Against the Grain Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food

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Against the Grain

Biotechnology and the Corporate Takeover of Your Food

by Marc Lappé and Britt

Paper, 175 pages, index $14.95 $11.21

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" You Are What They Want You to Eat "

Is biotechnology the world's new risk-free breadbasket? In this impassioned

report, the authors reveal that the quest for corporate profits has ridden

roughshod over questions of public health, freedom of choice and ecological

stability. From environmental issues of biodiversity and increasing use of

chemicals to health concerns about eating genetically modified food, Against

the Grain provides a comprehensive and devastating picture of biotechnology

and food.

What you eat is changing: agribusiness giant Monsanto is genetically

engineering corn, beets, rice, and soybeans to make the crops resistant to

Monsanto's own herbicide, Roundup. This means that more herbicide goes on

the food you eat. By the year 2000, Monsanto plans to have locked up 100% of

the U.S. market in soybeans to incorporate their Roundup Ready technology,

while it sprays over 26 million pounds of herbicide worldwide annually. The

human health consequences of the herbicide are still not completely

understood.

The consequences to farmers are becoming increasingly clear. Farmers must

agree not to give seeds to others, or to save any seeds from the crop for

replanting, and to use Roundup Ready herbicide--a Faustian bargain that

makes them dependent on the corporation.

No one reading this book will be left unshaken about the future of our

agriculture system--or about what they eat.

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