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2002

Format:	Book
Author:	Pence, Gregory E.
Title:	Designer food : mutant harvest or breadbasket of the world? / Gregory E. Pence.
Publisher, Date:	Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Description:	xii, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	Addresses the issues surrounding the ethics of genetically modified foods, chronicling the history of genetically modified food, and exploring the symbolic importance of food, world hunger, food terrorism, and democratic public participation in the debate surrounding genetically modified food.
Subjects:	Genetically modified foods -- Popular works.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index.
Contents:	Organic versus genetically modified food -- The politics of genetically modified food -- Four perspectives on food -- Europe and Mad Cow Disease -- Is genetically modified food safe? -- Genetically modified crops, environmental ethics, and ecofascism -- Why genetically enhanced food will help to end starvation -- Will genetically modified crops hurt the environment? -- Six concluding reflections -- Appendix: Groups advocating food policy.
LCCN:	2001041926
ISBN:	0742508390 9780742508392
Other Number:	47658865
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Call Number:	363.192 Pence

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