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Article: Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare? The Brave New World of Science and Business.(Review)
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- Foreign Policy
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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by Mae-Wan Ho
277 pages, Bath: Gateway Books, 1998 (Distributed in the United States by Access Publishers Network)
Reviewed by Charles C. Mann
Most people, I suspect, regard genetic engineering as something that will happen tomorrow. They are wrong. Biotechnology is here today. Indeed, it may be about to start a trade war. In the United States, biotech - especially agricultural biotech, by far the most economically important branch - is relatively uncontroversial. More than 4,600 genetic modifications of organisms have been field tested, including 9 modifications of carrots, 11 of apples, and scores of genetically modified tomatoes. Five years ...