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Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Genetically Modified Food helps readers trace the history of GMOs, explore the science behind it, understand why and how we utilize them, and discuss controversies concerning GMOs from an objective viewpoint. The title will engage readers on the topic and help them to weigh the pros and cons as they make their own food decisions."--Publisher's website.
5) Gene mapper
Author
Publisher
Haikasoru
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"In a future where reality has been augmented and biology itself has been hacked, the world's food supply is genetically modified, superior, and vulnerable. When gene mapper Hayashida discovers that his custom rice plant has experienced a dysgenic collapse, he suspects sabotage. Hayashida travels Asia to find himself in Ho Chi Minh City with hired-gun hacker Kitamura at his side--and in mortal danger--as he pushes ever nearer to the heart of the mystery"--...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Since they were introduced to the market in the 1990s, GMOs (genetically modified organisms, including genetically modified crops), have been subject to a barrage of criticism. Agriculture has welcomed this new technology, but public opposition has been loud and scientific opinion mixed. In this book, the author examines the controversies over GMOs - health and safety concerns, environmental issues, the implications for world hunger, and the scientific...
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An assessment of the hot-button debate about GMOs by a journalist who became convinced that genetically modified corn was causing family illnesses traces the evolution of ubiquitous modified products and how they are threatening human health,"--NoveList.
An essential book about the biggest food fight of our time, from a journalist and mother who was desperate for answers about GMOs. What exactly are GMOs? Can they really make us sick? Why is there...
11) Blight
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When an agribusiness facility producing genetically engineered food releases a deadly toxin into the environment, seventeen-year-old Tempest Torres becomes entangled in a war she never knew existed.
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