NOTE: Below is a message from Steven Druker, a US-based public interest attorney who, in the 1990s, sued the US Food and Drug Administration over its release of GM foods onto world markets.
While he lost the case on a technicality, the lawsuit forced disclosure of FDA records that showed the agency allowed the release of inadequately tested GMOs against the warnings of its own scientists and experts that these foods were different from conventionally bred foods and could create unexpected toxic or allergenic effects.
To buy the book, just google the title – it's available on Amazon in many countries.
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Message from Steven Druker, attorney
16 Sept 2012
I'm happy to announce that Part One of my new book has been released and is available as an E-book on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo (and is slated to be available soon on iTunes).
It's titled:
"Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public"
The book tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to reconfigure the genetic core of the world's food supply was born, how it has routinely advanced through illicit means, and how it is recklessly subjecting our health and the health of the environment to unacceptable risks. It reveals that the venture is not based on sound science, as its proponents claim, but on the evasion of the standards of science; and it shows how for more than three decades, a host of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of gene-altered foods and get them onto our dinner plates.
The book also exposes how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became a key accomplice, in furtherance of its explicit agenda "to foster" biotechnology. Based on documents pried from the FDA's files through a lawsuit that I initiated, it describes how the agency's politically appointed administrators disregarded the extensive warnings of their own scientists about the unusual risks of these novel products and ushered them onto supermarket shelves in violation of the mandates of federal food safety law. It further shows how they concealed their crime by covering up their experts' warnings and persistently lying about the facts, creating the illusion that genetically engineered (GE) foods have undergone rigorous scientific review when, in reality, the standard procedures of science have been circumvented. Consequently, for fifteen years, America's families have been regularly ingesting a group of novel products that are not only being sold illegally, but were determined to be unduly hazardous by the FDA's scientific staff.
By the time you've finished reading this story, it will be clear that the degradation of science it documents has not only been unsavory but unprecedented and that in no other instance have so many scientists so seriously subverted the standards they were trained to uphold, misled so many people, and imposed such magnitude of risk on both human and environmental health.
Praise for the Book
Following are examples of the accolades the book has received:
"A fascinating book: highly informative, eminently readable, and most enjoyable. It's a real page-turner and an eye-opener."
− Richard C. Jennings, Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK
""Altered Genes, Twisted Truth" is lucid, illuminating, and alarming. As a former New York City prosecutor, I was shocked to discover how the FDA illegally exempted GE foods from the rigorous testing mandated by federal statute. And as the mother of three young kids, I was outraged to learn how America's children are being callously exposed to experimental foods that were deemed abnormally risky by the FDA's own experts."
− Tara-Cook Littman, J.D.
""Altered Genes, Twisted Truth" is very readable, thorough, logical and thought-provoking. Steven Druker exposes shenanigans employed to promote genetic engineering that will surprise even those who have followed the ag biotech industry closely for years. I strongly recommend his book."
Belinda Martineau, Ph.D., a co-developer of the first genetically engineered food and author of First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr[™¢] Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Foods
"Druker's brilliant expose catches the promoters of GE food red-handed: falsifying data, corrupting regulators, lying to Congress. He thoroughly demonstrates how distortions and deceptions have been piled one on top of another, year after year, producing a global industry that teeters on a foundation of fraud and denial. This book is sure to send shockwaves around the world."
− Jeffrey M. Smith, international bestselling author of Seeds of Deception & Genetic Roulette
"This incisive and insightful book is truly outstanding. It dispels the cloud of disinformation spread by the biotech industry and allied scientists that has duped people into believing GE foods are adequately tested and safe to eat. It's a must-read and a pleasure to read."
− David Schubert, Ph.D. molecular biologist and Head of Cellular Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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A Release in Two Parts
Because there's intense interest in the GE food issue in California this autumn, due to a ballot initiative that would require mandatory labeling of the foods in that state, I'm releasing the first eight chapters of the book (which form a riveting, stand-alone story) now as Part One, priced at $5.99 in the U.S. The last seven chapters are slated for release as Part Two in Spring 2013 (likewise in E-book form, priced at $3.99). At that time, the complete book will be released in a printed version (hard and soft cover) distributed by Chelsea Green, and also as an E-book for those who have not already purchased Part One.
Those residing in the U.S. can find the book at the following links:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009AHSOBQ
For those with Nooks, see:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/altered-genes-twisted-truth-how-the-venture-to––?keyword=altered+genes+twisted+truth+how+the+venture+to+...&store=ebook
http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Altered-Genes-Twisted-Truth-Part/book-zXJSQvL-A0qypgh0WSw5cw/page1.html?s=gvO_TOToRkuMTx07gw9suQ&r=1
Remember that you don't have to wait for the book to appear on iTunes to read it on your iPad and iPhone. There are free Kindle reading apps. for that at:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sv_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771
And if you prefer to read the book on your computer, there's an app. for that too.
Further, for those residing outside the U.S. who may not be able to get the book via Amazon, it's available via a Kobo website in almost every nation. Kobo also has free apps for the iPad, iPhone, and most other devices.