Chocolate or Engineering Trouble

Chocolate: From Start to Finish

Author: Samuel G Woods

Begins with cacao tree and the harvesting of beans, includes chocolate blending, molding, filling, coating, packaging, and new product development. Special sidebar on the history of chocolate with the ancient Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans, and Aztecs of Meso America.

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Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and Its Discontents

Author: Rachel A Schurman

Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States and farmers set fire to genetically modified crops in India. Citizens and consumers have become increasingly aware of and troubled by the issues surrounding these new technologies. Considering cases from agriculture, food, forestry, and pharmaceuticals, this book examines some of the most pressing questions raised by genetic engineering. What determines whether GEOs enter the food supply, and how are such decisions being made? How is the biotechnology industry using its power to reshape food, fiber, and pharmaceutical production, and how are citizen-activists challenging these initiatives? And what are the social and political consequences of global differences over GEOs?

Table of Contents:

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Biotechnology in the New Millenium: Technological Change, Institutional Change, and Political Struggle	1
1	Wonderful Potencies? Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology	24
2	Building a Better Tree: Genetic Engineering and Fiber Farming in Oregon and Washington	63
3	The Migration of Salmon from Nature to Biotechnology	84
4	Making Biotech History: Social Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology and the Future of the Biotechnology Industry	111
5	Eating Risk: The Politics of Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods	130
6	The Global Politics of GEOs: The Achilles' Heel of the Globalization Regime?	152
7	Biotech Battles: Plants, Power, and Intellectual Property in the New Global Governance Regimes	174
8	From Molecules to Medicines: The Use of Genetic Resources in Pharmaceutical Research	195
9	The Brave New Worlds of Agricultural Technoscience: Changing Perspectives, Recurrent Themes, and New Research Directions in Agro-Food Studies	218
	Conclusion: Recreating Democracy	239
	Glossary	255
	Contributors	259
	Bibliography	263
	Index	297