Book Reviews for Seeds of Deception:

Seeds of Deception Book Reviews

Good Enough To Eat? I Doubt It

Five days before Christmas, a short item appeared in the Herald, headlined "Canola crop approved". It reported that this new "genetically altered" (a euphemism for genetically engineered or genetically modified) crop had been approved for commercial use, and that "its advocates" said it would boost yields by up to 40 per cent.
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The Byrne Report: Counter Deception

Next November, if not before, Sonoma County residents will vote on a ballot initiative to ban genetically engineered crops. Inside the media swirl of politicized, conflicting information about the value of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), it is hard to separate scientific fact from propaganda. Part of the problem is that the scientific establishment is reluctant to critique the development of products marketed as the solution to world hunger. President George W. Bush has proclaimed GMO skeptics to be "unscientific." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration declares that it "is not aware of any information or data that would suggest that any genetically engineered foods that have been allowed for human use are not as safe as conventional foods."
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The Vortex, American Chemical Society

Seeds of Deception, by Jeffrey M. Smith, is a must read for anyone interested in the food they eat. While Smith writes for the non-technical person he is able to describe the consequences of horizontal gene transfer and also provide adequate documentation to original technical publications.
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Seeds of Deception—Author Exposes the Corrupt Science of GMOs

Books on genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, in the food supply threaten to fill a good-sized shelf, yet so far none of them have even approached the impact of the great muckracking narrative about another destructive segment of the American food industry, Fast Food Nation. Jeffrey Smith’s Seeds of Deception could be the one to break through, although it will have to tunnel into the public mind, since the major media can be counted on to shun any work that examines the biotech industry with a cold eye and a sharp blade.
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Seeds of Deception: A GM thriller

Jeffrey M. Smith was in London to talk about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) food. By sheer, and sweet, synchronicity, this was the same day (10 May 2004, one to remember) that Monsanto announced the end, for the foreseeable future, of GM wheat worldwide.
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Review, excerpted from Publishers Weekly

Recent news headlines have focused on the disagreement between the U.S. and Europe over genetically modified foods: the U.S. exports them, but the European Union doesn't want to import them, believing their safety remains unproven. Are genetically modified foods safe?
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Review from GM Weekly

I confess that I picked up this book with a certain jadedness: after working with breaking GM news for several years, I didn't think there was much more that a book could tell me that my non-scientist's brain could also make sense of. How wrong I was.
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Review from Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts

"The Washington Post reported that mice, usually happy to munch on tomatoes, turned their noses up at the genetically modified FlavrSavr tomato that scientists were so anxious to test on them.…The mice were eventually force-fed the tomato through gastric tubes and stomach washes. Several developed stomach lesions; seven of forty died within two weeks. The tomato was approved without further tests."
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What Can Go Wrong with GM Foods

Americans have some catching up to do on our understanding of genetically engineered foods, even though most of us are eating them every day. Europeans and Canadians have been actively fighting this takeover of our food supply for years and have not only slowed its progress but have provided the world with public records that reveal the abject failure of the scientific community and government regulatory agencies.
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Hard to Swallow—Debunking the propaganda behind genetically modified foods

Some books—The Jungle, Silent Spring, Our Stolen Future—start revolutions. Jeffrey M. Smith's Seeds of Deception, an expose on genetically engineered foods, should join these ranks. If you think I'm exaggerating, then you don't know as much about the genetic engineering of foods crops as you should.
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Review from The Milkweed

In mid-August, Jeffrey M. Smith self-published a fact-packed new book, Seeds of Deception, that lays bare the complex world of genetically modified foods. In my opinion, Smith's book is the next Silent Spring. The facts included in Seeds of Deception devastate the vacuous arguments laid out by biotechnology industry proponents, their hirelings, and government officials who supposedly protect the safety of our nation's food supply.
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Reader's Comments

From Trisha, UK

An in-depth and factual book providing full evidence of corruption at the highest levels, and what can only be described as thuggery and intimidation by the biotech industry in collusion with governments using their financial might to force this unwanted and unnecessary technology onto an unwilling and, sometimes, unwitting public. Definitely a book to read and voice opinion on for everyone who wishes to retain their freedom of choice to eat natural and uncontaminated food.  Tell all your friends and colleagues about the book, and ask them to take action.
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