Haravil and Genetically Modified Foods

Author: George R. Monbiot, Jianhui Li, Zhan Han
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book is an excellent introductory read. The claims and soul-searching questions presented here are not only representative of Donna Haraway's voice but also the voice of the authors George R. Monbiot. Even if you are not concerned with what Haraway has to say, as long as this book offers you a new perspective on genetically modified foods and the post-postmodern entities that follow, it has achieved its purpose. Genetically modified food is a globally debated topic. Since the mid-1990s, the crisis and fear surrounding genes have dominated media, politics, and ethics. The rise in panic is evident. Genetically modified foods disrupt the purity of natural zoning. Connecting the genes of money to those of tomatoes violates the boundaries between species. And this would be a fatal step toward human eugenics engineering that produces hybrid Frankenstein monsters. Donna Haraway, a leading international authority in the field of science and technology studies and the author of the radical cyborg, analyzes the genetic debate ranging from the tomato to the lab rats programmed with cancer—the. She poses difficult questions, guiding us beyond the rigid attitudes of fervor and protest into the ambiguous and unstable territory of the cyborg—the new existence stitched together that eliminates the prior categories of human and non-human. George R. Monbiot takes us on a wide-ranging journey of debate, from Greenpeace and Monsanto to genetics, supercapitalism, the World Wide Web, and the dawn of the 21st-century man.