Popular Book Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto-The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest
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Paperback. Pub Date :2005-02-21 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: Simon Schuster For most people. the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics.A handful of corporate life science giants. such as Monsanto. are pitted against a worldwide network of anticorporate ecowarriors like Greenpeace. And yet the possible benefits of biotech agriculture to our food supply are too vital to be left to either partisan.The companies claim to be leading a new agricultural revolution that will save the world with crops modified to survive frost. drought. pests. and plague. The greens warn that playing God with plant genes is dangerous. It could create new allergies. upset ecosystems. destroy biodiversity. and produce uncontrollable mutations. Worst of all. the antibiotech forces say. a sing...
Paperback. Pub Date :2005-02-21 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: Simon Schuster For most people. the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics.A handful of corporate life science giants. such as Monsanto. are pitted against a worldwide network of anticorporate ecowarriors like Greenpeace. And yet the possible benefits of biotech agriculture to our food supply are too vital to be left to either partisan.The companies claim to be leading a new agricultural revolution that will save the world with crops modified to survive frost. drought. pests. and plague. The greens warn that playing God with plant genes is dangerous. It could create new allergies. upset ecosystems. destroy biodiversity. and produce uncontrollable mutations. Worst of all. the antibiotech forces say. a sing...