Werke von Marcus Wohlsen
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1975
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Wohnorte
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Ausbildung
- Harvard University (BA - English)
University of California, Berkeley (MA - Journalism) - Berufe
- journalist
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Auszeichnungen
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 2
- Mitglieder
- 152
- Beliebtheit
- #137,198
- Bewertung
- 3.2
- Rezensionen
- 10
- ISBNs
- 5
I did find the chapter on Indian farmers "hacking" Monsantos GMO seed stock the old fashioned way rather interesting and amusing. The farmers saved the seeds produced by the GMO plants, crossed them with seeds native to India, saved and then traded the resulting native seeds which in the end produced plants that could cope better in the local conditions than the expensive GMO seeds. And they did all this without paying a licensing fee. Of course, Monsanto wasn't happy about this, but due to lack of regulation and motivation by the Indian government to do anything about this "theft" and hacking of GMO seeds, Monsanto couldn't do anything about it.
If you are looking for inspirational stories of citizen scienctists experimenting with DNA in the garage, this book may interest you. In terms of in-depth science this book is rather lacking.
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