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Author Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943-

Title Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and the future of seeds / Claire Hope Cummings.

Publication Info. Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  631.521 CUMMINGS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  631.521 CUMMINGS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  631.521 C91    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  631.521 CUM    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  631.521 CU    Check Shelf
Description xix, 232 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.
Summary Examines the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. The author suggests how green technologies and new approaches to food and farming methods will provide a way out of this growing predicament.
Contents The rise of the techno-elites -- Trade secrets -- Trespass -- Political science -- The ownership society -- The turning points -- Who owns rice? -- The botany of scarcity -- The botany of abundance -- A green wealth -- Ripe for change -- A conversation with corn -- The down-turned hand -- A cabinet of seeds displayed -- Epilogue : the seeded earth.
Subject Agricultural biotechnology -- Political aspects.
Transgenic plants -- Economic aspects.
Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment.
Consumer protection -- Citizen participation.
Seeds -- Biotechnology.
ISBN 9780807085806
0807085804
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