With genetically modified crops we have entered uncharted
territory--where visions of the triumph of biotechnology in
agriculture vie with dire views of medical and environmental
disaster. For two years Mark L. Winston traveled this fraught
territory at home and abroad, listening to farmers, industry
spokespeople, regulators, and researchers, canvassing high-security
laboratories, environmentalist enclaves, and cyberspace, making a
thorough survey of the facts, opinions, and practices deployed by
opponents and proponents of transgenic crops.
Through his sympathetic portrayal of the passions on all sides,
Winston brings a clear, unbiased perspective to this bewildering
landscape. Traveling with Winston, we see the excitement and
curiosity that pervade laboratories developing genetically modified
crops, as well as the panic and outrage among dedicated opponents
of agricultural biotechnology; the desperation of conventional
farmers as they look to science for solutions to the problems
driving them from their farms, as well as the deeply held values of
organic farmers who dread the incursion of genetically modified
crops into their expanding enterprise. And, Winston shows us, these
contrasting attitudes transcend national borders, with troubling
counterparts and consequences in the developing world.
As he seeks a middle ground where concerns about genetic
engineering can be rationally discussed and resolved, Winston gives
us, at long last, a full and balanced view of the forces at play in
the chaotic debate over agricultural biotechnology.
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