[CitizensTruth] New book - Uncertain Peril details danger to food supply from patented seeds

[Walterb306 at cs.com]

All,

If we though price gauging with oil was a problem, how about our food?

Beverley


--While We Worry About Oil, Is the Food Supply Chain Being Stolen Through the 
Patenting of Genetically Modified Seeds? Will Monsanto Control Our Basic Food 
Supply? 

For more info:  http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/1229


Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds (Paperback) 
Claire Hope Cummings BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt) The most basic needs of 
humans -- we learn in grade school -- are food, clothing and shelter. Despite the 
current national hysteria over oil, it's the privatization of basic food 
sources -- seeds and water -- that should worry us the most. A lot of it is 
happening under the radar. Seeds -- with Monsanto being one of the biggest culprits 
-- are rapidly becoming patented due to genetic modification. And patented 
seeds are being aggressively marketed by corporations to squeeze open market seeds 
out of the market place for many essential fruits and vegetables. More 
menacing is that courts are granting absurd patent right extensions to GM seed 
ownership, to the point that farmers are responsible for NOT harvesting any GM 
crops whose seeds might have been blown onto their fields! This book is a fair, 
balanced look at the threat that GM products pose to us in terms of industry 
control of the food supply chain and GM seeds. Grist.com says of the book: "In 
her new book, Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds, 
Claire Hope Cummings marches through the middle of these often reflexive con and 
pro positions in search of a more nuanced big-picture view. An environmental 
lawyer for 20 years, including four spent with the USDA, Cummings now reports 
regularly on agriculture and the environment.

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