Redesigning Nature: Hard Lessons Learned--Biotechnology Food: From.... / Kurt Eichenwald.
by Eichenwald, Kurt; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 42Health. Publisher: New York Times, 2001ISSN: 1522-323X;.Subject(s): Monsanto Company | Agricultural biotechnology | Biotechnology industries | Food -- Biotechnology | Food -- Labeling | Food law and legislation | Genetically modified foods | Transgenic organismsDDC classification: 050 Summary: While the debate over biotechnology has become especially heated in the twenty-first century, the controversy began in 1970 when a researcher announced that she and her adviser "were preparing to take genes from a monkey virus and put them into a commonly used strain of bacteria, E. coli, as part of an effort to figure out the purposes of different parts of the gene." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article traces the evolution of genetically modified foods, addresses the Monsanto Company's political appeals to the Reagan and Bush (1988) administrations and explores Monsanto's efforts to appease groups that lobbied against its progress.
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Originally Published: Redesigning Nature: Hard Lessons Learned--Biotechnology Food: From..., Jan. 25, 2001; pp. A1+.
While the debate over biotechnology has become especially heated in the twenty-first century, the controversy began in 1970 when a researcher announced that she and her adviser "were preparing to take genes from a monkey virus and put them into a commonly used strain of bacteria, E. coli, as part of an effort to figure out the purposes of different parts of the gene." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article traces the evolution of genetically modified foods, addresses the Monsanto Company's political appeals to the Reagan and Bush (1988) administrations and explores Monsanto's efforts to appease groups that lobbied against its progress.
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