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Dinner at the New Gene Cafe
How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
Bill Lambrecht
10 CPEU or CE hours
Course: $88
Includes book & CE exam
CE exam only: $68
"Download on demand" available
How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
Bill Lambrecht
10 CPEU or CE hours
Course: $88
Includes book & CE exam
CE exam only: $68
"Download on demand" available
Description
Recent headlines will tell you that biotechnology companies are knocking down barriers as they race one another to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to more than 70 million acres since 1996.
More than half of American's processed grocery products-from cornflakes to granola bars to diet drinks-contain gene-altered ingredients. But the United States, unlike European countries and other democratic nations, does not require the labeling of modified food.
Resistance to this technology is growing fast and furious-sometimes even violent. Dinner at the New Gene Cafe lays out the battle lines of the impending collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change and the power of those who won the technology. Amid the furor, this precocious science is cutting applications of dangerous insecticides, and the next wave of modified crops could deliver more nutritious food-even food that wards off disease.
But before people can weigh the potential costs and benefits, this Mendelin magic is thrusting itself on the world in Orwellian fashion. Journalist Bill Lambrecht has watched the technology from its inception and traveled the world to witness its introduction. Timely and important, Dinner at the New Gene Cafe examines the growing international struggle over a matter that is vital to everyone of the planet: the very nature of our food, who shall shape our food supply, and who shall own it.
Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0312302630
ISBN-13: 9780312302634
Format: Paperback, 387pp
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pub date: 2002
Content
Foreword
Part One: The New Gene Cafe
Chapter 1: On Opening Day, Field of Dreams
Plantings One
Chapter 2: In The Beginning…
Chapter 3: A Crying Shame: When The Rules Broke Down
Plantings Two
Chapter 4: The New Gene Cafe
Chapter 5: Wings of A Butterfly: Martina Versus Margaret
Plantings Three
Part Two: On The Pharm
Chapter 6: In Illinois, An Apostle of Modified Food
Chapter 7: The Terminator
Plantings Four
Chapter 8: An Organic Cornucopia In The Garden of Glickman
Chapter 9: Ice Cream With Earl
Plantings Five
Chapter 10: The Pigs of Chez Panisse
Chapter 11: Genes of Justice
Plantings Six
Part Three: Backlash
Chapter 12: In Ireland, Beets of Wrath
Chapter 13: In France, Democracy European Style
Plantings Seven
Chapter 14: In Britain, "Absolutely Unstoppable"
Chapter 15: What Went Wrong?
Plantings Eight
Chapter 16: In Cyberspace, Technologies Converge
Chapter 17: In India, A Fatal Connection
Plantings Nine
Chapter 18: Biotech And The Paradox of Plenty
Part Four: Coming to Grips
Chapter 19: Colombia: Rising Voices in A Troubled Land
Plantings Ten
Chapter 20: The Battle of Seattle
Chapter 21: Montreal: Last Stop on The GMO Trail
Plantings Eleven
Index
Book author
Bill Lambrecht has been a Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since 1984. After a decade as the paper's national political writer, he now covers environment and resource issues. His journalism prizes include three Raymond Clapper Awards for Washington reporting, one of them in 1999 for his articles on genetic engineering around the world. Lambrecht lives with his wife Sandra Olivetti Martin, publisher of Bay Weekly newspaper, in Fairhaven , Maryland.
Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
2040 Food science, genetically modified food
8018 Environmental, agricultural and technologic influences on food systems
Recent headlines will tell you that biotechnology companies are knocking down barriers as they race one another to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to more than 70 million acres since 1996.
More than half of American's processed grocery products-from cornflakes to granola bars to diet drinks-contain gene-altered ingredients. But the United States, unlike European countries and other democratic nations, does not require the labeling of modified food.
Resistance to this technology is growing fast and furious-sometimes even violent. Dinner at the New Gene Cafe lays out the battle lines of the impending collision between a powerful but unproved technology and a gathering resistance from people worried about the safety of genetic change and the power of those who won the technology. Amid the furor, this precocious science is cutting applications of dangerous insecticides, and the next wave of modified crops could deliver more nutritious food-even food that wards off disease.
But before people can weigh the potential costs and benefits, this Mendelin magic is thrusting itself on the world in Orwellian fashion. Journalist Bill Lambrecht has watched the technology from its inception and traveled the world to witness its introduction. Timely and important, Dinner at the New Gene Cafe examines the growing international struggle over a matter that is vital to everyone of the planet: the very nature of our food, who shall shape our food supply, and who shall own it.
Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0312302630
ISBN-13: 9780312302634
Format: Paperback, 387pp
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pub date: 2002
Content
Foreword
Part One: The New Gene Cafe
Chapter 1: On Opening Day, Field of Dreams
Plantings One
Chapter 2: In The Beginning…
Chapter 3: A Crying Shame: When The Rules Broke Down
Plantings Two
Chapter 4: The New Gene Cafe
Chapter 5: Wings of A Butterfly: Martina Versus Margaret
Plantings Three
Part Two: On The Pharm
Chapter 6: In Illinois, An Apostle of Modified Food
Chapter 7: The Terminator
Plantings Four
Chapter 8: An Organic Cornucopia In The Garden of Glickman
Chapter 9: Ice Cream With Earl
Plantings Five
Chapter 10: The Pigs of Chez Panisse
Chapter 11: Genes of Justice
Plantings Six
Part Three: Backlash
Chapter 12: In Ireland, Beets of Wrath
Chapter 13: In France, Democracy European Style
Plantings Seven
Chapter 14: In Britain, "Absolutely Unstoppable"
Chapter 15: What Went Wrong?
Plantings Eight
Chapter 16: In Cyberspace, Technologies Converge
Chapter 17: In India, A Fatal Connection
Plantings Nine
Chapter 18: Biotech And The Paradox of Plenty
Part Four: Coming to Grips
Chapter 19: Colombia: Rising Voices in A Troubled Land
Plantings Ten
Chapter 20: The Battle of Seattle
Chapter 21: Montreal: Last Stop on The GMO Trail
Plantings Eleven
Index
Book author
Bill Lambrecht has been a Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch since 1984. After a decade as the paper's national political writer, he now covers environment and resource issues. His journalism prizes include three Raymond Clapper Awards for Washington reporting, one of them in 1999 for his articles on genetic engineering around the world. Lambrecht lives with his wife Sandra Olivetti Martin, publisher of Bay Weekly newspaper, in Fairhaven , Maryland.
Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
2040 Food science, genetically modified food
8018 Environmental, agricultural and technologic influences on food systems
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