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Fearing food : risk, health and environment /
Environmental and consumer activists have for a long time blamed pesticides, fertilizers and other aspects of intensive farming for causing environmental degradation and human disease. Yet, as the authors in this book show, intensive farming has enabled growth in food production at a rate greater th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Butterworth Heinemann,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Fearing Food: Risk, Health and Environment; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Executive summary; Biographies; Introduction; The not so silent spring; For pro-environment, read against modern technology; A danger to mankind?; The organochlorine war continues; The POPs protocol; Protecting the ozone layer or merely increasing the cost of carrots?; Fear of food additives; Cyclamates and saccharin
- the perils of dieting; Nitrites; The environmental and health benefits of modern farming techniques; Virtual risks; Food safety regulation: public v private.
- Environmental regulation: private v publicConclusions; References; Section 1 : But is it true?; Chapter 1. The fallacy of the organic Utopia; Summary; Introduction; Saving room for wildlife with high-yield farming; Why we will have to triple farm output by 2050; Organic yields are too low; The shortage of organic plant nutrients; The safety of modern pesticides; Science supporting endocrine disruption collapses; No nutritional advantage from organic foods; Modern farming is the most sustainable; Soil erosion; What are the pesticide impacts on wildlife?; Can we achieve still-higher yields?
- Can we save the small family farm?Carping about wonder wheat; References; Chapter 2. Pollution, pesticides and cancer misconceptions; Summary; Myths and facts about synthetic chemicals and human cancer; References; Chapter 3. Are dietary nitrates a threat to human health?; Summary; Introduction; The metabolism of nitrates; Dietary methaemoglobinaemia in infants
- Blue Baby syndrome; Cancer; Other grievances; Conclusions; References; Chapter 4. Farmyard follies: the end of antibiotics on the farm?; Summary; Introduction; Bacterial resistance; Antibiotics on the farm; Swedish failure.
- Copenhagen coupBan details; Reaction to the ban; Discussion; References; Chapter 5. Genetic modification in context and perspective; Summary; Introduction; Genetic modification in context and perspective; What is genetic modification?; What is feasible now, and in the future?; Anti-viral GM crops; Anti-nematode GM crops; Financial and economic aspects; The key paradoxes; A final word; References; Chapter 6. Packaging and food: interconnections and surprises; Summary; Introduction
- packaging through the ages; Complexity of packaging choices; The trash tango: packaging and waste.
- Food packaging: the big pictureTrends for the future; References; Section 2 : If it's not part of the solution, it's part of the problem; Chapter 7. Dietary disarray: guidelines with a pinch of salt; Summary; Introduction; The dietary guidelines; The scientific evidence; Cholesterol reduction; Fat and children; Some voices of reason; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 8. The perversity of agricultural subsidies; Summary; Introduction; The aims of the CAP; Does CAP lead to economic efficiency: the optimum utilisation of factors of production?