I heard an interview with Claire Hope Cummings, an environmental lawyer and author of "Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds" on Public Radio a few days ago, but unfortunately, can't find the interview on the Google. Fortunately, the book is available through Powell's and Google books:
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780807085806?&PID=29924http://books.google.com/books?id=8aiTuzKYZu8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=uncertain+peril&ei=3ILBSe6sC4u6yQSGj_CnAQhttp://www.clairehopecummings.com/This sounds like it deserves a good read. You can search the Google text for any topic that interests you, and begin reading at any entry that matches your search. It's all pretty scary -- not alarmist, but in a rational, analytical way, that looks at the evidence and raises some very underisable possibilities as conclusions.
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Many people either believe that GMO foods are tested and safe or simply don't know that 80 percent of the processed foods sitting on their grocery store ...
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Twenty percent of the DNA in the human body is now patented. Many of the genes in your body are already owned by someone else, most likely a pharmaceutical ...
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Of all the crops we have ever used for food, more than 75 percent are now gone. Most were lost in the past one hundred years. The causes include industrial ...
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When Seminis got into economic trouble, it cut costs by reducing its seed inventory by 25 percent, and just like that, 2000 varieties of seed were lost. ...
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On December 10, 2001, the Supreme Court held that utility patents could be used for seeds and plants. The opinion of the Court was written by
Justice Clarence Thomas, who had been a lawyer for Monsanto. And while his former employer stood to gain enormously ...
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