the world are unknown and could be precipitously harmful to existing food supplies because of a lack of control of the dissemination of the organisms. On the other hand, there is an issue of overcontrol, predicated of the fact that major corporations have concentrated their expert GM systems in a very few--though all very influential--nation-states, including the People's Republic of China, which has a history of disregarding any of a number of safety issues and international trade and intellectual-property (they do not use that term but rather imply it) protocols (2001, p. 4).
The concluding issue articulates what comes down to the overarching theme of the authors: "[T]ransfer of genes from one organism to another is a chancy and imprecise affair [and] . . . a technology based on the release of organisms into the environme
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