Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Visit Libero WebOPAC . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

Seeds of science : how we got it so wrong on GMOs / Mark Lynas.

Find more information about this publication at Novelist PlusResolver for RSN-790080
.
Item Information
Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date
664 LYNA
 Adult Non Fiction   Paddington . Available .  
Reserve $3.30 Adults, $1.75 Children, VIP, Pensioner or Senior Card holders Catalogue Record 790080
. Catalogue Record 790080 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 790080 ItemInfo Top of page .
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
Record Number 790080
ISBN 9781472946997 (paperback)
Author Lynas, Mark, 1973- author.
Title Seeds of science : how we got it so wrong on GMOs / Mark Lynas.
Publisher/Date London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2018.
©2018
Pagination etc. 304 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Bloomsbury sigma series
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-291) and index.
Contents note GMO, GM or GE? -- UK direct action: how we stopped the GMO juggernaut -- Seeds of science: how I changed my mind -- The inventors of genetic engineering -- A true history of Monsanto -- Suicide seeds? Farmers and GMOs from Canada to Bangladesh -- Africa: let them eat organic baby corn -- The rise and rise of the anti-GMO movement -- What anti-GMO activists got right -- How environmentalists think -- Twenty years of failure.
Summary Note In Seeds of Science, eco-activist Mark Lynas lifts the lid on the controversial story and misunderstood science of GMOs. In the mid-1990s, as the global media stirred up a panic about the risks of genetically modified crops, Lynas destroyed crop fields and spoke out in the press...until he realised he was wrong. This book explains why. Twenty years after GMO crops became a source of controversy, scientists are working hard to devise new farming methods that will meet the world's food requirements while causing the minimum amount of ecological harm. We're now discovering that the environmentalist mainstream might have misjudged the GMO issue completely, and as a consequence we have forfeited two decades' worth of scientific progress in perhaps the most vital area of human need: food. No one is more aware of this fact than Mark Lynas. Starting out as one of the leading activists in the fight against GMOs--from destroying experimental crop fields to leading the charge in the press--in 2013 Lynas famously admitted that he got it all wrong. Lynas takes us back to the origins of the technology, and examines the histories of the people and companies who pioneered it. He explains what lead him to question his assumptions on GMOs, and how he is currently tracking poverty by using genetic modification to encourage better harvests. Seeds of Science provides an explanation of the research that has enabled this technology-something which led to countless misconceptions about a field that could provide perhaps the only solution to a planet with a population of ten billion people.
Subject Genetically modified foods
Genetically modified foods -- Social aspects
Genetically modified foods -- Developing countries
Genetic engineering
Transgenic organisms
Shelf Location 664 LYNA
.
Extra information Catalogue Record 790080
.
Catalogue Information 790080 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 790080 Top of page .
Customers Who Searched for this Item also Searched for:
# Author Title
1 . Gaita, Raimond, 1946- 1 . Romulus, my father / Raimond Gaita. 1
2 . Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 1967- 2 . Infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali. 2
3 . Ozawa, Seiji, 1935- 3 . Absolutely on music : conversations / Haruki Murakami with Seiji Ozawa ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. 3
4 . Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 4 . The God delusion / Richard Dawkins. 4
5  . Journey for peace : His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama / photographed by Manuel Bauer with text by Matthieu Ricard and Christian Schmidt. 5
.

Reviews


This item has not been rated.    Add a Review and/or Rating790080