Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket for the World?

by Gregory E. Pence

Absolutely everyone must eat. People decide several times a day what to eat and what not to eat, and the personal issue about genetically modified food is whether it is safe to eat―not only in the moment, but over the long-run. Designer Food addresses these and other pressing questions surrounding the ethics of genetically modified food in the premier, single authored commentary on the subject. Beginning with a thorough chronicling of GM Food's rise to fame first in England and later in North America, the book considers such issues as the symbolic importance of food, world hunger, food terrorism and sabatoge, and democratic public participation in the growing debate surrounding genetically modified food.

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published December 18, 2001

Reviews

[Helie · Rating 2 out of 5]

While I enjoyed the information and history about BSE/Mad cow disease, I found the arguments about GM food very simple-minded and unimpressive. Most of them were predicated on the idea that people eat meat grown in terrible conditions, therefore eating crops with questionable origins should be no problem.

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting, sometimes strident, sometimes dry