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050 4 _aSB123.57
_b.G65 2019
100 1 _aGodwin, Ian,
245 1 0 _aGood enough to eat? :
_bnext generation GM crops /
_cIan D. Godwin.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bRoyal Society of Chemistry,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c2019.
300 _axvii, 321 pages :
_billustrations (chiefly color) ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aFood, 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.
520 _aIncludes 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.
650 0 _aTransgenic plants
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aTransgenic plants
_xHistory.
650 0 _aTransgenic plants
_xEcology.
650 0 _aTransgenic plants
_xGovernment policy.
776 0 8 _iEbook version :
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