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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
What exactly are GMOs? Can they really make us sick? Why is there so much controversy around them? After she was diagnosed with a sensitivity to genetically modified corn -- and discovered that her toddler son was suffering from the same condition -- Caitlin Shetterly set out to ask these questions. The answers, and her hard-fought journey to learn them, are here in this disquieting and meditative window into GMOs and how they are modifying not only...
Series
AEI symposia volume 81G
Publisher
American Enterprise Institute
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
[U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Economist]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive review of changes in the condition of production agriculture in the United States since the date of enactment of Title I of the FAIR Act, the Agricultural Market Transition Act (AMTA).
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Language
English
Description
"The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers? concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads in the late nineteenth century. Jon Lauck examines the dimensions of this problem in the American Midwest in the decades following World War II. He...