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| A recent tack by the food industry is to acknowledge the drawbacks of industrial food production, but to then offer new corporate-driven technologies such as genetic engineering, irradiation, hydroponics, and precision farming as the purported panacea to the myriad problems of industrial agriculture. Fatal Harvest derails this strategy and details how these new techniques are not the solution, but rather even more destructive and frightening parts of the industrial food problem. |
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The genetically engineered food future will grant the purveyors of chemical companies greater control over our food supply at the expense
of our farm communities, our environment, and even our free exercise
of ethical and religious beliefs. Only by initiating a complete moratorium
on the production and sale of genetically engineered foods can we hope
to forestall the unprecedented risks presented by these foods. -- Joseph Mendelson III, "Unlabeled, Untested, and You're Eating It," Fatal Harvest
Read the full essay
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Photo Credits: USDA (above); Jered Lawson (below) Photo © held by photographers. All rights reserved. © 2002 Center for Food Safety. All rights reserved. info@fatalharvest.org |
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