Engineering the Farm: Ethical and Social Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology - Brossura

 
9781559639477: Engineering the Farm: Ethical and Social Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology
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ISBN 10: 1559639474 ISBN 13: 9781559639477
Casa editrice: Island Pr, 2002

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Engineering the Farm offers a wide-ranging examination of the social and ethical issues surrounding the production and consumption of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with leading thinkers and activists taking a broad theoretical approach to the subject. Topics covered include: the historical roots of the anti-biotechnology movement ethical issues involved in introducing genetically altered crops questions of patenting and labeling the "precautionary principle" and its role in the regulation of GMOs effects of genetic modification on the world's food supply ecological concerns and impacts on traditional varieties of domesticated crops potential health effects of GMOsContributors argue that the scope, scale, and size of the present venture in crop modification is so vast and intensive that a thoroughgoing review of agricultural biotechnology must consider its global, moral, cultural, and ecological impacts as well as its effects on individual consumers. Throughout, they argue that more research is needed on genetically modified food and that consumers are entitled to specific information about how food products have been developed.Despite its increasing role in worldwide food production, little has been written about the broader social and ethical implications of GMOs. Engineering the Farm offers a unique approach to the subject for academics, activists, and policymakers involved with questions of environmental policy, ethics, agriculture, environmental health, and related fields.

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Editore
Island Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2002
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1559639474
ISBN 13 
9781559639477
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
200
Redattore
Bailey Britt, Lappe Marc
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ISBN 10:  1559639466 ISBN 13:  9781559639460
Casa editrice: Island Pr, 2002
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