| Description |
xi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. On Opening Day, Fields of Dreams -- 2. In the Beginning ... -- 3. A CRY9 Shame: When the Rules Broke Down -- 4. The New Gene Cafe -- 5. Wings of a Butterfly: Martina versus Margaret -- 6. In Illinois, an Apostle of Modified Food -- 7. The Terminator -- 8. An Organic Cornucopia in the Garden of Glickman -- 9. Ice Cream with Earl -- 10. The Pigs of Chez Panisse -- 11. Genes of the Jungle -- 12. In Ireland, Beets of Wrath -- 13. In France, Democracy European Style -- 14. In Britain, "Absolutely Unstoppable" -- 15. What Went Wrong? -- 16. In Cyberspace, Technologies Converge -- 17. In India, a Fatal Connection -- 18. Biotech and the Paradox of Plenty -- 19. Colombia: Rising Voices in a Troubled Land -- 20. The Battle of Seattle -- 21. Montreal: Last Stop on the GMO Trail |
| Summary |
"Recent headlines will tell you that biotechnology companies are knocking down barriers as they race one another 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 more than 70 million acres since 1996. More than half of America's processed grocery products - from cornflakes to granola bars to diet drinks - contain gene-altered ingredients. But the United States, unlike European countries and other democratic nations, does not require the labeling of modified food. Resistance to this technology is growing fast and furious - sometimes even violent." "Dinner at the New Gene Cafe 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 and the power of those who own the technology." |
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"Journalist Bill Lambrecht has watched the technology from its inception and traveled the world to witness its introduction. Dinner at the New Gene Cafe examines the growing international struggle over a matter that is vital to everyone on the planet: the very nature of our food, who shall shape our food supply, and who shall own it."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Genetically modified foods.
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| ISBN |
0312302630 paperback |
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0312265751 hardback |
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