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2008

Format:	Book
Author:	Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943-
Title:	Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and the future of seeds / Claire Hope Cummings.
Publisher, Date:	Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, ©2008.
Description:	xix, 232 pages ; 23 cm
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.
Subjects:	Agricultural biotechnology -- Political aspects. Transgenic plants -- Economic aspects. Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment. Consumer protection -- Citizen participation. Seeds -- Biotechnology. Genetic engineering.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index. Electronic version is restricted to subscribing institutions.
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.
Web Site:	Table of contents
LCCN:	2007026298
ISBN:	9780807085806 0807085804 9780807085813 0807085812
Other Number:	147987073
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Control Number:	210816
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Call Number:	631.5233 Cummings

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