An edition of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth (2015)

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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An edition of Altered Genes, Twisted Truth (2015)

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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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.

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Clear River Press
Language
English
Pages
511

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Table of Contents

Foreword / by Jane Goodall
Introduction: How I reluctantly became an activist: and uncovered the crime that enabled the commercialization of genetically engineered foods
The politicization of science: and the institutionalization of illusion
The expansion of the biotech agenda: and the intensification of the politicization
Disappearing a disaster: how the facts about a deadly epidemic caused by a genetically engineered food have been consistently clouded
Genes, ingenuity, and disingenuousness: reprogramming the software of life while refashioning the facts
Illegal entry: the governmental fraud that put GE foods on the US market
Globalization of regulatory irregularity: how food safety officials in Canada, the EU, and other regions also sidestepped science and sound policy
Erosion of environmental protection: multiple risks, minimal caution
Malfunction of the American media: pliant accomplices in cover-up and deception
Methodical misrepresentation of risk: oversights, anomalies, and delinquencies
A crop of disturbing data: how the research on GE foods has failed to show they're safe, and instead confirmed they should be off the market
Overlooked lessons from computer science: the inescapable risks of altering complex information systems
Unfounded foundational assumptions: the flawed beliefs that undergird agricultural bioengineering
The devolution of scientists into spin doctors: genetic engineering's most malignant mutation
New directions and expanded horizons: abandoning genetic engineering and advancing to safe, sustainable, and sensible modes of farming
Appendix A: Extended examination of the Judge's decision in Alliance for Bio-Integrity v. Shalala
Appendix B: Two reports by other respected organizations that misrepresent the risks of GE foods

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Published in
Salt Lake City, UT

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Library of Congress
TP248.65.F66, TP248.65.F66 D78 2015

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 511 p.
Number of pages
511
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25965488M
Internet Archive
alteredgenestwis0000druk
ISBN 10
0985616903
ISBN 13
9780985616908
LCCN
2014951117
OCLC/WorldCat
905378302

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