Genetic Engineering: Dream or Nightmare? The Brave New World of Science and Business.(Review)

Foreign Policy | December 22, 1998| | Copyright

by Mae-Wan Ho

277 pages, Bath: Gateway Books, 1998 (Distributed in the United States by Access Publishers Network)

Reviewed by Charles C. Mann

Most people, I suspect, regard genetic engineering as something that will happen tomorrow. They are wrong. Biotechnology is here today. Indeed, it may be about to start a trade war. In the United States, biotech - especially agricultural biotech, by far the most economically important branch - is relatively uncontroversial. More than 4,600 genetic modifications of organisms have been field tested, including ...

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