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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943-     Subjects     Seeds -- Biotechnology.     Agricultural biotechnology -- Political aspects.     Transgenic plants -- Economic aspects.     Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment.     Consumer protection -- Citizen participation.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943-       by title:      Uncertain peril : ge...         MARC Display

Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and the future of seeds / Claire Hope Cummings. by Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943- Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2008. Subjects Seeds -- Biotechnology.   Agricultural biotechnology -- Political aspects.   Transgenic plants -- Economic aspects.   Transgenic plants -- Risk assessment.   Consumer protection -- Citizen participation. ISBN:  9780807085806 0807085804 Description:  xix, 232 p. ; 23 cm. 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 631.521 Cu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waialua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 631.521 Cu Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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