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Mendel in the kitchen : a scientist's view of genetically modified foods / Nina V. Fedoroff and Nancy Marie Brown ; cover design by Van Nguyen ; illustrations by Jeffrey Mathison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fedoroff, Nina V. (Nina Vsevolod), 1942- author.
- Brown, Nancy Marie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetically modified foods.
- Plant genetic engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : Joseph Henry Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While European restaurants race to footnote menus, reassuring concerned gourmands that no genetically modified ingredients were used in the preparation of their food, starving populations around the world eagerly await the next harvest of scientifically improved crops. Mendel in the Kitchen provides a clear and balanced picture of this tangled, tricky (and very timely) topic.
- Contents:
- Against the ways of nature
- The wild and the sown
- The power in the earth
- Genes and species
- Tinkering with evolution
- Making a chimera
- The product or the process
- Is it safe to eat?
- Poisoned rats or poisoned wells
- The butterfly and the corn borer
- Pollen has always flown
- The organic rule
- Sustaining agriculture
- Sharing the fruits
- Food for thought.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-20857-0
- 9786610208579
- 0-309-53185-3
- OCLC:
- 57732963
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