Good enough to eat? : next generation GM crops / Ian D. Godwin
By: Godwin, Ian [author].
Publisher: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, ©2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 321 p: illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781788010856; 178801085X.Other title: Good enough to eat? : next generation genetically modified crops.Subject(s): Transgenic plants -- Social aspects | Transgenic plants -- History | Transgenic plants -- Ecology | Transgenic plants -- Government policyGenre/Form: History. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | SB123.57 .G65 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000015784 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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