Altered Genes, Twisted Truth, Steven M. Druker
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth, Steven M. Druker
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Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public

Author: Steven M. Druker

Narrator: Steven M. Druker, Christopher Lane, Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 21 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2015


Synopsis

This audiobook uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world’s food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its products—and get them onto our dinner plates.Altered Genes, Twisted Truth provides a graphic account of how this elaborate fraud was crafted and how it not only deceived the general public, but Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and a host of other astute and influential individuals as well. The audiobook also exposes how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was induced to become a key accomplice—and how it has broken the law and repeatedly lied in order to usher genetically engineered foods onto the market without the safety testing that’s required by federal statute. As a result, for fifteen years America’s families have been regularly ingesting a group of novel products that the FDA’s own scientific staff had previously determined to be unduly hazardous to human health.By the time this gripping story comes to a close, it will be clear that the degradation of science it documents has not only been unsavory but unprecedented—and that in no other instance have so many scientists so seriously subverted the standards they were trained to uphold, misled so many people, and imposed such magnitude of risk on both human health and the health of the environment.

About Steven M. Druker

Steven M. Druker is a public interest attorney who initiated a lawsuit that forced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to divulge its files on genetically engineered foods. This exposed how the agency had covered up the warnings of its own scientists about the risks, lied about the facts, and then ushered these foods onto the market in violation of federal law. He has served on the food safety panels at conferences held by the National Research Council and the FDA, presented lectures at numerous universities, met with government officials throughout the world, and conferred at the White House Executive Offices with a task force of President Clinton’s Council on Environmental Quality.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on July 07, 2015

Read this book - immediately. There is nothing natural or precise about the violent and viral insertion of foreign genes into random locations in a plant's DNA. Nothing predictable will result from over-riding the innate regulatory system of the plant to hyper-express a foreign sequence. There is not......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on February 15, 2013

One of the most important issues we face is the subversion of our food supply by biotech and agri-business. This book examines the legal side of the problem, including the historic complicity of our government in eradicating consumers' rights. Well-written and impeccably researched, it's a wonderful......more

Goodreads review by Julie on May 19, 2015

If we can just get the right people to read this, it could save our food system.......more

Goodreads review by Agile Kindergarten on July 07, 2015

Read this book - immediately. There is nothing natural or precise about the violent and viral insertion of foreign genes into random locations in a plant's DNA. Nothing predictable will result from over-riding the innate regulatory system of the plant to hyper-express a foreign sequence. There is no......more

Goodreads review by Nick on April 20, 2016

Highly recommended for people in the mood to be educated, pissed off, and then disillusioned and horrified. I assume that applies to 99% of us. Druker presents the science of genetic modification in as detailed and understandable a fashion as I've read; more than extensive enough to frame the book's......more