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Eat Your Genes: How Genetically Modified Food is Entering Our Diet

Autor Stephen Nottingham
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2003
Eat Your Genesdescribes the genetic engineering techniques used in agriculture. It explores the food industry's commercial motivations, why certain crop modifications have predominated, and the importance of patenting to the genetic engineering enterprise.This book explains how crop segregation and labelling are central to the debate, and outlines the development of consumer resistance to the marketing of GM food in Europe. The potential health and ecological risks, the ethical issues, and the implications for both industrialized and developing countries are examined.The author argues that genetic engineering is still a long way from meeting its promises of feeding the world's hungry and contributing to a more eco-friendly agriculture. As the public debate over the desirability of GM food continues, this is the book to help you think through what is involved.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781842773468
ISBN-10: 1842773461
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: notes, glossary, bibliography, index
Dimensiuni: 143 x 222 x 23 mm
Ediția:2 Rev ed.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Stephen Nottingham is the author ofGenescapes: The Ecology of Genetic Engineering(2002).

Cuprins

Introduction to the New Updated Edition 1. A Brief History of Agricultural Improvements and the Arrival of Genetic Engineering 2. What is Genetic Engineering? 3. Milking It: Increasing Yields and the Pharming of Proteins 4. Herbicide Resistant Crops 5. Insect Resistant Crops and a Modified Insect Baculovirus 6. Designer Food and Engineered Plants 7. Ecological Risks 8. Risks to Human Health 9. Some Ethical and Moral Issues 10. The Lucrative Art of Patenting 11. Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms and Food Products 12. Marketing Approval for Genetically Modified Foods in Europe 13. The Consuming Question of Labelling 14. Impacts on the Third World 15. Prospects for Genetically Modified Food

Recenzii

An authoritative account of the progress and potential of genetic manipulation.
Nottingham offers essential information for those concerned about genetically modified foods.
Refreshingly balanced treatment of genetic engineering of food products.
An excellent book for those who are interested in learning more about genetically modified food.
Full marks ...for as good an overview of the multiple problems that the new technology is spawning as one is likely to read all year.
A rivetting read.
An easy and enjoyable read while still retaining a high level of accuracy in explaining the different issues.
Readable and easy for a lay person to understand, a devastating indictment of genetic engineering. I warmly recommendEat Your Genes.'Permaculture Magazine

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This book examines the impact of genetically engineered foods entering our diet.