Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds Reviews
July 9, 2010 by biotechbillboard.com
Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
- ISBN13: 9780807085813
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
How genetic engineering threatens seeds, and the stories of those working to save this precious environmental resource
Seeds are at the heart of the plant systems that provide us with food, energy, medicine, and even the air we breathe. Their power to adapt will be crucial to our ability to cope with a changing climate. In Uncertain Peril, environmental journalist Claire Hope Cummings examines how agriculture has changed dramatically, how corporate control of seeds undermines their biological integrity and natural abundance, and how communities can maintain seeds as the common heritage of all humanity and preserve the regenerative capacity of the earth.
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Review by R. McCombs for Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
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Ms. Cummings has taken a difficult subject and made it very approachable and understandable. Her use of places to describe just how serious are the problems of GMO’s brings the subject into everyone’s life vividly.
Uncertain Peril should be required reading by every college student and by every politician that wants to leave the earth as a better place for their grandchildren
Review by jeff chandler for Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
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I used to work for Monsanto and thought they were wonderful to work for. i got caught up in their science. as i have got older and switched from conventional to organic farming i have been keenly made aware of just what is going on. Seeing my soil come back to life, diversity in wildlife, beneficial insects and microlife is short of a religous experience. to think i was an addict and they were my dealer!!! what corporations are doing with seeds, chemicals and our freedom to farm is true. Anyone denying this, is either bribed, employed by them, or they own lots of stock and could care less what the agenda is. as our culture transformed from a rural to mostly urban one it’s easy to see how most people have tuned out what is going on with their food. what a shame. Claire wrote this book with passion, i read it with passion. God, i wish i could meet her. Claire, thank you for this book, great job.
Review by Dan Desmond for Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
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Uncertain Peril provides a vivid description of the crisis at hand for our food system and the seed source that provides the foundation for all of the ecosystems we depend upon. Claire Cummings describes the crisis in a way that allows for understanding and action, the two ingredients that offer the only solution at hand. The book covers the current socio-political landscape surrounding genetic materials in a fair and factual manner. The book should be on the reading list of all citizens and particularly educators, high school through college, concerned with the interface of science, food, farming and health.
Review by Thomas W. Wittman for Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
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As our western civilization “evolves” our connection with our food supply has diminished to the point where the basic understanding of farming and the processes involved has diminished. One thing we all know despite this is that food comes from seeds. But what if seeds were no longer available or if they were only viable with the purchase of support chemicals? What would happen if the world’s food supply were contaminated with a corporate gene that eliminated our ability and right to save seeds? Bob Dylan wrote in one of his apocalyptic songs from the seventies “One day even your home garden will be against the law”. This is what is happening in the name of “Feeding the World”, the mantra of the corporations bringing us “better living” with genetic engineering. But so far there has not been a genetically engineered crop that has benefited anyone but corporations like Monsanto and Syngenta. Claire has weaved together a compelling call to action and a succinct report of the direction agriculture is heading. I recommend that you arm yourself with this book and prepare to defend.
Review by Bing Gong for Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds
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Claire Cummings’ Uncertain Peril – Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds is comparable to Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring. It’s a wake up call, to alert us to the fact of the threat to seeds and by extension to our food supply that has been taken over by a handful of corporations.