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As a person with a background in biochemistry and a passionate interest in issues of public policy, I cut my GMO teeth on "Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating," "GMO Myths and Truths: A Citizen's Guide to the Evidence on the Safety and Efficacy of Genetically Modified Crops and Foods, 3rd Edition," "Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods," and "Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public," as well as many audio and video lectures on the technical science of recombinant-DNA genetic engineering and its drawbacks and potential consequences. I'm drawn to writing that uses a straight here's-the-facts-and-laws approach, with an index to help the reader keep track of details.Caitlin Shetterly's "Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future" isn't that kind of book. It is more in the mold of many modern issues-related documentaries, a first-personal form of narrative nonfiction where the author/director plays a significant, sometimes central, role in the story being told. And as such, the book undoubtedly has a broader appeal to many who are not strict GMO-nerds like I am, and in that sense she seems successful at what I believe she is trying to achieve -- a presentation of the issue that is both personal and "balanced."Parts of the book are like a journal of a road trip, focusing on the surroundings and the author's feelings about them and the present situation. Parts of it are akin to feature journalism, where in an interview with a source it is not just the substance that is worthy of mention, but also the ambience of the place, the food, and the clothes, personality, and tastes of the interviewee.Hers is a quest story, rooted in horrendous/relentless health problems that were plaguing both her and her young son. She is, in a way, the poster child for the deadly ambiguity inherent in the chronic nature of the threats posed by recombinant-DNA foods and their evil twin, the herbicide RoundUp: the connection is so non-immediate and so widespread that people don't recognize it.After much searching, she discovers an allergy to corn, and does an excellent job of showing how stunningly difficult it is to avoid corn products. Only later does she realize that it isn't the corn so much as it is the fact that almost all corn is GMO. But once that connection is made, she embarks on a quest to find out more about GMOs.The subtitle of her book indicates her position on the GMO issue by the time she reaches the end of her quest. But she goes to great lengths to demonstrate her open mind on the subject, and emphasizes her ambivalence about it as she talks to people involved on both sides of the issue, explicitly finding it hard to avoid being swayed to whichever side was taken by the latest person she's talked to. It's a fascinating dance to watch, and (I admit) frustrating for someone as polarized on the subject as I am. It's undoubtedly one of the great strengths of the book -- an ambivalence that will be recognizable to many readers coming on the topic for the first time.A related strength is her ability to get inside the perspective of the people she talks with, seeing the issue from their side. She does the most outstanding job of this with Zach Hunnicutt, a Nebraska corn farmer, a salt-of-the-earth true believer in GE corn (who later begins to hedge his bets). She brings who he is as a person fully to the fore as she gets to know him, riding in his tractor, and talking with him for hours. The same is true for Dave Murphy and his wife Lisa, Iowa-based activists running the organization FoodDemocracyNow! [http://fooddemocracynow.org], and, to a slightly lesser extent, a number of other scientists, farmers, and activists. There's a real sense here of personal involvement and drama, which isn't so widely the case in the books to which I'm more accustomed and attuned.Another powerful section of the book concerns an issue totally new to me -- the threat of GMOs to honey, both to the bees themselves and to the livelihood of bee-keepers. It epitomizes the all-too-common economic threat posed by GMOs, in which farmers who are not growing GMOs can lose large chunks of the international market when countries that reject GMOs find GMO contamination in those farmers' exports.Ms. Shetterly raises aspects of the larger GMO issue throughout the book, and frequently fleshes these out with good footnotes. But for someone like me, having these woven into all the personal aspects of the story makes them somehow less accessible and less connected, and thus less memorable, particularly in the absence of an index.I missed some of the historical people and aspects of the issue that seem to me essential to understanding the GMO saga, though without an index I can't know for sure if that's just due to a poor memory. (And in any case, there is only so much an author can cram into a book.) These include:a) British researcher Armand Pusztai, one of the first to stumble on the health problem of GMO foods and to have his career instantly demolished as a result;b) author Jeffrey Smith (Seeds of Deception), whose work has increased GMO awareness around the world;c) British genetic engineer Michael Antoniou (GMO Myths and Truths), whose work with proteomics has clearly demonstrated the significant difference and attendant risks between GMO and non-GMO plants in their metabolism and content;d) a clear description of the recombinant-DNA process and the details of why it is so dangerous;e) the 1989 GMO tryptophan-caused epidemic that killed hundreds and injured thousands and gives the lie to the "GMOs never hurt anyone" myth, andf) the fraud and illegality documented by Stephen Drucker (Altered Genes, Twisted Truth) in both the history of genetic engineering and the FDA's 1992 declaration of GMOs as "substantially equivalent" to other foods.Despite these reservations, I think the book is important for all those curious or concerned about GMOs. It has something for everyone. For newcomers, it is a "soft-landing" but thorough-enough entry into the issue. For hard-liners like me, it is a wonderful peek into the lives of people we've heard of (and not) on both sides. For pro-GMO people, one would hope its attempt at balance might give them a bit better sense of why their opponents are concerned about GMOs. Though perhaps that's asking too much...
Good information. it wouldn't be the only book you'd want to read on GMOs. but that is with anything. Multiple sources of information are important when reading or research on a topic.
Scientific facts are way more heavier than personal narratives. I don't know. It's just not my dish.
For anyone needing definition on GMO's - read this book. It's incredible and enlightening. Should be required material in every University in the USA.
When I first picked up this book, I had high hopes for it, despite the somewhat phony title. The book started off with a reasonable premise of the author's own struggle with her health, and its subsequent possible link to GMO corn consumption.Overall, the only good message in the book is that it is unclear whether GMOs themselves can be harmful, or whether it's the pesticides, and there is no definitive unbiased research behind it. However, the book lacks a single focus. It almost feels like there was not enough material about GMO corn, so a section about honey had to be added to make enough text for a book.Additionally, while the personal story added some credibility in the first couple pages, the book became progressively more personal towards the end, to the point of inappropriateness. To list just a few examples, the author frequently lists recipes. This is not a cookbook, why are there recipes? She includes random sketches, which are sometimes cute, but sometimes (such as the computer that some guy she met learned programming on) completely unrelated to the subject of the book. Somewhere in the middle there are a couple pages describing people pooping on her flight to Italy. Again, this may be funny, but it is simply a distraction from the topic. Closer to the end of the book she says that her husband and she "started trying for a second child" (do I need to know this?), which culminates in her admitting she does not know when her ovulation is (and she does not even dare to use the word itself), and saying that her husband and she "did some exploring" (because the reader really needs to know she had sex with her husband).The author doesn't seem to like any of the people she interviewed, and subtly undermines them by saying things like "Lisa was wearing a clean T-shirt" (does that mean she usually wears a dirty one?), or starting the description of FDN! by describing the type of luxury vehicles they own. She seems to think that everybody has some ulterior motives or double standards.There are several unsubstantiated claims in the book, such as the amount of neonicotinoid needed to kill a fly being higher than that to kill a rat. I did some research, and could not find any evidence for this claim, either in absolute or relative values. There is no footnote to cite the source.When she does cite some research, she does it in an extremely vague way, such as saying "Researchers in Massachusetts have found that in every hive affected by CCD, there is neonicotinoid residue" without providing the source of the study or saying that the residue was never found in non-CCD hives. I was able to find the study on Harvard's website, but she should have just provided a link. The author actually mentions the same study again later in the book, and the second time she does say it was done at Harvard.As I discovered after reading footnote 71, the footnotes do not contain any references to confirm her claims. The book goes "While we wait for more evidence, the most devastatingly enormous losses due to CCD are being suffered by American migratory bee colonies—in other words, those bees that are physically transported around the country to pollinate crops (they are the migrant workers we may never even think about, who have no rights or voice, and yet, like other migrant workers, are imperative to our food economy)." This is a pretty strong claim about migrant workers, and I was curious to see what was in the footnote. It turned out to be some random thoughts about watching videos of transporting bees on YouTube. I wasn't impressed.By this point, the author had lost any credibility she may have had at the beginning. While I do understand it is not a scientific paper, it cannot just claim arbitrary things out of the blue and not provide any sources.Finally, the author does not know what "doldrums" means. Apparently, she was "sitting in the doldrums of the Parliament," which I found enormously entertaining.
Still reading. Hard to hear this information, but so important!
I am in favor of labeling GMO food products. I believe in the right of the consumer to make her or his own choice.With that said, I found myself wincing a bit too often after reading Modified: GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future, by Caitlin Shetterly.Here's what I didn't like. Shetterly applied her investigative talents unevenly when reporting on the GMO issue. For example, she tried to get the reader to understand the people behind the anti-GMO movement, but when talking with the pro-GMO people, she seemed to focus more on the connection between them and industry. There was an undercurrent of fear as she worried that she was being monitored or followed by GMO proponents. And frankly, she wasn't very critical of scientists who agreed with her, but was very critical of those who were.I am a big Rachel Carson fan, and I think that Shetterly's continual reference to Carson and her influence insinuated that Shetterly was forging a similar path in regards to GMOs. However, Carson was influential because she got the science right. There were no chinks in Silent Spring for the pesticide industry to tear down her arguments.I kept thinking about the concept of "confirmation bias" throughout...
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