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Good enough to eat? : next generation GM crops / Ian D. Godwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Godwin, Ian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transgenic plants--History.
- Transgenic plants.
- Transgenic plants--Ecology.
- Transgenic plants--Government policy.
- Food--Biotechnology.
- Food.
- Genetically modified foods.
- Transgenic plants--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 321 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), charts.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Royal Society of Chemistry, [2019]
- Summary:
- Including interviews from both sides of the (farmyard) fence; from biologists to farmers and nutritionists to activists, Good Enough to Eat? charts the history of GM foods from the laboratory to the global dinner plate. Equally informative and entertaining, Godwin chronicles the social, political and philosophical arguments for and against GM crops, and the science and knowledge behind the battle for global food security and sustainability.
- Contents:
- Food, glorious food
- A kind of magic
- Revolution. Herbicide resistance : Roundup ready ; Insect resistance : Bt cotton and maize ; Bt maize ; Disease resistance : the virus-resistant rainbow papaya
- Chemical heart
- Wide open spaces. Soybean and Roundup ready ; GM maize in the USA and Africa ; GM "rainbow" virus-resistant papaya
- Bad moon rising. Highly nutritious soybean ; Kinki pigs ; StarLink maize
- Paint it black. GM foods are toxic ; Farmer suicides ; Bt maize killed monarch butterflies ; GMO = pesticides ; GMO is not organic
- Not ready to make nice
- O fortuna!
- New kid in town
- For a better day.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed March 21, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Godwin, Ian. Good enough to eat?
- ISBN:
- 9781839168376
- 1839168374
- 9781705207833
- 1705207839
- 9781788016810
- 1788016815
- OCLC:
- 1360436502
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