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A science reporter pens a riveting tale of the battle over genetically engineered foods and gives an inside look at a biotech food empire. 8-page photo insert.

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Biotech companies are creating designer crops with strange powers-from cholesterol-reducing soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories. They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive agriculture. But the vision has a dark side. In Lords of the Harvest, Daniel Charles tells the real story behind "Frankenstein foods"-the story you won't hear from the biotech companies or their fiercest opponents. He reveals for the first time the cutthroat scientific competition and backroom business deals that led to the first genetically engineered foods. And he exposes the secrets of campaigns on both sides of the Atlantic aimed at bringing down the biotech industry. A riveting tale of boundless ambition, political intrigue, and the quest for knowledge, Lords of the Harvest is ultimately a story of idealism and conflicting dreams about the shape of a better world.

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  • Title Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food
  • Author Dan Charles
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Softcover Ed
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, Cambridge MA
  • Publication date 2002-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780738207735 / 073820773X
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.29 x 5.55 x 0.88 in (21.06 x 14.10 x 2.24 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Agricultural biotechnology, Biotechnology industries - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001097862
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658

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  • Kliatt, 07/01/2003, Page 44

About the author

Science reporter Daniel Charles has been a technology correspondent for National Public Radio and the Washington correspondent for New Scientist. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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