金石堂 你吃的食物安全嗎？
將21世紀最震撼的食品安全問題攤開給大家看！
第一本將孟山都等生物科技公司最不想讓人知道的醜陋面目徹底講清楚的驚人大作。
本書被全世界最著名的環境雜誌《生態學家》（The Ecologist）評為「基因改造食品議題的首選之作」。
前英國環境部長麥克．米契爾（Michael Meacher）、德國著名生物學家克里絲汀．魏茨澤克（Christine von Weizsacker）、印度知名作家及物理學家范達娜．席娃（Vandana Shiva），以及芬蘭國際發展部長海蒂．郝塔拉（Heidi Hautala）等各國知名人士大力推薦。
一九九八年秋天，蘇格蘭羅威特研究所的科學家阿帕．普茲泰（Arpad Pusztai）在電視上提到「某種基因改造馬鈴薯在實驗進行一百一十天後，造成老鼠的免疫力降低」，這則言論瞬間為英國的食物安全投下了震撼彈，但時隔不久，普斯泰就被研究院封口，並強迫退休。「普茲泰事件」成了食物基因改造安全最著名的輿論事件。
一九八九年服用左旋色胺酸營養品的美國病患紛紛出現肌肉疼痛、全身麻痺、血球指數迅速飆高，爆發EMS疫情。追溯原因找到了以基因改造菌種大量製造的左旋色胺酸，其釋出的毒素造成人體的傷害。然而，受污染的左旋色胺酸營養品，竟然還能夠輕易通過美國食品藥物管理的規範上市。
你排拒基因改造食物，但加了魚基因的番茄、會自己生成殺蟲劑的馬鈴薯和玉米、帶有蜘蛛基因的羊、植入老鼠基因的豬……你真的了解自己吃的食物嗎？你清楚基因改造食物真正的問題嗎？
本書的作者傑佛瑞．史密斯（Jeffrey M. Smith），曾任職於一所基因改造有機體檢測實驗室，非常清楚整個基因改造產業的內幕。從美國食品藥物管理局科學家的自白；針對毒素、過敏及新疾病的研究報告……他精彩地還原事件始末，揭開基因改造產業背後的刻意操作與政治勾結，如何讓危險的基因改造食品進入我們的日常飲食中。
This explosive expose reveals what the biotech industry doesn’t want you to know—how industry manipulation and political collusion, not sound science, allow dangerous genetically engineered food into your daily diet. Company research is rigged, alarming evidence of health dangers is covered up, and intense political pressure applied. Chapters read like adventure stories and are hard to put down:
-Scientists were offered bribes or threatened. Evidence was stolen. Data was omitted or distorted.
-Government employees who complained were harassed, stripped of responsibilities, or fired.
-Laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven of the forty died within two weeks. The crop was approved without further tests.
-The only independent in-depth feeding study ever conducted showed evidence of alarming health dangers. When the scientist tried to alert the public, he lost his job and was silenced with threats of a lawsuit.
Read the actual internal memos by FDA scientists, warning of toxins, allergies, and new diseases—all ignored by their superiors, including a former attorney for Monsanto. Learn why the FDA withheld information from Congress after a genetically modified supplement killed nearly a hundred people and disabled thousands.
Jeffrey Smith has worked in the field of GM foods for nearly a decade—with nonprofit and political groups and at a GMO detection laboratory. His masterful writing style captivates and charms, while his meticulously documented facts leave no doubt about a massive injustice. Eating such experimental food is gambling with your health. Find out how you can protect yourself and your family.
★本書中譯版《欺騙的種子：揭發政府不想面對、企業不讓你知道的基因改造滅種黑幕》由臉譜出版。
作者簡介
傑佛瑞．史密斯Jeffrey M. Smith
本身是一位說故事高手。他的風格不僅令人著迷而且充滿魅力，同時有憑有據的詳盡事實，也宣告大規模不公不義之事是無庸置疑的。史密斯曾與非營利團體合作促進基因改造食品的相關標示，也曾提案立法要求禁止學校單位使用這些食品以保護孩童健康，並任職於一所基因改造有機體（Genetic Modified Organism, GMO）檢測實驗室。他創立了責任科技機構（Institute for Responsible Technology），並且居住在美國愛荷華州（Iowa），被基因改造玉米和黃豆作物所包圍。
史密斯已經在三十二個國家發表演說，並為五大洲各地的領導人提供指導，甚至因此改變了部分國家的相關政策，所影響的人數以萬計。
他的言論被世界各大媒體報導，如《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》、BBC、《英國每日電報》、《新科學家》雜誌、《泰晤士報》、《美聯社》、《路透社》、《洛杉磯時報》、及《時代》雜誌所報導。他是紀錄片製作人、國際專欄作家，以及知名自由派部落格Huffington Post的作家。
Jeffrey Smith is a former vice president of marketing for the leading laboratory that tests for the presence of GMO in foods. He sees this issue from a unique insider’s perspective through his conversations with scientists, regulators, food manufacturers and consumer groups. He speaks at conferences and is regularly quoted in media around the world. He also founded the Institute for Informed Citizens, to help spread this important knowledge.
