Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone

Name: Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone
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ISBN: 9780674015296

ISBN-10: 0674015290

ISBN-13: 9780674015296

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mark L. Winston

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With genetically modified crops we have entered uncharted territory--where visions of the triumph of biotechnology in agriculture vie with dire views of medical and environmental disaster. For two years Mark L. Winston traveled this fraught territory at home and abroad, listening to farmers, industry spokespeople, regulators, and researchers, canvassing high-security laboratories, environmentalist enclaves, and cyberspace, making a thorough survey of the facts, opinions, and practices deployed by opponents and proponents of transgenic crops. Through his sympathetic portrayal of the passions on all sides, Winston brings a clear, unbiased perspective to this bewildering landscape.…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.06" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880

Kenneth Brink is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Physical Oceanography at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He is a world leader in coastal and shelf dynamics and the coupling between shelf and deep ocean circulation. He is past president of The Oceanography Society.Mark L. Winston is a Fellow in the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University.



Prologue



Seeds



In the Heat of the Day



The Regulators



Of Butterflies and Weeds



It Only Moves Forward



Saving the Family Farm



Saving the Bugs



Anything under the Sun



There'll Always Be an England



For the Good of Mankind



Risks Real or Imagined Selected References


Acknowledgments


Index