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020    9781472946980|q(hardback) 
020    1472946987|q(hardback) 
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035    (OCoLC)1033574127 
037    |bSt Martins Pr, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy Us Hwy 15,
       Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942, (212)6745151|nSAN 631-5011 
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050  4 TP248.65.F66|bL96 2018 
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100 1  Lynas, Mark,|d1973-|eauthor. 
245 10 Seeds of science :|bhow we got it so wrong on GMOs /|cMark
       Lynas. 
246 1  |iSubtitle on jacket:|awhy we got it so wrong on GMOs  
246 30 How we got it so wrong on GMOs 
264  1 London :|bBloomsbury Sigma,|c2018. 
300    304 pages ;|c23 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Bloomsbury Sigma series 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-291) and 
       index. 
505 0  GMO, GM or GE? -- UK direct action: how we stopped the GMO
       juggernaut -- Seeds of science: how I changed my mind -- 
       The inventors of genetic engineering -- A true history of 
       Monsanto -- Suicide seeds? Farmers and GMOs from Canada to
       Bangladesh -- Africa: let them eat organic baby corn -- 
       The rise and rise of the anti-GMO movement -- What anti-
       GMO activists got right -- How environmentalists think -- 
       Twenty years of failure.   
520    In Seeds of Science, eco-activist Mark Lynas lifts the lid
       on the controversial story and misunderstood science of 
       GMOs. In the mid-1990s, as the global media stirred up a 
       panic about the risks of genetically modified crops, Lynas
       destroyed crop fields and spoke out in the press...until 
       he realized he was wrong. This book explains why. Twenty 
       years after GMO crops became a source of controversy, 
       scientists are working hard to devise new farming methods 
       that will meet the world's food requirements while causing
       the minimum amount of ecological harm. We're now 
       discovering that the environmentalist mainstream might 
       have misjudged the GMO issue completely, and as a 
       consequence we have forfeited two decades' worth of 
       scientific progress in perhaps the most vital area of 
       human need: food. No one is more aware of this fact than 
       Mark Lynas. Starting out as one of the leading activists 
       in the fight against GMOs-from destroying experimental 
       crop fields to leading the charge in the press-in 2013 
       Lynas famously admitted that he got it all wrong. Lynas 
       takes us back to the origins of the technology, and 
       examines the histories of the people and companies who 
       pioneered it. He explains what lead him to question his 
       assumptions on GMOs, and how he is currently tracking 
       poverty by using genetic modification to encourage better 
       harvests. Seeds of Science provides an explanation of the 
       research that has enabled this technology-something which 
       led to countless misconceptions about a field that could 
       provide perhaps the only solution to a planet with a 
       population of ten billion people. 
650  0 Genetically modified foods. 
650  0 Genetically modified foods|xSocial aspects. 
650  0 Genetically modified foods|zDeveloping countries. 
650  0 Genetic engineering|xSeeds. 
650  0 Transgenic organisms. 
650  7 Genetically modified foods.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00940110  
650  7 Transgenic organisms.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01154670  
651  7 Developing countries.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01242969   
830  0 Bloomsbury sigma series ;|vbk.34. 
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921    8m, J.P., added 246 field with alternate subtitle. 
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