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Author Rowell, Andrew

Title Don't worry, it's safe to eat : the true story of GM food, BSE, & Foot and Mouth / Andrew Rowell
Published London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages)
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Safe to eat -- Ch. 3. Treated with derision -- Ch. 4. Silent spread -- Ch. 5. Hot potato -- Ch. 6. The 'star chamber' -- Ch. 7. Stars in their eyes -- Ch. 8. Immoral maize -- Ch. 9. Science for sale -- Ch. 10. Whitehall whitewash -- Ch. 11. Towards safe food and public interest science
Summary An investigation of science, politics and our food production system, this text exposes the bogus science, political interference and flawed policies that threaten our food supply. The author tells the story of BSE, revealing how top scientists have been muzzled and how the epidemic continues. Then, against a backdrop of burning cows, Andrew Rowell exposes how trade and macro-economic policies overruled good science in the foot and mouth catastrophe. He also opens the black box of the so-called GM revolution to expose the myth behind the marketing. In tracing how critics are silenced in the bo
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-260) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Genetically modified foods -- Great Britain
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy -- Great Britain
Foot-and-mouth disease -- Great Britain
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Genetically modified foods.
Foot-and-mouth disease.
Public Policy
Food Contamination
Food Contamination -- prevention & control
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform
Food, Genetically Modified
Foot-and-Mouth Disease
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform -- prevention & control
Food, Genetically Modified -- adverse effects
Foot-and-Mouth Disease -- prevention & control
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Foot-and-mouth disease
Genetically modified foods
Genmodifierade livsmedel.
Hälsorisker.
SUBJECT United Kingdom
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849771030
1849771030
1417522402
9781417522408
9781136567841
1136567844