Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
ISBN-10
1594634602
ISBN-13
9781594634604
Series
Food Fight
Category
Crops
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
2017
Publisher
Penguin
Author
Mckay Jenkins

Description

In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding that can help feed an ever-increasing global population and adapt to a changing environment. Critics, meanwhile, call for their banishment, insisting GMOs were designed by overeager scientists and greedy corporations and force us to rely on cheap, unhealthy, processed food. Here noted environment writer McKay Jenkins examines the rise of GMOs - and their future.

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