Uncertain Peril
Subtitle: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: March 3, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807085806
Subjects: Science; Nature; Science/Mathematics; Agriculture - Agronomy; Non-Classifiable; Life Sciences - Botany; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Agricultural biotechnology; Economic aspects; Political aspects; Risk assessment; Transgenic plants
Description: Examines the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. The author suggests how green technologies and new approaches to food and farming methods will provide a way out of this growing predicament.