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Genetic Engineering

The Politics of Genetic Engineering

Shattering: Food, Politics and the Loss of Genetic Diversity

Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney, Arizona, 1990

Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply

Vandana Shiva, South End, 1999

Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge

Vandana Shiva , South End, 1997

Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating

Jeffrey Smith, Yes! Books, 2003, Paperback

Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food

Bill Lambrecht, St. Martin's Press, 2002, Paperback. Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to 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 U.S., unlike Europe and other democratic nations, does not require labeling of modified food. Dinner at the New Gene Cafe lays out the battle lines of the collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change.

Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism, by Nestle, Marion, University of California Press, 2004, Paperback

The critically acclaimed author of "Food Politics" argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures--it involves politics.

Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food

Daniel Charles, Perseus Books, September 2002, Paperback, pages

Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering

Tokar, Brian, Zed Books Ltd., 2001, Paperback

Against the Grain: Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food

Mark Lappé and Britt Bailey, Common Courage, 1998

Biotech Century, The: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World

Jeremy Rifkin, Tarcher/Putnam, 1998

Gene Wars: The Politics of Biotechnology

Kristin Dawkins, Seven Stories, 1997

Books on Genes and Genetics

Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth, and Humans

Michael W. Fox, Lyons Press, 1999, $24.95

The Century of the Gene

Evelyn Fox Keller, Harvard University Press, 2002, Paperback. "Provides a powerful, profound analysis of the limits of the gene as an explanatory concept. She argues convincingly for a new language, for new concepts that will enable us to deal with the real complexity of biological organization. This is a critically important book, to be very widely read." —Dorothy Nelkin, New York University.

The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment, by Lewontin, Richard C
Harvard University Press, 2001, Paperback

Genetics and the Manipulation of Life: The Forgotten Factor of Context

Craig Holdrege, Lindisfarne, 1996

Exploding the Gene Myth

Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald, Beacon, 1993

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

Evelyn Fox Keller, W.H. Freeman, 1983

Language of the Genes

Steve Jones, Anchor, 1995

Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering

Susan Aldridge, Cambridge, 1998

Books on the Risks of Genetic Engineering

Biotechnology Unzipped

Eric Grace, Joseph Henry, 1997

Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare?

Mae-Wan Ho, Continuum, 2000

The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops

Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon, MIT, 1996

Books on Genetically Engineered Food

Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food is Entering our Diet

Stephen Nottingham, Zed, 1998

Farmageddon: Food and the Culture of Biotechnology

Brewster Kneen, New Society, 1999

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser, HarperPerenniel, 2002

Genetic Engineering, Food and our Environment

Luke Anderson, Chelsea Green, 1999

Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers

Ronnie Cummins, Marlowe, 2000

Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature

Martin Teitel and Kimberly Wilson. Forward Ralph Nader, Park Street, 1999

Genetically Engineered Foods: Are They Safe? You Decide

Laura and Robin Ticciati, Ph.D., Keats, 1998

Books on the Genetic Engineering of Humans and Other Animals

Human Body Shop, The: The Cloning, Engineering and Marketing of Life

Andrew Kimbrell, Regnery, 1998

Perfect Baby: A Pragmatic Approach to Genetics

Glenn McGee, Rowman & Littlefield, 1997

Books on the Ethics of Genetic Engineering

Genethics: The Clash Between the New Genetics and Human Values

David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson, Harvard, 1995

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