Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food is Entering Our Diet

Introduction to the New Updated Edition
1. A Brief History of Agricultural Improvements and the Arrival of Genetic Engineering
2. What is Genetic Engineering?
3. Milking It: Increasing Yields and the Pharming of Proteins
4. Herbicide Resistant Crops
5. Insect Resistant Crops and a Modified Insect Baculovirus
6. Designer Food and Engineered Plants
7. Ecological Risks
8. Risks to Human Health
9. Some Ethical and Moral Issues
10. The Lucrative Art of Patenting
11. Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms and Food Products
12. Marketing Approval for Genetically Modified Foods in Europe
13. The Consuming Question of Labelling
14. Impacts on the Third World
15. Prospects for Genetically Modified Food

An authoritative account of the progress and potential of genetic manipulation.
Nottingham offers essential information for those concerned about genetically modified foods.
Refreshingly balanced treatment of genetic engineering of food products.
An excellent book for those who are interested in learning more about genetically modified food.
Full marks ...for as good an overview of the multiple problems that the new technology is spawning as one is likely to read all year.
A rivetting read.
An easy and enjoyable read while still retaining a high level of accuracy in explaining the different issues.
Readable and easy for a lay person to understand, a devastating indictment of genetic engineering. I warmly recommend Eat Your Genes.' Permaculture Magazine