Dan Charles
Auteur van Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food
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creating designer crops with strange powers - from cholesterol-reducing
soybeans to tobacco plants that act as solar-powered pharmaceutical factories.
They promise great benefits: better health for consumers and more productive
agriculture. But the vision has a dark side, awakening fears of profit-driven
tampering with life.
Lords of the Harvest traces the story of three young scientists who were lured
away from academia in the 1980's to work at Monsanto, a chemical company
muscling its way into biotechnology. These three scientists wanted to make
plants more productive. They wanted to end world hunger. They wanted to be on
the vanguard of a green revolution. They had no idea what was in store."
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