Altered genes, twisted truth : how the venture to genetically engineer our food has subverted science, corrupted government, and systematically deceived the public

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Altered genes, twisted truth : how the venture to genetically engineer our food has subverted science, corrupted government, and systematically deceived the public

Title remainder

how the venture to genetically engineer our food has subverted science, corrupted government, and systematically deceived the public

Statement of responsibility

Steven M. Druker

Creator

• Druker, Steven M

Author

• Druker, Steven M

Subject

• Genetic engineering -- Risk assessment
• Genetic engineering -- Government policy
• Truthfulness and falsehood
• trueGenetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Nonfiction
• Genetic engineering -- Government policy
• Political corruption
• truePolitical corruption
• Genetic engineering -- Risk assessment
• trueTruthfulness and falsehood

Genre

• Nonfiction

Language

eng

Summary

• This book uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its products and get them onto our dinner plates. Altered Genes, Twisted Truth provides a graphic account of how this elaborate fraud was crafted and how it not only deceived the general public, but Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and a host of other astute and influential individuals as well. The book also exposes how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was induced to become a key accomplice -- and how it has broken the law and repeatedly lied in order to usher genetically engineered foods onto the market without the safety testing that's required by federal statute. As a result, for fifteen years America's families have been regularly ingesting a group of novel products that the FDA's own scientific staff had previously determined to be unduly hazardous to human health. By the time this gripping story comes to a close, it will be clear that the degradation of science it documents has not only been unsavory but unprecedented -- and that in no other instance have so many scientists so seriously subverted the standards they were trained to uphold, misled so many people, and imposed such magnitude of risk on both human health and the health of the environment. - Publisher
• Druker discusses how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its products--and get them onto our dinner plates

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

660.6/5

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

TP248.6

LC item number

.D78 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography