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Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943-
Subjects
Agricultural biotechnology -- Political aspects.
Transgenic plants -- Economic aspects.
Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment.
Consumer protection -- Citizen participation.
Seeds -- Biotechnology.
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Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and the future of seeds / Claire Hope Cummings.
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Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943-
Subjects
Agricultural biotechnology
--
Political
aspects
.
Transgenic
plants
--
Economic
aspects
.
Transgenic
plants
--
Risk assessment.
Consumer protection
--
Citizen participation.
Seeds
--
Biotechnology.
Publisher Info:
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, ©2008.
Description:
xix, 232 pages ; 23 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780807085806
0807085804
9780807085813
0807085812
Contents:
The rise of the techno-elites
--
Trade secrets
--
Trespass
--
Political science
--
The ownership society
--
The turning points
--
Who owns rice?
--
The botany of scarcity
--
The botany of abundance
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A green wealth
--
Ripe for change
--
A conversation with corn
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The down-turned hand
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A cabinet of seeds displayed
--
Epilogue: the seeded earth.
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Summary:
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.
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