Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential And Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods by Alan McHughen

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  • ISBN 10 0198506740
  • ISBN 13 9780198506744
  • Published Aug 01 2000
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Edition 1st
  • Publisher Galahad Books

Publishers Text

This book explains, in clear and direct language, the technologies underlying genetically modified food, comparing them with other natural methods of plant breeding and production. Researcher Alan McHughen evaluates the safeguards in place from regulators around the world and asks whether these are sufficient. In particular, he examines the question of labeling, held by some to be an obvious way to protect consumers and addresses the honesty and usefulness of some of these labels. Throughout the book, McHughen offers fair-minded, well-informed accounts of issues of real concern, particularly environmental issues, and he outlines way in which consumers can avoid genetically modified food, if you so choose. The author uses question-and-answer boxes to address key issues and real case histories to illustrate the development and regulation of genetically modified food.