Dan Charles
Auteur de Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food
Œuvres de Dan Charles
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Books about current events on hot topics tend to get dated in short order. This book is no exception. However, if you want to know about the movement towards genetically modified food this book will provide needed background information. While different in scope, aim, and focus, and no less opinionated, this is a nice juxtaposition to Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle."
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- 108
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- #179,297
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- 3.5
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creating designer crops with strange powers - from cholesterol-reducing
soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories.
They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive
agriculture. But the vision has a dark side, awakening fears of profit-driven
tampering with life.
Lords of the Harvest traces the story of three young scientists who were lured
away from academia in the 1980's to work at Monsanto, a chemical company
muscling its way into biotechnology. These three scientists wanted to make
plants more productive. They wanted to end world hunger. They wanted to be on
the vanguard of a green revolution. They had no idea what was in store."
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