This looks very interesting. Note that one reviewer, Michael Watts, is from 
 UC Berkeley. Previously very few academics have spoken out against the 
corporate  biotech assault on nature. Maybe that is now changing.--Tom
 
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New book announcement

Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists  versus Agribusiness in the 
Struggle over Biotechnology
by Rachel Schurman  and William A. Munro

How activists changed the trajectory of the new  agricultural 
biotechnologies

"Take(s) a fresh and carefully balanced look  at the social movement
spawned by this technology. Anyone who wants to  understand why groups
across the globe oppose genetically modified foods will  find this book
revelatory."
-Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and  Safe Food

"Provides a new and compelling account of the contemporary  struggles
over agricultural biotechnology. This superb depiction of the  cultural
and social lifeworlds of both the agro-industries and of  the
activists, simultaneously reveals the hubris and market ambition  of
agro-genetic engineering and of the formation of an  oppositional
ideology. A brave and unflinching account of the world of  contemporary
agribusiness and its opponents."
-Michael Watts, University  of California,  Berkeley

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/S/schurman_fighting.html

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