Toxic Taters - books about biotech hazards in food supply - Brief Article

Sierra, Jan, 2000

Poisonous pesticides, fertilizer pollution, manure lagoons, and confined animals pumped up with hormones and antibiotics are some of the toxic fruits of the relentless industrialization of agriculture. Environmentalists have long rebelled against these developments, while criticizing corporations and their accomplices in government and universities who force them on farmers and consumers.

Now, with the new and possibly greater hazard of genetic engineering added to agrotechnology, the concern is magnified. The following books scrutinize some of the appalling possibilities of a biotech-based food supply--and the equally outrageous arrogance of the companies behind it.