Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: June 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674008670
Subjects: Biotechnology; Food & beverage technology; Technology; Genetically modified foods; Food Biotechnology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science / Environmental Science; Agriculture - General; Food Science; Agricultural Biotechnology; Food
Description: "With genetically modified crops we have entered uncharted territory - where visions of the triumph of biotechnology in agriculture vie with dire views of medical and environmental disaster. For two years Mark L.

Winston traveled this fraught territory at home and abroad, listening to farmers, industry spokespeople, regulators, and researchers, canvassing high-security laboratories, environmentalist enclaves, and cyberspace, making a thorough survey of the facts, opinions, and practices deployed by opponents and proponents of transgenic crops.".

"Through his sympathetic portrayal of the passions on all sides, Winston brings a clear, unbiased perspective to this bewildering landscape.

Traveling with Winston, we see the excitement and curiosity that pervade laboratories developing genetically modified crops, as well as the panic and outrage among dedicated opponents of agricultural biotechnology; the desperation of conventional farmers as they look to science for solutions to the problems driving them from their farms, as well as the deeply held values of organic farmers who dread the incursion of genetically modified crops into their expanding enterprise.

And, Winston shows us, these contrasting attitudes transcend national borders, with troubling counterparts and consequences in the developing world."--BOOK JACKET.