Product Description: This series provides users with accessible information for evaluating the often conflicting and ever-changing issues surrounding nutrition and healthy living.; This new edition in Lucent's Nutrition and Health series explores the controversy surrounding the development of genetically modified foods and their use for human consumption, including health concerns and the potential environmental impact...read more

Product Description: "The Science at the Edge" series focuses on developments and theories in science that are of widespread popular interest and give rise to controversy and public concern. Each book focuses on 'how science works' with applications and cutting edge examples, and features details of the development or discovery...read more

Product Description: Book by Freedman, Jeri

Covering issues relevant to teens, these full-color books present the information needed to analyze some of the most controversial and challenging topics in today's news and to help empower teenagers to develop their own opinions on the matter.

Discusses the differences between traditional breeding techniques and genetic engineering, and considers the advantages, disadvantages, and possible side-effects of introducing genetically engineered products into the food supply.

Discusses the pros and cons of mass producing modified foods while offering an examination of how these products are made, the specific genes that are altered, and the types of modified food that are in the market today.

An overview of recombined DNA technology, or genetic engineering, techniques used to create crop plants and farm animals with characteristics that are attractive to farmers, food processors, and consumers