The book that exposes the threat to our food supply from
genetic engineering.
* Explains the dangers of these foods in easily understood terms.
* Provides a comprehensive guide to actions you can take to safeguard
your food supply.
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 farmers' actions. That world
exists. The above events are happening, 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. The threat of these
organisms to human and environmental health has caused them to be
virtually banned in Europe, yet the U.S. government and a handful of
biotech corporations, working hand-in-hand, have actively encouraged
their use while discouraging labeling that might alert consumers to
what they are eating.
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. Taking the discussion a step further, they consider the
ethical and spiritual implications of this radical change in our
relationship to the natural world, showing what the future holds and
giving you the information you need to act on your own or to join
others in preserving the independence and integrity of our food
supply.
Martin Teitel, Ph.D., is the author of Rain Forest in Your
Kitchen and Executive Director of the Council for Responsible
Genetics, a national nonprofit organization of concerned scientists,
doctors, and activists founded in 1983 to foster public debate about
the social, ethical, and environmental implications of genetic
technology.
Kimberly Wilson directs the council's Program on Commercial
Biotechnology and the Environment.
