Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, big money, and the future of food
by Daniel Charles, Perseus, $27, ISBN 0738202916
GENETICALLY modified food has generated headlines around the world for almost
two decades, and it is still a hot-button issue. As Lords of the Harvest makes
clear, this is a story of ambitious scientists, calculating executives and
outraged activists.
Dan Charles, a former Washington correspondent for Â鶹´«Ã½ and now
science correspondent for National Public Radio, is well placed to tell the tale
of agricultural biotechnology from 1980 to the present. He explains the
protoplasts and plasmids involved in manipulating genes,…
