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Taking population seriously
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ISBN: 1853830550 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Earthscan

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Fighting for the future of food : activists versus agribusiness in the struggle over biotechnology
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ISBN: 9780816647613 0816647615 9780816647620 0816647623 Year: 2010 Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. University of Minnesota Press

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Engineering trouble
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ISBN: 1417525509 052093749X 9780520937499 0520237617 9780520237612 0520240073 9780520240070 9781417525508 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States and farmers set fire to genetically modified crops in India.

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Agricultural biotechnology. --- Agricultural biotechnology - Social aspects. --- Food. --- Food - Biotechnology - Social aspects. --- Genetic engineering. --- Genetic engineering-- Social aspects. --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Social Control, Informal --- Organism Forms --- Technology --- Social Sciences --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Sociology --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Organisms --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Politics --- Public Opinion --- Biotechnology --- Organisms, Genetically Modified --- Industry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Biomedical Engineering --- Tertiary Sector --- Industries --- Sector, Tertiary --- Sectors, Tertiary --- Tertiary Sectors --- Commerce --- Ethics, Business --- GMO Organism --- GMO Organisms --- Genetically Engineered Organisms --- Genetically Modified Organism --- Modified Organism, Genetically --- Organism, Genetically Modified --- Organism, Transgenic --- Organisms, Genetically Engineered --- Genetically Modified Organisms --- Organisms, Transgenic --- Transgenic Organisms --- Genetic Engineering --- Transgenes --- Food, Genetically Modified --- Biotechnologies --- Interest Groups --- Pro-Choice Groups --- Public Opinion Polls --- Group, Interest --- Group, Pro-Choice --- Groups, Interest --- Groups, Pro-Choice --- Interest Group --- Opinion Poll, Public --- Opinion Polls, Public --- Opinion, Public --- Poll, Public Opinion --- Polls, Public Opinion --- Pro Choice Groups --- Pro-Choice Group --- Public Opinion Poll --- Attitude --- Conservatism --- Decentralization --- Liberalism --- Political Factors --- Voting --- Political Activity --- Activities, Political --- Activity, Political --- Factor, Political --- Factors, Political --- Political Activities --- Political Factor --- Dissent and Disputes --- Natural Sciences --- Physical Sciences --- Discipline, Natural Science --- Disciplines, Natural Science --- Natural Science --- Natural Science Discipline --- Physical Science --- Science, Natural --- Science, Physical --- Sciences, Natural --- Sciences, Physical --- General Social Development and Population --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- Arts, Industrial --- Industrial Arts --- Cloud Computing --- Informal Social Control --- Control, Informal Social --- Controls, Informal Social --- Informal Social Controls --- Social Controls, Informal --- Power, Psychological --- Social Conformity --- Biologic Sciences --- Biological Science --- Science, Biological --- Sciences, Biological --- Biological Sciences --- Life Sciences --- Biologic Science --- Biological Science Discipline --- Discipline, Biological Science --- Disciplines, Biological Science --- Life Science --- Science Discipline, Biological --- Science Disciplines, Biological --- Science, Biologic --- Science, Life --- Sciences, Biologic --- Sciences, Life --- Occupations --- Vocations --- Occupation --- Vocation --- Occupational Groups --- Genetic engineering --- Agricultural biotechnology --- Food --- Social aspects.

The Fight Over Food
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ISBN: 027103498X 9780271034980 9780271032740 027103274X 9780271032757 0271032758 Year: 2021 Publisher: University Park, PA

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“One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale family farms, or for organically grown produce.” —Interview with farmer in Skagit County, Washington For much of the later twentieth century, food has been abundant and convenient for most residents of advanced industrial societies. The luxury of taking the safety and dependability of food for granted pushed it to the back burner in the consciousness of many. Increasingly, however, this once taken-for-granted food system is coming under question on issues such as the humane treatment of animals, genetically engineered foods, and social and environmental justice. Many consumers are no longer content with buying into the mainstream, commodity-driven food market on which they once depended. Resistance has emerged in diverse forms, from protests at the opening of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide to ever-greater interest in alternatives, such as CSAs (community-supported agriculture), fair trade, and organic foods. The food system is increasingly becoming an arena of struggle that reflects larger changes in societal values and norms, as expectations are moving beyond the desire for affordable, convenient foods to a need for healthy and environmentally sound alternatives. In this book, leading scholars and scholar-activists provide case studies that illuminate the complexities and contradictions that surround the emergence of a “new day” in agriculture. The essays found in The Fight Over Food analyze and evaluate both the theoretical and historical contexts of the agrifood system and the ways in which trends of individual action and collective activity have led to an “accumulation of resistance” that greatly affects the mainstream market of food production. The overarching theme that integrates the case studies is the idea of human agency and the ways in which people purposefully and creatively generate new forms of action or resistance to facilitate social changes within the structure of predominant cultural norms. Together these studies examine whether these combined efforts will have the strength to create significant and enduring transformations in the food system.

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