Genetically modified food
http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/full/101/6/290.
^ Peer Reviewed Publications on the Safety of GM Foods. AgBioWorld.
^ Organic Consumers Association
^ True Food Now!
^ James Randerson interviews biologist Arpad Pusztai | Education | The Guardian
^ Ewen SW, Pusztai A (October 1999). "Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine". Lancet 354 (9187): 13534. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(98)05860-7. PMID 10533866.
^ Martin Enserink The Lancet Scolded Over Pusztai Paper Science 22 October 1999: Vol. 286. no. 5440, p. 656 DOI 10.1126/science.286.5440.656a
^ Hammond B, Lemen J, Dudek R, et al. (February 2006). "Results of a 90-day safety assurance study with rats fed grain from corn rootworm-protected corn". Food Chem. Toxicol. 44 (2): 14760. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2005.06.008. PMID 16084637.
^ Hammond B, Dudek R, Lemen J, Nemeth M (June 2004). "Results of a 13 week safety assurance study with rats fed grain from glyphosate tolerant corn". Food Chem. Toxicol. 42 (6): 100314. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2004.02.013. PMID 15110110.
^ Hammond BG, Dudek R, Lemen JK, Nemeth MA (July 2006). "Results of a 90-day safety assurance study with rats fed grain from corn borer-protected corn". Food Chem. Toxicol. 44 (7): 10929. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2006.01.003. PMID 16487643.
^ Spiroux de Vendmois, et al, "A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health" Int J Biol Sci 2009; 5:706-726 Ivyspring International Publisher
^ Doull J, Gaylor D, Greim HA, Lovell DP, Lynch B, Munro IC (November 2007). "Report of an Expert Panel on the reanalysis by of a 90-day study conducted by Monsanto in support of the safety of a genetically modified corn variety (MON 863)". Food Chem. Toxicol. 45 (11): 207385. doi:10.1016/j.fct.2007.08.033. PMID 17900781. http://150.161.28.147/homepage/professores/ppa/biolmol/stacking/Doull_et_al-2007.pdf.
^ Netherwood et al., "Assessing the survival of transgenic planic plant DNA in the human gastrointestinal tract," Nature Biotechnology 22 (2004):2.
^ Smith, Jeffrey. Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, p.130, 2007
^ http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/17450390512331342368 "Animal nutrition with feeds from genetically modified plants" Prof. Dr Gerhard Flachowsky; Andrew Chesson; Karen Aulrich
^ Julie A. Nordlee, "Identification of Brazil-Nut Allergen in Transgenic Soybeans," New England Journal of Medicine, 334 (1996):688-692.
^ Streit, L.G., L.R. Beach, J.C. Register, III, R. Jung, and W.R. Fehr. 2001. Association of the Brazil nut protein gene and Kunitz trypsin inhibitor alleles with soybean protease inhibitor activity and agronomic traits. Crop Sci. 41:17571760.
External links
Cons and Pros of GM food.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/gmfood.shtml
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of
Genes, Technology and Policy
Resolution To Label GMO Food Resolution to secure mandatory labeling of GMO food.
Website Citizens To Label GMO Food Information on GMO food labeling.
FAO Agriculture Department and its SOFA report on Agricultural Biotechnology addressing GM food safety
GMO Compass Information on the use of genetic engineering in the agri-food industry. Authorization database with all GM plants in the EU.
GMO Safety Information about research projects on the biological safety of genetically modified plants.
Approved GM crop database
New Scientist article on GMO foods
The FDA List of Completed Consultations on Bioengineered Foods
Coextra research project on coexistence and tracebility of GM and non-GM supply chains
STEPS Centre Biotechnology Research Archive
Controlling Our Food a documentary film by Marie-Monique Robin
Suggested Reading
Mark Pollack & Gregory Shaffer, When Cooperation Fails: The International Law and Politics of Genetically Modified Foods (Oxford University Press 2009).
Mendel in the Kitchen, by Nina Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown
The environmental food crisis A study done by the UN on feeding the world population (2009)
Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, Ronald and Adamchak (2008) ISBN 978-0195301755
Biotechnology, Agriculture, and Food Security in Southern Africa Edited by Steven Were Omamo and Klaus von Grebmer (2005) (Brief and Book available)
Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey M. Smith.
Beth H. Harrison (2007) Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food: What You Don't Know About the Food You're Eating and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
World Hunger by Brian Kenneth Swain is a new fiction book concerning the topic of genetically-modified food and some potential consequences on society. ISBN 978-0595686254
McHughen, A. Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods, Oxford University Press, 2000
Tokar, B.(ed.) Redesigning Life? Zed Books, 2001.
Let Them Eat Precaution. How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture. By Byrne, J., Conko, G., Entine, J., Gilland, T., Hoban, T. H., Moore, P., Natsios, A. S, Newell-McGloughlin, M., Paarlberg, R. L., Prakash, C. S., Tucker Foreman, C., Edited by Jon Entine AEI Press (Washington) 2006. Facets of the GM crop debate not covered by antagonists to the technology.
Genetics by Nina V. Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown
Helena Norberg-Hodge, "The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize", in The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local 45 (J. Mander & E. Goldsmith eds., 1996)
Ellen Ruppel Shell, New World Syndrome, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, June 2001
Vandana Shiva, A World View of Abundance, ORION, Summer 2000
Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal (2001)
Michael Pollan, The Futures of Food: The Industry Has Found a Way to Co-opt the Threat from Organics and low Food. Remember the Meal in a Pill?, NY TIMES MAG., Sun., May 4, 2003, at sec. 6, p. 63
Matt Lee and Ted Lee, The Next Big Flavor: Searching For the Taste of Tomorrow, id. at 66
Amanda Hesser, Vintage Cuts, id. at 72
Danylo Hawaleshka with Brian Bethune and Sue Ferguson, Tainted Food, (Kraft to develop nanoparticles that can change food color, flavor, and nutrient value to suit a person health or palate)
Gary Ruskin, The Fast Food Trap: How Commercialism Creates Overweight Children, Mothering Mazagine, Nov./December 2003
Kate Zernike, Is Obesity the Responsibility of the Body Politic?, NY TIMES, Sun., November 9, 2003, at sec. 4, p. 3
Carl Hulse, Vote in House Bars Some Suits Citing Obesity, NY TIMES, Thurs., March 11, 2004, at sec. A., p. 1
Garcia, Deborah Koons (Director). 2004. The Future of Food. film.
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