Uncertain Peril Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds

Name: Uncertain Peril Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
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ISBN: 9780807085813

ISBN-10: 0807085812

ISBN-13: 9780807085813

Edition: 2008

Authors: Claire Hope Cummings

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How genetic engineering threatens seeds, and the stories of those working to save this precious environmental resource Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems and fundamental to our shared survival. Claire Hope Cummings takes readers from the Fertile Crescent in Iraq to the island of Kaua'i in Hawai'i; from Oaxaca, Mexico, to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam to demonstrate that whoever controls seeds, from the farm to the laboratory or patent office, controls the health of the planet. Uncertain Peril is a powerful reminder that what's at stake right now is nothing less than the nature of the future. "An indispensable contribution to the debate over biotechnology. Without…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 3/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English