Dinner at the new gene cafe : how genetic engineering is changing what we eat, how we live, and the global politics of food

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.

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 gro...

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Main Author: Lambrecht, Bill
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, ©2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Genetically modified foods.
Online Access:Contributor biographical information
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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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