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Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
by Pete Daniel  Synopsis Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic...
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Seeds of Deception (03 Edition)
by Jeffrey M. Smith Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index....
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High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants
by Paul Lurquin Publisher Comments Genetically engineered plant products line the shelves of our grocery stores but we don’t know which ones they are because no label identifies them. Should we be concerned? Biotech companies claim that engineered corn and canola are safe, but are...
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Annals of the New York Academy of Science #964: Genetically Engineered Foods: Assessing Potential Allergenicity
by Tong Jen Fu Synopsis Advances in biotechnology have the potential to bring foods containing proteins derived from genes of non-food origin into the marketplace. Assessing the potential allergenicity of these transgenic proteins as part of the overall food safety evaluation...
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Food for the Future
by Dorling Kindersley Synopsis This title is part of a series of beginner's guides to a wide range of scientific concepts and topical issues affecting our daily lives. It examines future farming methods and its inherent problems such as BSE and offers potential solutions - from...
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect and Inhumane Treatment Inside Th U.S. Meat Industry
by Gail A Eisnitz Publisher Comments You may be getting more than just beef in that burger. This shocking book shows what "USDA Approved" really means. "I'd been documenting and exposing animal abuse for nearly 15 years. But nothing -- not the grisly cockfights nor the pathetic puppy mills,...
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Agrochemical Fate and Movement: Perspectives and Scale of Study (ACS Symposium)
by T R Steinheimer Publisher Comments This book emphasizes the importance of scale-of-study when evaluating the environmental fate and transport characteristics of field-applied pesticides, including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides. The volume examines pesticide usage and its...
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Foodfight: The Citizen's Guide to a Food and Farm Bill
by Daniel Imhoff 
Publisher Comments The Farm Bill is perhaps the single most significant land use legislation enacted in the United States, yet many citizens remain unaware of its power and scope. With subsidies ballooning toward $25 billion dollars per year, the Farm Bill largely dictates...
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Meat: A Love Story
by Susan Bourette Publisher Comments The amusingly enlightening adventure of a woman hunting for the truth about meatand why it's still good enough to eat. After spending a week working undercover at a slaughterhouse and being tormented by blood, the stink, and the squeals of animals being...
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The Emerging Global Food System: Public and Private Sector Issues
by Gerald E Gaull Publisher Comments An outstanding group of leading contributors in the food industry and agriculture discuss such issues as international regulation of food, biotechnical applications and acceptance of bioengineered food products, global trade and tariffs connected with...
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Is Our Food Safe?
by Warren Leon Publisher Comments Every day, new warnings emerge about the safety of the food in our markets, school cafeterias, and restaurants. As industry and government officials rush in with reassurances--and food alarmists call for drastic changes in the American diet--ordinary...
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Seeds of Contention: World Hunger and the Global Controversy Over GM Crops (International Food Policy Research Institute)
by P Pinstrup Andersen Publisher Comments In recent years the media have reported, frequently with alarm, on the increasing use of genetically modified crops in agriculture. Some groups have expressed concern about consumer safety and the risks of large-scale ecosystem damage. Others have noted...
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Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods
by Jeffrey M Smith Publisher Comments Eating genetically modified food is gambling with every bite.The biotech industry's claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe is shattered in this groundbreaking book. Sixty-five health risks of the foods that Americans eat every day are...
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Seeds for the Future: The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment
by Jennifer Thomson Book News Annotation Genetically modified (GM) food has passed from mere controversy to outright fear on many levels, and according to Thomson (microbiology, U. of Cape Town) the scientific facts are often obscured by the negative fantasies. In her quantitative studies of...
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Food for the Future
by Colin Tudge Publisher Comments The Essential Science series makes the difficult and fascinating world of cutting-edge science accessible to everyone with a stimulating mix of lively illustrations and jargon-free text. Important scientific theories are explained clearly in these...
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Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods
by Alan Mchughen Publisher Comments Did you know that there are fish genes in some tomatoes? That Brazil nut genes in soybeans can result in potentially lethal allergic reactions? That rapeseed plants bred to be resistant to herbicides could become uncontrollable superweeds? Genetically...
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High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants
by Paul Lurquin Publisher Comments A research biologist tells the clear-eyed story of modern plant genetics, the human manipulation of biotechnology, and the reality of genetically engineered plants worldwide....
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Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us
by Christopher Cook Publisher Comments This absorbing study looks at the dangers of American food production, including exposure of food to food-borne pathogens, pesticides, and much more....
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Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity
by Jeffrey A Mcneely Publisher Comments Although food-production systems for the world's rural poor typically havehad devastating effects on the planet's wealth of genes, species, and ecosystems, that need not be the case in the future. In Ecoagriculture, two of the world's leading experts on...
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Dinner at the New Gene Cafe: How Genetic Engineering Is Changing What We Eat, How We Live, and the Global Politics of Food
by Bill Lambrecht Publisher Comments Biotech companies are racing to alter the genetic building blocks of the world's food. In the United States, the primary venue for this quiet revolution, the acreage of genetically modified crops has soared from zero to 70 million acres since 1996. More...
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