Modified

GMOs and the Threat to Our Food, Our Land, Our Future

De: Caitlin Shetterly

Narrado por: Caitlin Shetterly

A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time: GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-listen book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary discussion about genetically modified foods.

GMO products are among the most consumed and the least understood substances in the United States today. They appear not only in the food we eat but in everything from the interior coating of paper coffee cups and medicines to diapers and toothpaste. We are often completely unaware of their presence.

Caitlin Shetterly discovered the importance of GMOs the hard way. Shortly after she learned that her son had an alarming sensitivity to GMO corn, she was told that she had the same condition, and her family's daily existence changed forever. An expansion of Shetterly's viral Elle article "The Bad Seed", Modified delves deep into the heart of the matter - from the cornfields of Nebraska to the beekeeping conventions in Brussels - to shine a light on the people, the science, and the corporations behind the food we serve ourselves and our families every day. Deeper than an exposé and written by a mother and journalist whose journey had no agenda other than to understand the nuance and confusion behind GMOs, Modified is a rare breed of book that will at once make you weep at the majestic beauty of our Great Plains and force you to harvest deep seeds of doubt about the invisible monsters currently infiltrating our food and our land and threatening our future.

©2016 Caitlin Shetterly (P)2016 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Shetterly’s accessible, well-researched, and damning work brings clarity to an often fuzzy debate.” (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review)

"[Shetterly’s] passionate advocacy, combined with descriptions of multiple research studies and interviews with scientists, doctors, and farmers, makes a compelling case that consumers worldwide need more education on this important issue." (Library Journal, starred review)

“[E]ye-opening.... Modified is [Shetterly’s] passionate and rather horrifying account of what is happening in the heartland and to our food supply.” (Vogue)

Beautifully scary

very comprehensive look at the world of GMO creation, implementation and scope of influences

Fantastic Read

I appreciated to balanced approach to the content of this book; giving space to farmers and scientists who do not see any danger with GMOs. Will be rethinking the foods that I eat and how they are grown.

A balanced look at GMO

The author states in the book that her story lies within the gray area of the questions on whether GMOs are good or bad and presents a well balanced discussion, doing just that. She also presents the story from her perspective of starting out knowing little more than how to spell GMO and, by the end, we all learn a lot. Timely topic. Well researched. Well written.

Must read

A must read for all of humanity! It was so informative and great information that we all need to know.

Great story! Well written and full of info!!

A must read! You would be shocked at what's in our food! Well written and narrated. I enjoyed it!!

50 Shades of GMO Foods

Caitlin's vocabulary and writing ability is so limited that it's off-putting. It is so bad that my friend asked me what I was listening to and remarked that she had seen better writing in Nancy Drew books.

I guess I'm not used to authors of non-fiction books gushing about how startlingly handsome and strapping every man she meets in the book is. (Or how unattractive they are.) The author is a fan of U2 and Bryan Adams. (She likes to mention what's playing on her car radio as she's driving down the road.) Corn is sweet and milky and everything makes her mouth water. Some non-GMO potatoes "are so sweet and soft and silky to the tongue."

When she's not riding around in Zack's big, warm and computerized tractor she's rattling off far-left climate change talking points or maybe finding a reason to mention that black people are pulled over for no reason in WY but that's not likely to happen to her because of the privilege that comes with her white skin.

She drastically changes her reading tone multiple times throughout the book. A part that really comes to mind is her shift in tone from chapter 5 to the beginning of chapter 6. It's as if she paused recording at the end of chapter 5, popped a few Valium, washed that down with some codeine cough syrup and then resumed recording half an hour later.

She speaks of how man is destroying the earth, but appears to have absolutely no knowledge of what is driving 'man-made climate change.' No mention of ionospheric heating, geoengineering efforts or any of the tech that's been altering our climate for decades. To sum all of this up, the book is unnecessarily long-winded, interesting tid-bits of information are few and far between and the book reads as if it were written by a 6th grader. Years ago my ex GF told me that '50 Shades of Grey was the best book she'd ever read so I started to read it. This book reads like '50 Shades of GMO Foods.' If any of this sounds interesting to you, or maybe you just like to roll your eyes around and say 'WTF?' out loud to yourself during your audio book listenings, this may be right up your alley.