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Gm Food On Trial: Opening Up Alternative Futures of Euro-agriculture

by Les Levidow , Susan Carr
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780415955416
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
  • Publisher: T&F
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 309
  • Original Price: GBP 140.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 567 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Land Use and Safety & Security / General

Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability for societal choices. Since the late 1990s, European public controversy has kept the agri-biotech industry and its promoters on the defensive. As some opponents and regulators alike have declared, 'GM food/crops are on trial'. Suspicion of their guilt has been evoked by moral symbols, as disputes over whether genetically-modified products are modest benign improvements on traditional plant breeding, or dangerous Frankenfoods; and in disputes over whether they are global saviours, or control agents of multinational companies. This book examines European institutions being 'put on trial' for how their regulatory procedures evaluate and regulate GM products, in ways which opened up alternative futures. Levidow and Carr highlight how public controversy created a legitimacy crisis, leading to national policy changes and demands, in turn stimulating changes in EU agbiotech regulations as a strategy to regain legitimacy.

Les Levidow is on the faculty of the Development Policy and Practice department at The Open University.

Susan Carr is a Senior Lecturer in Systems at The Open University.

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