Environmental Politics Casebook: Genetically Modified Foods

Published:
September 21, 2001 by CRC Press - 304 Pages
Editor(s):
Norman Miller, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

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Features

  • Involves readers in an international public policy debate that is playing out today in newspapers, on TV, and on the Internet
  • Provides a variety of documents not generally regarded as components of environmental politics but which, in fact, shape policies
  • Furnishes a rich mine of materials for discussion, writing, and further research
  • Illustrates and exemplifies the discussions in the companion text Environmental Politics: Interest Groups, the Media, and the Making of Policy

    • Summary

    Environmental Politics Casebook: Genetically Modified Foods includes testimony, journal and newspaper articles, book chapters, and interest group communications such as press releases and on-line briefs, as well as other studies and reports that constitute the principal elements of the public debate on the genetic modification of food. A companion to Environmental Politics: Interest Groups, the Media, and the Making of Policy, it provides the substantive, detailed, case-in-point application for practices and principles previously discussed only in theory, keeping the basic text compact and current.

    Table of Contents

    LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS
    Discussion
    H.R. 3377: The Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, S. 2080
    The Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-know Act
    Congressional Record May 26, 1999 (Edited)
    H.R. 3883: Genetically Engineered Food Safety Act

    REGULATION DOCUMENTS
    Discussion
    New Crops, New Century, New Challenges: How Will Scientists, Farmers, and Consumers Learn to Love Biotechnology and What Happens if they Don't, Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture
    Are Bioengineered Foods Safe? (FDA)
    Healthy Harvests: Growth Through Biotechnology, US Department of State
    FDA to Strengthen Pre-Market Review of Bioengineered Foods, US Department of Health and Human Services
    Plant Biotechnology Regulation: Science-Based and Consumer Accessible from Plow to Plate, American Crop Protection Association
    The Food and Drug Administration's New Proposal on Genetically Engineered Foods: First Draft Analysis, The Center for Food Safety
    The ABC's of GE Food, Environmental Research Foundation
    The Labeling Logic, Charles Margulis, Greenpeace
    Thumbs Down of FDA Rules for Biotech Food-Proposed Regulation Unnecessary, Harmful, Competitive Enterprise Institute
    GMA Comments of USDA/GIPSA Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Testimony of Mary C. Sophos)
    Agricultural Biotechnology-Domestic Regulation, American Farm Bureau

    MEDIA DOCUMENTS
    Discussion
    Frankenstein Foods?, Kenneth Klee, Newsweek
    The Politics of Food, Maria Margaronis, The Nation
    Food Fight Comes to America, John Stauber, The Nation
    Food Risks and Labeling Controversies, Regulation, Volume 23, No. 1
    SCIENCE DOCUMENTS
    Discussion
    US Regulatory System Needs Adjustment as Volume and Mix of Transgenic Plants Increase in Marketplace, National Academy of Sciences
    Opening Statement Press Conference on Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation, National Academy of Sciences
    Biotech Detractors Distort Science to Support their Views, American Council on Science and Health Editorial
    Killer Corn, Jan Rissler, Nucleus
    If You're Not Concerned about GM Foods, You Will Be after You Read This: What the Academy of Science Says about Genetically Engineered Crops, Rachel's Weekly
    Montague vs. Scott: Face Off on Genetically Modified Foods, TomPaine.com
    Risk and Precaution in Agricultural Biotechnology: A Role for Science and Scientists, Katherine Barrett

    ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY DOCUMENTS
    Discussion
    Biotech in Trouble, Part 1, Rachel's Weekly
    Biotech in Trouble, Part 2, Rachel's Weekly
    The X Fields, Greenpeace Quarterly
    Genetically Engineered Foods: Who's Minding the Store, Environmental Defense
    Portrait of an Industry in Trouble, Worldwatch news Brief
    The Next Endangered Species?, The Campaign's Take Action Packet
    Genetic Engineering at a Historic Crossroads: The Sierra Club Biotechnology Task Force Report
    Eating in the Dark, TomPaine.com
    The Genetically Engineered Food Fight, News on Earth
    BUSINESS DOCUMENTS
    Discussion
    Food Labeling: The Problems of Mandated Information for Biotechnology, Consumer Alert
    Billions Served. Reason Magazine Online
    The New Monsanto Pledge
    21st Century Luddites?, Washington Legal Foundation
    INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS
    Discussion
    Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity
    Council Regulation (EC) No. 1139/98 The Council of the European Union
    WEB SITES
    Issues

    Editorial Reviews

    "…likely to illuminate the policy-making process much better than standard texts…As a person who regularly teaches environmental policy courses at several universities, I believe that this book [will] quickly fill a need…for a better approach to presenting politics and policy. I also like the combination of a standard textbook and companion casebooks, which will allow this text to be used in a wide variety of subjects…I would personally assign and use this text for my next environmental policy course."
    -Michael Catania, Esq., former Deputy Commissioner, New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection

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