Changing the Nature of Nature: What You Need to Know About Genetically Engineered Food - Softcover

Teitel, Martin; Wilson, Kimberley A.; Teital, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1901250555 ISBN 13: 9781901250558

Publisher: VISION Paperbacks, 2000

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These things are happening now!
Picture a world where the French fries you eat are registered as a pesticide. Where corn plants kill butterflies. Where soya plants thrive on doses of herbicide that would kill any normal plant. Where multinational corporations own the patents on the life forms which farmers grow, and can control farmers’ actions.

That world exists – these things are happening now and they are happening in just about every developed country in the world.

Genetically Modified (GM) foods are already present on our supermarket shelves. They are often unlabelled, unwanted and largely untested. Changing the Nature of Nature addresses the following questions: What is genetic modification and how does it work? What are the risks of eating these new foodstuffs? Is there an ecological catastrophe waiting to happen as GM plants crossbreed with native plants? Will smaller and developing world farmers face economic ruin at the hands of the multinationals that control their livelihoods? Changing the Nature of Nature considers the ethical implications of this radical change in our relationship with the natural world, and questions what the future holds if GM food production continues.

Martin Teitel is Executive Director of the Council for Responsible Genetics – a non-profit organisation of concerned doctors, scientists and activists founded in 1983. Kimberley Wilson directs the Council’s programme on Commercial Biotechnology and the Environment.

Synopsis

Picture a world in which French fries are registered as a pesticide and corn plants kill butterflies. This book addresses the questions of environmental damage, health risks and negative economic consequences raised by Genetically Modified (GM) food production.

Edition details

• Publisher: VISION Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1901250555
• ISBN 13: 9781901250558
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212