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Farmageddon

Food and The Culture of Biotechnology

by (author) Brewster Kneen

Publisher
New Society Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1999
Category
Environmental Science
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780865713949
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

In this critical and timely book, food industry and biotech expert Brewster Kneen reveals what's really happening down on the farm. Readers will be unsettled to learn of the genetically engineered products that are subtly being introduced into our supermarkets, healthfood stores, and home-gardening outlets. Without presuming a scientific background of his readers, Kneen provides a multidisciplinary account of what biotechnology is and how it is affecting the world's food supply, where it came from, the direction it's heading, and how to resist it. Kneen persuasively argues that genetic engineering has been born from a western belief system in progress, industrialization, and technology.

About the author

Brewster Kneen is an internationally recognized expert on the food system. He is the author of six previous books and has written extensively on biotechnology, with articles appearing in Utne Reader, Adbusters, and The Ecologist. Together with his partner Cathleen, Kneen publishes The Ram's Horn, an international monthly magazine of food system analysis. Kneen lives in Sorrento, British Columbia.

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