Product Description

This is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to know more about GM crops - what they are, how many countries already use them, and why they're a problem. Written by a leading campaigner for GM Watch, one of the world's leading anti-GM lobbying groups, this short and accurate account reveals the huge issues that are at stake. Genetically modified food has been headline news for a few years now: but it's difficult to know how far the GM revolution has affected our lives. Is the food on our shelves really GM-free? How much influence and power do food corporations wield over our lives? Andy Rees provides the answers. He shows that, while GM corporations have met with resistance in Europe, their hold on the American market is already strong. They're also expanding operations in less-regulated countries in Africa, Asia and the former Soviet bloc. Britain is supposedly GM-free, but we continue to import over 100 million tonnes of GM animal feed every year. The US has launched a legal suit in an attempt to force the European market open to GM foods. What does the future hold? This brilliantly readable book tells us all what we need to know.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #869322 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Dr Arpad Pusztai, the world's leading expert on plant lectins
'Great for all public-spirited citizens who want to be informed about what is going on. ... Highly recommended!'

Jeffrey M. Smith, international best-selling author, Seeds of Deception
'Rees unmasks the biotech industry's horrific tactics and the devastation that their GM crops will inflict.'

About the Author
Andy Rees is the author of The Pocket Green Book: The Environmental Crisis in a Nutshell (Zed, 1991) and former editor of GM Watch's Weekly Watch.

Customer Reviews

Wake Up World! Stop Genetically Modified Food NOW!!!!
What a brilliant book, it tells the FACTS about GM Food... Big corporations are keeping the general public in the dark about these important issues around GM Food... The world is being irreparably changed at the finest genetic level! Upsetting the delicate balance of nature which has taken millions of years to get us to this point in time, just to have a few prize plonkers think that they can do it better!! The lengths people go to due to greed, selfishness, plain stupidity.. What are we doing to mother nature?!!! How yet again Blair follows in US footsteps.. Big business out of control and leading us further up the creek without a paddle.
This is a well researched book with good strong evidence about why we should ALL be very concerned!!
It's good that Organic food is on the increase, people are realising the importance of not tampering with what they eat by not adding preservatives and pesticides etc This is good but not enough - stopping GM food is not just for our health but our childrens children and the entire planets species! This is no joke!
You may be thinking that you don't eat GM Food but... GM grain might be what the cows are eating that make the milk you drink, they slip it in anywhere you turn a blind eye for a second.
If you know nothing about the GM debate you need to get this book it's important, don't be in the dark, your planet needs help!

Accessible, readable, well-referenced
This is a very readable guide to GM food, written in an accessible style but without compromising on factual accuracy or scientific references. If you only have a few minutes a day to read, it's easy to dip into. I highly recommend it for use in schools and colleges as well as for the interested general public. In my view, it's the best available overview of the subject.
Claire Robinson, co-editor, GMWatch.org