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Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public MP3 CD – Unabridged, Aug. 4 2015

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This incisive and insightful book is truly outstanding. Not only is it well-reasoned and scientifically solid, its a pleasure to readand a must-read. David Schubert, PhD, molecular biologist and Head of Cellular Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies 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 Americas children are being callously exposed to experimental foods that were deemed abnormally risky by the FDAs own experts. Tara-Cook Littman, JD Steven Drukers meticulously documented, well-crafted, and spellbinding narrative should serve as a clarion call to all of us. Stephen Naylor, PhD, CEO and Chairman of MaiHealth Inc., Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic (1991-2001) A great book. The evidence is comprehensive and irrefutable; the reasoning is clear and compelling. No one has documented other cases of irresponsible behavior by government regulators and the scientific establishment nearly as well as Druker documents this one. John Ikerd, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri A landmark. It should be required reading in every university biology course. Joseph Cummins, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Genetics, Western University, London, Ontario A beautiful job. The examination of genetic engineering from the standpoint of software engineering is especially insightful, exposing how the former is more like a hackathon than a careful, systematic methodology for revising complex information systems. Thomas J. McCabe, developer of the cyclomatic complexity software metric, a key analytic tool in computer programming employed throughout the world Steven Druker is a hero. He deserves at least a Nobel Prize. Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE and UN Messenger of Peace (from the Foreword)

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Publisher : Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (Aug. 4 2015)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1511311479
ISBN-13 : 978-1511311472
Item weight : 91 g
Dimensions : 17.15 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #3,276,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,420 in Biotechnology Books
- #1,617 in Biotechnology (Books)
- #2,709 in Biotechnology in Bioengineering

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Steven M. Druker is a public interest attorney who initiated a lawsuit that forced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to divulge its files on genetically engineered foods. This exposed how the agency had covered up the warnings of its own scientists about the risks, lied about the facts, and then ushered these foods onto the market in violation of federal law. He has served on the food safety panels at conferences held by the National Research Council and the FDA, presented lectures at numerous universities, met with government officials throughout the world, and conferred at the White House Executive Offices with a task force of President Clinton’s Council on Environmental Quality.

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Big Bill

Recommended .

Reviewed in Canada on April 4, 2017

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As a reader of Science Fiction since the 1960's , and a nutritionally oriented person since the 1970's , I greeted Genetically Modified products with both expectant optimism and caution. As time went by it seemed my caution regarding GMO foods might be justified , but with " so called experts " giving diametrically opposed opinions , who to believe. This hardcover 418 page ( plus 82 pages of references ) is an exhaustive examination of the subject covering the subject from its' beginnings to present day. If you want to have an informed opinion on the subject this is a great source of information. I am now convinced that GMOs deserve extreme caution , and that plants engineered simply to survive increased doses of pesticides will have a negative impact on health , and backfire anyway . as they result in increasingly pesticide resistant super weeds and a build up of poison in the soil. Recommended .

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Elizabeth

Thank you Mr Steven Druker

Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2015

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What an expos'e. If I could afford it - I would purchase a copy of this book for every
human being on the planet, especially Americans. The first copy would be gifted to Bill
and Melinda Gates.
How could the USA (allegedly) so mislead and misappropriate the traditional trust of the
world as it appears to have done? When does the repair begin?
Hopefully Mr Druker's courage in presenting this expos'e will result in Scientists, in the
true sense of the word, finding their own voices and start saying it like it truthfully is.

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Arran

An amazing expose of GMOs

Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2015

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An amazing expose of GMOs, with a glowing endorsement by planetary hero, Dr. Jane Goodall!

I'm reading "Altered Genes, Twisted Truth" by Steven Druker. Anyone interested in the facts behind GE or GMO foods and how they were able to proliferate globally, must read this book, based on secret FDA files on the development of GMO crops. It reads like a fast paced crime novel, but it's also heavy with facts, quotes and conversations with many eminent American scientists who dared to buck the system. The author and lawyer Steven Druker successfully sued the US FDA to have these formerly top secret documents released. In this meticulous book, with a forward by Jane Goodall, Druker explodes a host of myths and lies about the safety and efficacy of GMO foods. Druker has a sound scientific background as well. One of the shockers he uncovered was that government and Monsanto-backed scientists rammed through deregulation and fast track approval of GMOs with no objective independent safety or environmental risk studies of GMO crops, their effect in human health and long term impacts to the environment. Druker quotes a number of the world's leading scientists who were demanding safety and ecological studies before releasing alien species into the food chain, but they were muzzled and suppressed.

There has been massive collusion between governments, the huge pesticide companies, agribiz and their bought and paid for scientists.

I highly recommend reading "Altered Genes, Twisted Truths". You will be amazed and shocked by what you read. And you will develop a great deal of clarity and understanding on this formerly obtuse and difficult to understand technology which, with the massive use of carcinogenic glyphosate herbicide (which the GMO crops are artificially engineered to withstand), are poisoning our world and significantly diminishing the quality of life. We've got to stop this before it's too late.

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egflm

Everyone should read this

Reviewed in Canada on June 16, 2016

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Well I am only into the first chapter but what I have red so far is fascinating and indeed informative..I was not aware that the Biotach initiative of genetically modifying nature went back as far as the Regan administration. However it simply confirms what I had already suspected that corrupt government wanted this highly dangerous 'tinkering with nature' to go through unimpeded all of the approval channels without human trails. Everyone on the planet should inform themselves and read this book if you value the planet

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Jamil Azad

an essential work to understand what GMOs are,

Reviewed in Canada on June 30, 2015

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an essential work to understand what GMOs are, what they are doing to us and the conspiracy that allowed this horror to happen

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Janice Erickson

Great Book

Reviewed in Canada on April 9, 2015

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I have just started reading this book, and I am finding it very easy for a lay person to read. There is such important information in this book that I think that everyone should read this book. This book and the book "Return To Food" by Sherry Strong will help anyone make very wise food choices and life choices!

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mel

How science and acedemia has sold the general public to line their pockets

Reviewed in Canada on September 18, 2015

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A must read!! If you care about your food and heath, you must understand what big business/money are trying to push down our collective throats, literally!

Fore warned is fore armed (with knowledge)....get it, share it.

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Linda Nielson

the truths uncovered in this book make me wonder why ...

Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2015

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the truths uncovered in this book make me wonder why we pay to be protected by the FDA since they are traitors protecting bio industry and Monsanto to the detriment of the worlds population. A must read!!!!

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Ian P.

A Must Read Book with International Significance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2015

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A must read book that has true international significance for anybody concerned about their own, and their family members, health and wellbeing.

Steve Druker points out that "what Monsanto wanted (and demanded) from the FDA was a policy that projected the illusion that its foods were being responsibly regulated but that in reality imposed no regulatory requirements at all". That "the US Coordinated Framework for Biotechnology Regulation is based principally in political criteria, not solidly based in science as its proponents claimed."

He graphically explains how if the law "had been obeyed there's little likelihood that any GE food would have entered the nation's kitchens", the FDA has itself " been willfully violating it (the law) for two decades" and "The FDA's policy on GE foods has survived only through widespread confusion". Furthermore, "in addressing the risks posed by genetic engineering,there has been regulatory irresponsibility on a global scale".

Additionally "in its handling of the Pusztai incident, the UK government demonstrated it also desired the disabling of research that could damage the image of biotech - and was just as willing as the US government to effect this in a ruthless manner. Accordingly, although Pusztai's research had been funded by the Scottish government, and was supposed to establish a sounder protocol for future studies on GE food, when it produced embarrassing results, the central goverment shut it down and made sure those engineered potatoes would yield no further distasteful discoveries."

That "due to a malfunction of the American media,false notions about GE foods continue to prevail. Even though the managers of mass communication have been given incontestable evidence of government fraud that's a reckless gamble with public health, they've consistently failed to report it"

This book leaves no doubt whatsoever that the American population, and those in other nations, are now directly standing into danger. The words of 2 American Presidents seem rather apt:

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people". John F. Kennedy

“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” Abraham Lincoln

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Barrie Sharrock

Excellent but worrying read about a very murky subject.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2015

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I was already sceptical about GM, even when I thought that the products had been tested! Now that I know that they have not, and that bad results are already happening I am convinced that GM foods should be stopped NOW! Sadly the genie is out of the lamp and cannot be returned, but surely any further deployment of genetically modified crops should undergo immediate severe testing before the greedy,moral-less Big Agri and Big Pharma cause any more problems. I see that, already, weeds have become RoundUp resistant and so the producers on the GM seeds are, instead of stopping, adding extra weedkiller resistance to the crops which will surely be transferred to the weeds. What will we do then? Sadly, the United States regulatory authorities are behaving in an astonishingly corrupt fashion, and many alleged scientists involved in GM have abandoned basic scientific principles. Money in brown envelopes?

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George's grandaughter

Highly recommended.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 22, 2015

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Excellent book which lays out the truth about GMO and the risks it poses for human health and for the environment. It exposes the disgraceful lies of the GM industry and of the FDA who, inexplicably, support the process of misinformation and lack of effective regulation.
Everyone should read this book in order to educate themselves on the ways in which GM poses severe risks and on how remiss the US government and the EU have been and still are in addressing these risks.
It gives several examples of harm to people and to agriculture which have already been documented by ethical, eminent scientists and how the FDA and the GM 'scientists' have tried to discredit full and reliable studies which demonstrate the damage which can be caused.
It also gives an outline of the science involved in producing GM organisms and describes why it is impossible to control outcomes.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the future of the GM industry and in the future of the world generally. It is one of the greatest scandals of our modern age.

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Scout

Read this superb book and spread the word

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2015

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This lucid, organised, well-argued, evidence-based book is a necessary read for anyone who values the food they and their loved ones eat. I cannot rate it highly enough, as it courageously exposes corporates, governments, the FDA, the bio-tech industry, scientists and respected scientific institutions and publications for their deliberate obfuscation of the dangers of genetically engineered food and products such as herbicides and insecticides. The astounding ignorance of the bio-tech industry on the possible environmental dangers is breathtaking; the willingness of experts in this field (as well as prominent members of the judiciary, for example) to publish lies and to deny logic, truth and real scientific method for the sake, I assume, of money, power and job security is depressing and shocking. The truth is that GE food harbours potential disasters. There are accounts of some of them that have already occurred. The writer describes clearly for the lay person what the GE methods are and why the results are unpredictable and potentially dangerous. The reader learns about things that even bio-tech students are not taught thoroughly-Intelligent people are being reassured about safety and testing while in fact no proper, adequate testing is being done by the industry, for example. I have always had an instinctive distrust of GM/GE and saw the basic illogicality of anyone saying that a method that has infinite combinations is and will always be safe. This book has given me the information and arguments to understand the process itself and the very primitive way commerce and science are playing with the genome and nature while boasting of their "precision". After the exposure and discussions, Stephen Druker offers other ways of improving food and access to nutrition that would benefit all peoples. Finally, he gives detailed notes and references, as well as websites for the reader to follow up details. If you read this book, and I urge you to do so, I guarantee you will want to discuss it with your friends to spread the word so that we can act on governments, etc, to end this irresponsible, destructive commerce.

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Ossian

I am now buying the dead-tree version so I can easily refer to it when I rebut the rubbish written ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2015

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I bought the Kindle edition. To my surprise, having read the prose of lawyers before, it is an enthralling tale, well-told. I am now buying the dead-tree version so I can easily refer to it when I rebut the rubbish written by the true-believers in GE.

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