d is increasing by leaps and bounds. Navigating between the conflicting images of produce aisles lined with shiny, genetically perfect fruits and vegetables and that of mutant cows running amok, food journalist Mather enters the barns and labs where bioengineering is being practiced to explain its controversial and complex possibilities.
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d is increasing by leaps and bounds. Navigating between the conflicting images of produce aisles lined with shiny, genetically perfect fruits and vegetables and that of mutant cows running amok, food journalist Mather enters the barns and labs where bioengineering is being practiced to explain its controversial and complex possibilities.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in VG white pictorial dj. First printing. Explaining the complex and controversial possibilities of bioengineering in the food industry, a guide to help the American consumer make informed choices in food buying explores the conflicting theories of food production--the near-utopian vs. the organic.
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Very Good in Very Good+ jacket. Size: 20x20x20; Genetically altered tomatoes, bovine growth hormone, what selective breeding has done to chickens, and the conditions they endure; it's all here in the now-history of our domestic food supply. Explaining the complex and controversial possibilities of bioengineering in the food industry, a guide to help the American consumer make informed choices in food buying explores the conflicting theories of food production--the near-utopian vs. the organic.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. First edition. 205pp. Pages lightly age-toned, small dampstain on bottom edge, remainder mark, about very good in a near fine dust jacket. Genetically altered tomatoes, bovine growth hormone, what selective breeding has done to chickens, and the conditions they endure; it's all here in the now-history of our domestic food supply. Ironically, the president of the chicken company lauded in the book was later in the news for letting 180, 000 chickens die of starvation when the company went bankrupt shortly after publication.