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 =========================================================================== === 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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the CONS-SPST-BIOTECH-FORUM list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp