Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (602 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399170677 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Elle, and Self, and on Oprah and Medium, as well as on "This American Life" and various other public radio shows. She lives with her family in Maine. Caitlin Shetterly is the author of Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home and t
Reading it has opened my eyes and changed the way I buy food.”—Kate Christensen, author of The Great Man and Blue Plate Special"Sometimes people ask me why activists oppose GMO crops. Her personal odyssey pursuing the truth, colored with clear scientific and historical context, is a clarion call about the dangers of corporate control of our food supply and, importantly, what people can do about it."—Amy Goodman, host and executive producer, Democracy Now! Modified is the intriguing and compelling story of one woman’s brave pursuit of her own health—and the fa
A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. We are often completely unaware of their presence.Caitlin Shetterly discovered the importance of GMOs the hard way. An expansion of Shetterly’s viral Elle article “The Bad Seed,” Modified delves deep into the heart of the matter—from the cornfields of Nebraska to the beekeeping conventions in Brussels—to shine a light on the people, the science, and the corporations behind the food we serve ourselves and our families every day. Shortly after she learned that her son had an alarming sensitivity to GMO corn, she was told that she had the same condition, and her family’s daily existence changed forever. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary discussion about genetically modified foods.GMO products are among the most consumed and the least understood sub
"Not A Scientific Look or History of GMOs" according to LAURI CRUMLEY COATES. If you are in search of a book that explains the dangers of GMOs, this is not the book for you. This is more of a collection of the learning of the writer as she personally traveled, learned about GMOs and the companies that produce them, how family members reacted to GMOs (allergies, etc.). She does give information a. By my lights, this didn't work: the information on GMOs was too slight, & the travelogue/blog frame did not engage me Worddancer Redux For me, at least, this book fell into a gap.There are (many) books out there that discuss GMOs, pesticides, and the human health effects of them. And there are plenty of first-person travelogues that involve extensive exploration of 'flyover country' and chats with locals. This book professes to be an examination (and . Disappointing for its narrow focus and lack of scientific back up H. Laack I have been following the issue of GMOs for many years and welcomed the opportunity to review Caitlin Shetterly's book on the topic.While she is a generally engaging writer, there were however, way too many times when I felt I was reading one of those Facebook entries that starts out, "Why you should never eat these th