Food fight
Subtitle: GMOs and the future of the American diet
By: McKay Jenkins
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781594634604
Subjects: Crops; Genetic engineering; Transgenic plants
Description: "Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One Roots; title: Are GMOs Safe? Is That the Right Question?; title: The Long, Paved Road to Industrial Food, and the Disappearance of the American Farmer; title: Mapping and Engineering and Playing Prometheus; title: Part Two Seeds; title: The Fruit That Saved an Island; title: Trouble in Paradise; title: Fighting for That Which Feeds Us; title: Part Three Fruit; title: Feeding the World; title: The Plant That Started Civilization, and the Plant That Could Save It; title: Can GMOs Be Sustainable?; title: The Farm Next Door.