Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food - Softcover

Kimbrell, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932771190 ISBN 13: 9781932771190

Publisher: Earth Aware Editions, 2007

Synopsis

Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food explains the issues and tells us what we know and don't know about these foods. Most importantly, it provides a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute guide on the very real dangers these altered foods present to our health, the environment, and farm communities.

In this book, Andrew Kimbrell and the Center for Food Safety, one of the nation's leading independent consumer watchdog organizations, also provides you with all the necessary tools to understand this critical food issue, to choose to avoid GE foods and to become an active participant in the fight for an organic, environmentally sustainable and socially just food future.

About this title

From the Publisher:

* A how-to primer about the health risks of genetically engineered food, organic options, and how to fight the corporate agro-industrial takeover of the food we eat.

* A comprehensive reference guide to the hidden facts of genetically modified food.

* Deluxe hardcover edition includes Nell Newman’s Shopper’s Guide DVD.

About the Author:

Andrew Kimbrell is founder and executive director of the Center for Food Safety and the International Center for Technology Assessment. Author of The Human Body Shop and The Masculine Mystique, and editor of Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture, Andrew has been featured on radio and television programs across the country, including the Today Show, The Early Show, Crossfire, and Good Morning America. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Harper’s. In 1994, the Utne Reader named Kimbrell as one of the world’s leading 100 visionaries, and in 2007 was named one of the 50 people most likely to save the planet by The Guardian-UK. He lives in Washington, DC.

Nell Newman is co-founder and president of Newman’s Own Organics. The daughter of actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Nell had an early introduction to natural foods at their rural Connecticut home, where the family had a garden and raised chickens. She lives in Central Coast, CA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1932771190
• ISBN 13: 9781932771190
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152