The book that exposes the threat to our food supply from genetic engineering. 
* Explains the dangers of these foods in easily understood terms. * Provides a comprehensive guide to actions you can take to safeguard your food supply. 
Picture a world where the french fries you eat are registered as a pesticide. Where corn plants kill monarch butterflies. Where soy plants thrive on doses of herbicide that would kill any normal plant. Where multinational corporations own the life forms that farmers grow and legally control the farmers' actions. That world exists. The above events are happening, and they are happening to us all. Genetically engineered foods-plants whose genetic structures are altered by scientists in ways that could never occur in nature--are already present in most of the products you buy in supermarkets, unlabeled, unwanted, and largely untested. The threat of these organisms to human and environmental health has caused them to be virtually banned in Europe, yet the U.S. government and a handful of biotech corporations, working hand-in-hand, have actively encouraged their use while discouraging labeling that might alert consumers to what they are eating. 
Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the many ramifications of this dangerous science. Authors Martin Teitel and Kimberly Wilson explain what genetic engineering is and how it works, then explore the health risks involved with eating newly created lifeforms. They address the ecological catastrophe that could result from these modified plants crossing with wild species and escaping human control altogether, as well as the economic devastation that may befall small farmers who find themselves at the mercy of megacorporations for their livelihood. Taking the discussion a step further, they consider the ethical and spiritual implications of this radical change in our relationship to the natural world, showing what the future holds and giving you the information you need to act on your own or to join others in preserving the independence and integrity of our food supply.

Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet

Teitel, Martin

Wilson, Kimberly A.

Literature & Fiction

Park Street Press

The biodiversity crisis—the extinction of thousands of species of plants and animals—is not just a faraway problem for scientists to solve. Instead, the crisis is as close as our backyards, our gardens, and our refrigerator shelves. This engaging, practical guide inspires average Americans to wield their consumer power in favor of protecting the world's plant and animal species.Environmentalist activist Martin Teitel offers compelling evidence that by slightly modifying how we shop, eat, and garden, we can collectively influence the operating decisions of today's corporate agribusiness and help preserve our precious genetic resources. Teitel offers strategies so simple that they require no significant lifestyle change or expense.

Rain Forest in Your Kitchen: The Hidden Connection Between Extinction And Your Supermarket

Business & Money

Economics

Island Press

Reading The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Winning Foundation Grants is like peeking at someone's secret diary or personal email. You feel guilty. This is privileged information. Only in this case Martin Teitel WANTS to reveal everything to you. A long-time foundation CEO, he's fed up with the smoke and mirrors of grant seeking. As head of the Cedar Tree Foundation, Teitel dispensed tens of millions of dollars in grants. He knows the secrets, the preferred approaches, the red flags - and he wants you to know them, too. He's committed to leveling the playing field. What you have in Teitel's book are 188 pages of private information no one before has had to courage to reveal. It's like finding hundred dollar bills on the ground. You ask yourself: What did I do to deserve this good fortune?

The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Winning Foundation Grants: A Foundation CEO Reveals the Secrets You Need to Know

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Emerson & Church

In barely a whisper, the head of the foundation leans over and furtively says, Let me tell you how this really works. Then he divulges, from A to Z, what happens behind closed doors when a proposal is considered for funding. That would be Martin Teitel, a 30-year veteran of the foundation world and head of the Cedar Tree Foundation in Boston. His book, Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal: A Foundation Director Reveals What Happens Next, took a measure of courage to write. You don't pull back the curtains of the inner sanctum without incurring your colleagues wrath. For anyone submitting grant proposals, it's a fascinating read. More importantly, it's the ultimate insider's guide to playing the proposal game AND winning. Teitel's book is so intimate you ll feel like you're reading someone else's mail. A perfect companion to How to Write Knockout Proposals, by Joseph Barbato.

Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal: A Foundation Director Reveals What Happens Next

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Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature: What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Our Planet

Rain Forest in Your Kitchen: The Hidden Connection Between Extinction And Your Supermarket

The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Winning Foundation Grants: A Foundation CEO Reveals the Secrets You Need to Know

Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal: A Foundation Director Reveals What Happens Next