Autorentext
Pamela C. Ronald is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. Raoul W. Adamchak has grown organic crops for thirty years. He farms and teaches at the certified organic Market Garden at the University of California, Davis Student Farm. Raoul has received the UC Davis 2020 Sustainability Champion Award for Environmental Excellence.

Klappentext

By the year 2050, Earth's population will double. If we continue with current farming practices, vast amounts of wilderness will be lost, millions of birds and billions of insects will die, and the public will lose billions of dollars as a consequence of environmental degradation. "Tomorrow's Table" argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture genetic engineering and organic farming is key to helping feed the world's growing population inan ecologically balanced manner.

Zusammenfassung
"Tomorrow's Table" argues that a judicious blend of two important strands of agriculture--genetic engineering and organic farming--is key to helping feed the world's growing population in an ecologically balanced manner. Pamela Ronald, a geneticist, and her husband, Raoul Adamchak, an organic farmer, take the reader inside their lives for roughly a year, allowing us to look over their shoulders so that we can see what geneticists and organic farmers actually do. Readers see the problems that farmers face, trying to provide larger yields without resorting to expensive or environmentally hazardous chemicals, a problem that will loom larger and larger as the century progresses. They learn how organic farmers and geneticists address these problems. The book is for consumers, farmers, and policy decision makers who want to make food choices and policy that will support ecologically responsible farming practices, and for anyone who wants accurate information about organic farming, genetic engineering, and their potential impacts on human health and the environment. The first edition was published in hardcover in 2008 and in paperback in 2009. This second edition reflects the many and varied changes the fields of farming and genetic engineering have seen since 2009. It includes a new preface and three new chapters-one on politics and food-related protests such as the Marin county anti-vaccine movement and the subsequent outbreak of whooping cough, one on farming and food security, and one containing various recipes. Existing chapters on the tools of genetic engineering, organic vs. conventional foods, the tools of organic agriculture, and food labeling and legislature have all been updated.

Inhalt

• Foreword to the First Edition by Sir Gordon Conway

• Foreword to the Second Edition by Michael Specter

• Preface to the First Edition

• Preface to the Second Edition

• Acknowledgments

• About the Authors

• Part I: Introduction

• 1. Green Revolution 2.0

• Part II: The Farm

• 2. Why Organic Agriculture?
• 3. The Tools of Organic Agriculture

• Part III: The Laboratory

• 4. The Tools of Genetic Engineering

• Part IV: Consumers

• 5. Legislating Lunch
• 6. Whom Can We Trust?
• 7. Are Genetically Engineered Foods Safe to Eat?
• 8. The Mistrust of Science

• Part V: The Environment

• 9. Conserving Wildlands
• 10. Weeds, Gene Flow, and the Environment

• Part VI: Ownership

• 11. Who Owns the Seed?
• 12. The Seed Industry: Accelerating or Impeding Innovation?

• Part VII: The World

• 13. Feeding the World Ethically
• 14. Choosing Innovation

• Part VIII: Dinner

• 15. Deconstructing Dinner: Genetically Engineered, Organically Grown

• Glossary

• References

• Index