Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and the future of seeds / Claire Hope Cummings.
Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943-
2008
S494.5.B563 C86 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and the future of seeds / Claire Hope Cummings.
Author
Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943-
ISBN
9780807085806
0807085804
Publication Details
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xix, 232 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
S494.5.B563 C86 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.5/21
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
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