Les Levidow

GM Food on Trial

Testing European Democracy

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Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability for societal choices. Since the late 1990s, European public controversy has kept the agri-biotech industry and its promoters on the defensive. As some opponents and regulators alike have declared, 'GM food/crops are on trial'. Suspicion of their guilt has been evoked by moral symbols, as disputes over whether genetically-modified products are modest benign improvements on traditional plant breeding, or dangerous Frankenfoods; and in disputes over whether they are global saviours, or control agents of multinati… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Carr, Susan

ISBN: 978-1-135-23781-3
EAN: 9781135237813
Produktnummer: 18425731
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 324 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'006 KB
Abbildungen: 10 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 10 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 16 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Les Levidow is on the faculty of the Development Policy and Practice department at The Open University.Susan Carr is a Senior Lecturer in Systems at The Open University.