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Written by a leading campaigner for GM Watch, one of the world's leading lobbying groups, this book reveals the huge issues that are at stake. Genetically modified food has been headline news for years, but it's difficult to know how far the genetic revolution has affected our lives. Is the food on our shelves free of genetically engineered ingredients? How much power do food corporations wield? Andy Rees provides the answers. He shows that, while corporations that produce genetically modified food have met with resistance in Europe, their hold on the US market is strong. They're also expanding operations in less-regulated countries in Africa, Asia and the former Soviet bloc. The US has launched a legal suit to attempt to force the European market open to genetically modified food. What does the future hold? This brilliantly readable book tells us all we need to know.

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This is a precise and accessible guide to the biotech industry's destructive control over our food. This book shows if and how genetically modified food is dangerous to our bodies. The information is well set out and well explained in terms of corporate business and politics, and concludes with what we can do about it. -- Green Shopping Catalogue This book has great pace and is very accessible to the lay public. The scientific content is technically accurate and I like the uncompromising position that it takes. Rees certainly seems to have the gift of capturing so much in so little space or 'capturing the ocean in a drop'. -- Dr Michael Antoniou, Reader in Molecular Genetics at Kings College, London, Guy's Hospital Campus The book reveals evidence and proof against the claims that GM food is beneficial for people, and, rather, illuminates the advantages for big businesses of GM food, seed patenting, and agribusiness... He expounds the risks and dangers to farmers and the environment, and exposes the deceptions of big business to conceal these hazards. The book documents successful opposition against GM foods by protest groups, but concludes with exhortations for vigilance in opposition against, what it labels, 'Genetic Tinkering'. -- Oxfam The timely publication of the book GM and the Corporate Takeover of Everything: a Short Guide for the Confused will give a great boost to all public-spirited citizens who do not want to be confused but want to be informed about what is going on in our troubled world and get the facts straight and not filtered through the biotechnology propaganda machine. Highly recommended!' -- Dr Arpad Pusztai, the world's leading expert on plant lectins Lies and spin are dissected and then pulverized in this copiously documented expose. Rees unmasks the biotech industry's horrific tactics in their race to take over our food supply and the devastation that their GM crops will inflict if we don't act quickly. -- Jeffrey M. Smith, international best-selling author, Seeds of Deception

'Lies and spin are dissected and then pulverised in this copiously documented expose. Rees unmasks the biotech industry's horrific tactics in their race to take over our food supply and the devastation that their GM crops will inflict if we don't act quickly' -- Jeffrey M. Smith, international best-selling author, Seeds of Deception 'Highly recommended!' -- Dr Arpad Pusztai, the world's leading expert on plant lectins 'The book reveals evidence and proof against the claims that GM food is beneficial for people, and, rather, illuminates the advantages for big businesses of GM food, seed patenting, and agribusiness' -- Oxfam 'A precise and accessible guide to the biotech industry's destructive control over our food' -- Green Shopping Catalogue

'A precise and accessible guide to the biotech industry's destructive control over our food' -- Green Shopping Catalogue 'The book reveals evidence and proof against the claims that GM food is beneficial for people, and, rather, illuminates the advantages for big businesses of GM food, seed patenting, and agribusiness' -- Oxfam 'Highly recommended!' -- Dr Arpad Pusztai, the world's leading expert on plant lectins 'Lies and spin are dissected and then pulverised in this copiously documented exposé. Rees unmasks the biotech industry's horrific tactics in their race to take over our food supply and the devastation that their GM crops will inflict if we don't act quickly' -- Jeffrey M. Smith, international best-selling author, Seeds of Deception

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Andy Rees is the author of Genetically Modified Food: A Short Guide For the Confused (Pluto, 2006) The Pocket Green Book: The Environmental Crisis in a Nutshell (Zed, 1991) and former editor of GM Watch's Weekly Watch.

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