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Claire Hope CummingsPublication Details
BookBeacon Press2008Availability
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In Uncertain Peril, environmental journalist Claire Hope Cummings exposes the stories behind the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. Writing with passion, she tells the story of seeds as not only the first link in the food chain but also as our only hope for food security in the midst of global warming. ?Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and What to Eat “Uncertain Peril is a wake up call about the threat to our seeds, and to the freedom of the seed.” ?Vandana Shiva, author of Stolen Harvest and editor of Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed “Claire Cummings now takes her place with Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva and other great philosophers and critics deeply concerned over the grim new directions of industrial, hi-tech agriculture, as it undermines ages-old traditional, highly successful relationships between the cultures, the earth and the seeds, that are at the core of all plant life and human existence. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- Examines the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. The author suggests how green technologies and new approaches to food and farming methods will provide a way out of this growing predicament
Contents
- The rise of the techno-elites
- Trade secrets
- Trespass
- Political science
- The ownership society
- The turning points
- Who owns rice?
- The botany of scarcity
- The botany of abundance
- A green wealth
- Ripe for change
- A conversation with corn
- The down-turned hand
- A cabinet of seeds displayed
- Epilogue: the seeded earth
ISBN
- 9780807085806
- 0807085804
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