GMOs decoded : a skeptic's view of genetically modified foods / Sheldon Krimsky.
Krimsky, Sheldon, author.
2019
SB123.57 .K75 2019eb
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Title GMOs decoded : a skeptic's view of genetically modified foods / Sheldon Krimsky.
Author Krimsky, Sheldon, author.
ISBN 9780262350747 (electronic book)
0262350742 (electronic book)
9780262039192
0262039192
Published Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 191 pages) : illustrations
Call Number SB123.57 .K75 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 631.5/233
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Food, health, and the environment.
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Series foreword
Foreword / Marion Nestle
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Traditional plant breeding
Molecular breeding
Differences between traditional and molecular breeding and their significance for evaluating crops
Early products in agricultural biotechnology
Herbicide-resistant transgenic crops
Disease-resistant transgenic crops
Insect-resistant crops
Genetic mechanisms and GMO risk assessment
Contested viewpoints on the health and environmental effects of GMOs
Labeling GMOs
The 2016 National Academies study
The promise and protests of golden rice
Science studies and the GMO conflict
Conclusion
Notes
Index.

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