Food, inc.: Mendel to Monsanto - the promises and perils of the biotech harvest
Description
For most people, the global war over genetically modified foods is a distant and confusing one. The battles are conducted in the mystifying language of genetics. A handful of corporate "life science" giants, such as Monsanto, are pitted against a worldwide network of anticorporate ecowarriors like Greenpeace. And yet the possible benefits of biotech agriculture to our food supply are too vital to be left to either partisan. The companies claim to be leading a new agricultural revolution that will save the world with crops modified to survive frost, drought, pests, and plague. The greens warn that "playing God" with plant genes is dangerous. It could create new allergies, upset ecosystems, destroy biodiversity, and produce uncontrollable mutations. Worst of all, the antibiotech forces say, a single food conglomerate could end up telling us what to eat. In Food, Inc., acclaimed journalist Peter Pringle shows how both sides in this overheated conflict have made false promises, engaged in propaganda science, and indulged in fear-mongering. In this urgent dispatch, he suggests that a fertile partnership between consumers, corporations, scientists, and farmers could still allow the biotech harvest to reach its full potential in helping to overcome the problem of world hunger, providing nutritious food and keeping the environment healthy.
More Details
ISBN:
9780743226110
074326763
9780743267632
074326763
9780743267632
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 237b321a-b093-a8e4-2fc3-9fd175528852 |
---|---|
full_title | food inc mendel to monsanto the promises and perils of the biotech harvest |
author | pringle peter |
grouping_category | book |
lastUpdate | 2017-10-05 04:59:45AM |
Solr Details
accelerated_reader_interest_level | |
---|---|
accelerated_reader_point_value | 0 |
accelerated_reader_reading_level | 0 |
author | Pringle, Peter. |
author_display | Pringle, Peter |
available_at_arlington | Central, Westover |
collection_arlington | Adult Nonfiction |
detailed_location_arlington | Central Adult Nonfiction, Westover Adult Nonfiction |
display_description | |
format_arlington | Book |
format_category_arlington | Books |
id | 237b321a-b093-a8e4-2fc3-9fd175528852 |
isbn | 074326763, 9780743226110, 9780743267632 |
item_details | ils:.b1325490x|.i14292439|Westover Adult Nonfiction|363.192 PRING|||1|false|false|||||On Shelf|Oct 03, 2017|wan||, ils:.b1325490x|.i14292440|Central Adult Nonfiction|363.192 PRING|||1|false|false|||||On Shelf|Aug 13, 2016|can|| |
itype_arlington | Paperback |
lexile_score | -1 |
literary_form | Non Fiction |
literary_form_full | Non Fiction |
local_callnumber_arlington | 363.192 PRING |
owning_library_arlington | Arlington Public Library, Aurora Hills, Central, Cherrydale, Columbia Pike, Connection Crystal City, Detention Center, Glencarlyn, Local History, Plaza, Shirlington, Westover |
owning_location_arlington | Central, Westover |
primary_isbn | 9780743226110 |
publishDate | 2005 |
record_details | ils:.b1325490x|Book|Books||English|Simon & Schuster,|2005.|256 p. ; 21 cm. |
recordtype | grouped_work |
scoping_details_arlington | ils:.b1325490x|.i14292439|On Shelf|On Shelf|false|true|true|false|false|true|999|||, ils:.b1325490x|.i14292440|On Shelf|On Shelf|false|true|true|false|false|true|999||| |
subject_facet | Agricultural biotechnology, Food -- Biotechnology, Genetically modified foods |
title_display | Food, inc. : Mendel to Monsanto - the promises and perils of the biotech harvest |
title_full | Food, inc. : Mendel to Monsanto - the promises and perils of the biotech harvest / Peter Pringle |
title_short | Food, inc. : |
title_sub | Mendel to Monsanto - the promises and perils of the biotech harvest |