Against the Grain; Lappe, Marc (Director, Center for Ethics and Toxics, North Carolina, USA); Author: Bailey, Britt (Research Associate, Center for Ethics and Toxics, North Carolina, USA); Hardback; Book

Lappe, Marc (Director, Center for Ethics and Toxics, North Carolina, USA); Author: Bailey, Britt (Research Associate, Center for Ethics and Toxics, North Carolina, USA)
Hardback; Book; Figures, Tables
173 pages
Published: January 1999
Kogan Page
ISBN: 1853835765
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Subtitled 'The Genetic Transformation of Global Agriculture'. Sets out the key arguments being put forward for genetic engineering in agriculture and provides measured and reasoned responses to them.This text uses government and industry documents to show genetic engineering technologies being developed for use in agricultural crops are far from failsafe or risk-free. It explains the scale of what is going, and argues for full public accountability and control of these developments.