The inside story of the fight for and against genetic modification in food, from someone who's been on the front line of both sides of the argument
GMO, GM or GE?
Chapter 1: UK Direct Action: How we Stopped the GMO Juggernaut
Chapter 2: Seeds of Science: How I Changed my Mind
Chapter 3: The Inventors of Genetic Engineering
Chapter 4: A True History of Monsanto
Chapter 5: Suicide Seeds? Farmers and GMOs from Canada to
Bangladesh
Chapter 6: Africa: Let Them Eat Organic Baby Corn
Chapter 7: The Rise and Rise of the Anti-GMO Movement
Chapter 8: What Anti-GMO Activists Got Right
Chapter 9: How Environmentalists Think
Chapter 10: Twenty Years of Failure
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Mark Lynas is the author of three major popular science
environmental books: High Tide (2004), Six Degrees (2008) and The
God Species (2011), as well as the Kindle Single ebook Nuclear 2.0
(2012). Six Degrees won the Royal Society prize and was made into a
National Geographic documentary.
Lynas was advisor on climate change to the President of the
Maldives from 2009 until the coup in 2012. He has contributed
extensively to global media, writing for the Guardian, New York
Times, Washington Post, Bangkok Post and numerous others. Until
2017 he was a visiting fellow at the Cornell Alliance for Science,
Cornell University.
In short, Mark Lynas is a saint.
*Sunday Times*
An excellent read, fluent, persuasive and surely right.
*Evening Standard*
Seeds of Science tells the [GMO] story from a unique perspective.
The logic of Lynas's conversion is an implicit challenge to both
the American right and the left.
*The Washington Post*
Gives readers a firsthand look at both sides of the discourse [...]
The book begins with heart-racing accounts of the law-breaking
activities Lynas engaged in [...] By the end of chapter 7, science
has won the debate.
*Science*
Mark Lynas has written a rattling good account of his conversion
from student activist to respected science writer. This is serious
stuff, enlivened by all elements of a popular thriller.
*Literary Review*
The book is full of factoids that'll make you rethink a highly
debated subject, and also what's really going on with those giant
apples that don't bruise or brown.
*bonappetit.com*
Seeks to understand why greens, including Lynas himself, saw
genetic engineering as an enemy from the very beginning [...]
Lynas's experience suggests that the most important mind you can
change is your own [...] Lynas has been through the fire to bring
us this insight.
*Grist*
Partly a level-headed look at the benefits as well as the downsides
of genetic modification, and partly a personal account of how Mark
came to believe that the scientific method was, on the whole, not a
bad way of analysing questions of crop production and farming. I
found it riveting, largely because he writes so well and so
open-mindedly, and I warmly recommend it.
*Philip Pullman*
Mark Lynas tells the remarkable story of a mass delusion fuelled by
primitive folk-science intuitions, sacred values, and
disinformation from some of our most sainted organizations. His
exposé is an important contribution to an issue with enormous
potential for benefiting humanity, and a gripping account of the
tensions that can surround technological progress.
*Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, and the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and
Enlightenment Now*
A gripping story of how a passionate troublemaker became an equally
passionate campaigner for the facts. Seeds of Science is not only a
compellingly-researched argument, it is the tale of how Mark
Lynas's life changed. Reading it may change your life, too.
*Tim Harford, author of Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy
and presenter of More or Less*
Mark Lynas is a courageous writer whose evidence-based turnaround
on GMOs should be a lesson to all environmentalists. A must-read
for anyone who cares about our future.
*Simon Singh, popular science writer and author of The Simpsons and
Their Mathematical Secrets*
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