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Unnatural Harvest: How Genetic Engineering Is Altering Our Food Paperback - 2000

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Author: Boyens, Ingeborg
ISBN: 9780385257893

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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.

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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.
In "Unnatural 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.

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Title Unnatural Harvest: How Genetic Engineering Is Altering Our Food
Author Ingeborg Boyens
Binding Paperback
Edition First Paperback
Pages 296
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Doubleday Canada, U.S.A.
Date February 15, 2000
ISBN 9780385257893 / 0385257899
Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
Dimensions 8.32 x 5.6 x 0.81 in (21.13 x 14.22 x 2.06 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Genetically modified foods, Crops - Genetic engineering
Dewey Decimal Code 363.192

Media reviews

"An important book for anyone who cares about what they eat and the future of the planet." -- Quill & Quire

"An excellent introduction to the use of biotechnology, or genetic engineering, in food production ... Boyens manages always to present the material deftly and compellingly." -- The Georgia Straight

About the author

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.