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Article: Modified, Misled and Misguided.(Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods; Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment)(Book review)
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- August 1, 2009
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Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, Jeffrey Smith, Fairfield, Iowa: Yes! Books, 2007, 318 pages.
Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment, Peter Andree, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007,336 pages.
THAT the genetically modified supplement L-Tryptophan killed about 100 people and caused over 5000 more to become ill or disabled in the 1980s is a little known fact. Even fewer people are aware that there are no special safeguards to prevent the recurrence of such an epidemic. With facts such as these, Jeffrey Smith's new book Genetic Roulette cannot fail to ...