Organically Grown & Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future | Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald

Описание: She's the head of a plant genetics lab at UC Davis; he teaches organic farming there. They're married (with kids), and they coauthored "Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food".

In the book they wrote: "To meet the appetites of the world's population without drastically hurting the environment requires a visionary new approach: combining genetic engineering and organic farming. Genetic engineering can be used to develop seeds with enhanced resistance to pests and pathogens; organic farming can manage the overall spectrum of pests more effectively."

Agriculture has been a revolutionary biological science for 10,000 years, husbanding soil, tweaking the genes of the food crops. This is the next stage.

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