The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (733 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0275978796 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book is guaranteed to fuel the ongoing debate over the future of biotech and its cultural, economic, and political implications.. The authors go on to suggest a way to emerge from this morass, proposing a variety of business and policy reforms that can unlock the potential of this cutting-edge science, while ensuring appropriate safeguards and moving environmentally friendly products into the hands of farmers and consumers. For thousands of years, farmers have bred crops for their resistance to disease, productivity, and nutritional value; and over the past century, scientists have used increasingly more sophisticated methods for modifying them at the genetic level. The net result, they argue, is a combination of public confusion, political manipulation, ill-conceived regulation (from such agencies as the USDA, EPA, and FDA), and ultimately, the obstruction of one of the safest and most promising technologies ever developedwith profoundly negative consequences for the environment and starving people around the world. They explain how a happy conspiracy of anti-technology activism, bureaucratic over-reach, and business lobbying has resulted in a regulatory framework in which there is an inverse relationship between the degree of p
HENRY I. A physician and molecular biologist, he served for 17 years at the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. MILLER, M.D., is a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, where, since 1994, he has focused on the relationship between science and regulation, models for regulatory reform, and federal and international oversight of new advances in biotechnology. He is also co-founder and Vice President of the AgBioWorld Foundation, a nonprofit organization that
The Frankenfood Myth by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko takes a long, hard look a both the new agricultural biotechnology and the policy debate surrounding it."-Barron's"Miller and Conko present a timely treatise on how inappropriate and unscientific regulations are stifling biotechnology as it relates to the food industry. It argues passionately for a simpler view of regulation and that voice should be heard as society scrambles to over-regulate almost everything in sight without considering the cost.full marks to Miller and Conko whou put their view so well; read the book and think about it, to see if we can get a more level playing field about regulation versus risk."-Journal of Commercial Biotechnology"This volume simply eclipses anything else on the subject. Miller and Conko urge those who know the truth about gene splicing to tell it--forcefully."-The Wall Street Journal"The book is valuable in a number or way
A CRITIQUE OF ENVIRONMENTALIST PROTESTS AGAINST GM FOODS Steven H Propp The authors wrote in the Prologue to this 2004 book, "This volume analyzes the foibles, errors, and onconsistencies of current regulatory overreach in the context of biotechnology Advances that represent great benefits for humankind have been delayed and possibly lost altogether. As a result, both our public and individual lives are diminished. Perhaps this volume will serve as a wake-up call to the deficiencies of current public policy and will chart a course to better prospects for the future."They add, "In this volume. "Unique View of Ag Biotech Regulation" according to B. Martineau. The Frankenfood Myth provides, rather colorfully, a history of the regulation of food and drugs in the U.S. and an interesting insider's take on the motivation of the federal employees doing that regulating. It also represents a different point of view in the debate over agricultural genetic engineering. Its authors disagree not only with the not-for-profit organizations like Environmental Defense and Greenpeace, but also with companies in the biotech industry like Monsanto and Novartis, about how to appropriately regula. "The Politics of Science" according to Aletheno. Henry I. Miller has navigated successfully a very challenging course as a popular writer: weaving together a basic education in bioscience and biotechnology and an orientation to the public policy arena and its responses to scientific advance for a general audience. His book could not possibly be more timely for those of us living in Sonoma County, California as we are facing a ballot initiative in November, 2005 which would ban GMO products and research in our county. This initiative was conceived and is being pushed by