Engineering the Farm
Subtitle: The Social and Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology
Contributors: Britt Bailey (Editor); Marc Lappe (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781559639460
Subjects: Agricultural science; Agriculture & related industries; Genetic Engineering; Impact of science & technology on society; Social aspects; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Agriculture - Sustainable Agriculture; Science; Nature/Ecology; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Moral and ethical aspects; Biotechnology; Technology / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture; Agriculture - General; Agricultural Biotechnology
First sentence: The discovery of plasmid-mediated gene transfer in 1973 afforded science a revolutionary technique for rearranging and modifying the genetic structure of biological species.