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If we though price gauging with oil was a problem, how about our food?<BR>
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Beverley<BR>
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--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? <BR>
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For more info: http://www.buzzflash.com/store/reviews/1229<BR>
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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.<BR>
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