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Engineering the Farm : The Social And Ethical Aspects Of Agricultural Biotechnology.
Title:
Engineering the Farm : The Social And Ethical Aspects Of Agricultural Biotechnology.
Author:
Lappe, Marc.
ISBN:
9781610910675
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Contents:
About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Ackowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: GMOs, Luddites, and Concerned Citizens -- Ch 1: Ethical Issues Involving the Production, Planting, and Distribution of Genetically Modified Crops -- Ch 2: Why Foor Biotechnology Needs and Opt Out -- Ch 3: A Naturalist Looks at agriculture Biotechnology -- Ch 4: When Transgenes Wander, Should We Worry? -- Ch 5: Patents, Plants, and People: The Need for a New Ethical Paradigm -- Ch 6: Taking Seriously the Claim that Genetic Engineering Could End Hunger: A Critical Analysis -- Ch 7: The European Response to GM Foods: Rethinking Food Governance -- Ch 8: A Societal Role for Assessing the Safety of Bioengineered Foods -- Ch 9: Learning to Speak Ethics in Technological Debates -- Ch 10: A Perspective on Anti-Biotechnology Convictions -- Afterword: The Biotech Distraction -- Appendix A: In Defense of the Precautionary Principle -- Appensix B: A Declaration of Bioethics and Agricultural Biotechnology -- Notes -- Introduction & Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 & 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Appendix A -- About the Contributors -- Index -- Island Press Board of Directors 2002.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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