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Gm Free: Exposing the Hazards of Biotechnology to Ensure the Integrity of Our Food Supply

Gm Free: Exposing the Hazards of Biotechnology to Ensure the Integrity of Our Food Supply


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The genetic engineering of food crops is an ecological hazard and health crisis that affects us all. Its consequences are global and potentially irrevocable. Yet the decision to use genetically modified organisms is currently being made for you by the government and major multinational corporations. To combat this practice, more than 600 scientists from 72 countries have called for a moratorium on the environmental release of GMOs. GMO Free is the most comprehensive resource available on the science behind this worldwide debate. GMO Free takes a good look at the evidence scientists have compiled, and makes a powerful case for a worldwide ban on GMO crops, to make way for a shift to sustainable agriculture and organic farming. It’s time to take the future of your food supply and environment into your own informed hands. GMO Free will give you the information you need to do so.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Executive Summary

Part 1: No Future for GM Crops
1. Why Not GM Crops?
2. Escalating Problems on the Farm

Part 2: GM Crops Are Not Safe
3. Science and Precaution
4. Safety Tests on GM Foods
5. Transgene Hazards
6. Terminator Crops Spread Male Sterility
7. Herbicide Hazards
8. Horizontal Gene Transfer
9. The CaMV 35S Promoter
10. Transgenic DNA More Likely to Spread
11. Horizontal Transfer of Transgenic DNA
12. Hazards of Horizontal Gene Transfer
13. Conclusion to Parts 1 and 2

Part 3: The Manifold Benefits of Sustainable Agriculture
14. Why Sustainable Agriculture?
15. Higher or Comparable Productivity and Yields
16. Better Soils
17. Cleaner Environment
18. Reduced Pesticides and No Increase in Pests
19. Supporting Biodiversity and Using Diversity
20. Environmental and Economic Sustainability
21. Ameliorating Climate Change
22. Efficient and Profitable Production
23. Improved Food Security and Benefits to Local Communities
24. Organics for Health
25. Conclusion to Part 3

References
Statement of the Independent Science Panel
Index
Resources



About the Author :

Mae-Wan Ho, PhD,
is director of the Institute of Science in Society, and Science Advisor to the Third World Network. Her career spans more than thirty years of research and teaching in biochemistry, molecular genetics, and biophysics.


Lim Li Ching
works as a researcher for both the biosafety program at the Third World Network and the Institute of Science in Society. She is also the deputy editor of the magazine Science in Society.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781890612375
  • Publisher: Vital Health Publishing,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Vital Health Publishing,U.S.
  • Height: 222 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 146 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1890612375
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jul 2004
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Exposing the Hazards of Biotechnology to Ensure the Integrity of Our Food Supply


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