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

By:

Godwin, Ian

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

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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