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| View Larger Image | Seeds for the Future: The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment
by Jennifer A. Thomson
| | List Price: | $24.95 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 741708 | | Studio: | Cornell University Press | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 158 | | Publication Date: | December 31, 1969 | | Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
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Book Description
Plants have long been genetically modified through crossbreeding and other basic agricultural techniques to make crops more resilient, nutritious, and profitable. In recent decades, however, advances in genetic engineering--including the ability to blend genetic material from animals with that of plants--have allowed farmers to grow crops that resist insect pests, weeds, viruses, and drought; provide increased iron or beta carotene; deliver vaccines and antibodies; reduce common allergens and pollutants; and augment marketable qualities such as delayed ripening. The complicated scientific, environmental, legal, cultural, and ethical issues surrounding these crops are being hotly debated all over the world. In Seeds for the Future, an internationally respected molecular geneticist and food researcher, Jennifer A. Thomson, describes how these crops are developed, distributed, and regulated. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 1.0 based on 1 review)
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GMO Industry DYSINFORMATION funded by Rockefeller Foundation 
Take the clues provided in the Editorial Reviews and from the book's back cover, which misleadingly attempt to equate selective plant breeding with Monsanto Magick. This book is likely available through your local public library, as it was through mine. Although the list of topics covered is impressive, the content does not include any information at all which suggest that there just MIGHT be problems on the horizon. Most conspicuous by its absence is any Topic heading related to human health hazards or experimental investigation related to same.
The Author's Acknowledgment states she "might not have written it if I hadn't received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation... "
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