NMC Library
Image from Google Jackets

Good enough to eat? : next generation GM crops / Ian D. Godwin.

By: Publisher: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: xvii, 321 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781788010856
  • 178801085X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Ebook version :: No titleLOC classification:
  • SB123.57 .G65 2019
Contents:
Food, glorious food -- A kind of magic -- Revolution. Herbicide resistance : Roundup ready ; Insect resistance : Bt cotton and maize ; Bt maize ; Disease resistance : the virus-resistant rainbow papaya -- Chemical heart -- Wide open spaces. Soybean and Roundup ready ; GM maize in the USA and Africa ; GM "rainbow" virus-resistant papaya -- Bad moon rising. Highly nutritious soybean ; Kinki pigs ; StarLink maize -- Paint it black. GM foods are toxic ; Farmer suicides ; Bt maize killed monarch butterflies ; GMO = pesticides ; GMO is not organic -- Not ready to make nice -- O fortuna! -- New kid in town -- For a better day.
Summary: Includes interviews from both sides of the (farmyard) fence; from biologists to farmers and nutritionists to activists, Good Enough to Eat? charts the history of GM foods from the laboratory to the global dinner plate. Equally informative and entertaining, Godwin chronicles the social, political and philosophical arguments for and against GM crops, and the science and knowledge behind the battle for global food security and sustainability.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks SB123.57 .G65 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001460863

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Food, glorious food -- A kind of magic -- Revolution. Herbicide resistance : Roundup ready ; Insect resistance : Bt cotton and maize ; Bt maize ; Disease resistance : the virus-resistant rainbow papaya -- Chemical heart -- Wide open spaces. Soybean and Roundup ready ; GM maize in the USA and Africa ; GM "rainbow" virus-resistant papaya -- Bad moon rising. Highly nutritious soybean ; Kinki pigs ; StarLink maize -- Paint it black. GM foods are toxic ; Farmer suicides ; Bt maize killed monarch butterflies ; GMO = pesticides ; GMO is not organic -- Not ready to make nice -- O fortuna! -- New kid in town -- For a better day.

Includes interviews from both sides of the (farmyard) fence; from biologists to farmers and nutritionists to activists, Good Enough to Eat? charts the history of GM foods from the laboratory to the global dinner plate. Equally informative and entertaining, Godwin chronicles the social, political and philosophical arguments for and against GM crops, and the science and knowledge behind the battle for global food security and sustainability.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha