiotics. Ranging widely to cover the history, science, business, international relations, risks, ethics, and consumer issues of genetic engineering, Nottingham's book will serve as an informative primer for both general readers and students. It is clearly written in a report style that is supported throughout by up-to-date facts and figures from around the world. Another very readable book on this topic, although not nearly as detailed or broad in scope, is Robin Mather's more personal and conversational A Garden of Unearthly Delights (LJ 5/1/95). Recommended for public libraries and undergraduate collections in academic libraries.?William H. Wiese, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames
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