Dinner at the new gene café

By Bill Lambrecht

Subjects: Genetic engineering, moral and ethical aspects, Recombinant microorganisms, Genetic engineering, Genetically modified foods

Description: "Recent headlines will tell you that biotechnology companies are knocking down barriers as they race one another to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to more than 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 United States, unlike European countries and other democratic nations, does not require the labeling of modified food. Resistance to this technology is growing fast and furious - sometimes even violent." "Dinner at the New Gene Cafe lays out the battle lines of the impending collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change and the power of those who own the technology.". "Journalist Bill Lambrecht has watched the technology from its inception and traveled the world to witness its introduction. Dinner at the New Gene Cafe examines the growing international struggle over a matter that is vital to everyone on the planet: the very nature of our food, who shall shape our food supply, and who shall own it."--BOOK JACKET.