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Author Charles, Daniel.

Title Lords of the harvest : biotech, big money, and the future of food / Daniel Charles.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  664.024 CHA    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  664.024 CHARLES    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  631.5233 CH    Check Shelf
Description xix, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- First transformation -- Marching on Washington -- Everything was worth doing -- First useful gene : bacillus thuringiensis and its many inventors -- Gifts of God -- Genes that love poisons -- Triumphs of tinkering -- Forces in opposition -- Seed wars -- Tomato that ate calgene -- Tremors of anticipation -- Summers of triumph, summers of discord -- Power plays -- Backlash -- Wheels come off -- Deluge -- Global claims -- Perched on a precipice -- Infinite horizons -- Epilogue.
Note Includes index.
Subject Biotechnology industries -- United States.
Food industry and trade -- United States.
Genetically modified foods -- Government policy -- United States.
ISBN 0738202916
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