Dinner at the New Gene Café: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of FoodThe definitive book on the rise of biotechnology and genetic modification in the world's food supply, a growing topic of fierce international debate. |
Contents
IN THE BEGINNING | 18 |
A CRY9 SHAME WHEN THE RULES BROKE DOWN | 40 |
THE NEW GENE CAFÉ | 55 |
WINGS OF A BUTTERFLY MARTINA VERSUS MARGARET | 74 |
IN ILLINOIS AN APOSTLE OF MODIFIED FOOD | 92 |
THE TERMINATOR | 103 |
AN ORGANIC CORNUCOPIA IN THE GARDEN OF GLICKMAN | 124 |
ICE CREAM WITH EARL | 137 |
IN BRITAIN ABSOLUTELY UNSTOPPABLE | 213 |
WHAT WENT WRONG? | 240 |
CYBERSPACE TECHNOLOGIES CONVERGE | 260 |
IN INDIA A FATAL CONNECTION | 268 |
BIOTECH AND THE PARADOX OF PLENTY | 288 |
COLOMBIA RISING VOICES IN A TROUBLED LAND | 310 |
THE BATTLE OF SEATTLE | 326 |
MONTREAL LAST STOP ON THE GMO TRAIL | 343 |
THE PIGS OF CHEZ PANISSE | 144 |
GENES OF THE JUNGLE | 153 |
IN IRELAND BEETS OF WRATH | 176 |
IN FRANCE DEMOCRACY EUROPEAN STYLE | 199 |
Afterword | 370 |
Index | 374 |