A wide-ranging and comprehensive book in which the author hits out against: transgenic foods - which have the potential to be toxic or allergenic; monoculture - a major cause of malnutrition world-wide; cloning - presented here as a scientifically flawed and morally unjustifiable process; and the large-scale release of transgenic organisms, which is described as `much worse than nuclear weapons as a means of mass destruction - as genes can replicate indefinitely, spread and recombine...'.