Unnatural Harvest How Genetic Engineering is Altering Our Food

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Pub. Date: 2000-02-15
Publisher(s): Doubleday Canada
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Summary

Do you know what you're eating? Do you know what you're feeding your children? Chances are, the last time you visited the grocery store, you unwittingly purchased foodstuffs that have been genetically altered. That means you've become part of a grand, yet alarming experiment on food and humans, being carried out on a global scale by powerful biotech companies. And no one, including the scientists and the governments who are giving them the go-ahead, knows the long-term effects of genetically modified foods. InUnnatural Harvest,Ingeborg Boyens presents the startling implications of a new technology that is quietly revolutionizing the production of food -- our most basic component of life -- exposing the serious consequences this science poses for the biodiversity of our planet, for animal welfare, and for the health of ourselves and our children.

Author Biography

Ingeborg Boyens has worked for newspapers and magazines across the country, and currently produces documentaries on food and agricultural issues for CBC Television. She lives in Winnipeg.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1(12)
The Gene Jockeys
13(13)
From Petri Dish to Produce Aisle
26(19)
Is Bigger Better?
45(28)
Boosted Bovines: A Case Study
73(27)
An Apple a Day
100(17)
Fields of Dreams
117(26)
Animals as Commondity
143(18)
The Price of Progress?
161(14)
Old McDonald Had a Pharm
175(12)
The University Brain Drain
187(17)
Taking Care of Business
204(20)
Mad Cows and Englishmen
224(23)
The Food Activists
247(12)
The New Frontier
259(14)
Epilogue 273(9)
Reading List 282(2)
Index 284

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