Table of Contents

Foreword to the First Edition by Sir Gordon Conway
Foreword to the Second Edition by Michael Specter
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Authors


Part I: Introduction
1. Green Revolution 2.0

Part II: The Farm
2. Why Organic Agriculture?
3. The Tools of Organic Agriculture

Part III: The Laboratory
4. The Tools of Genetic Engineering

Part IV: Consumers
5. Legislating Lunch
6. Whom Can We Trust?
7. Are Genetically Engineered Foods Safe to Eat?
8. The Mistrust of Science

Part V: The Environment
9. Conserving Wildlands
10. Weeds, Gene Flow, and the Environment

Part VI: Ownership
11. Who Owns the Seed?
12. The Seed Industry: Accelerating or Impeding Innovation?

Part VII: The World
13. Feeding the World Ethically
14. Choosing Innovation

Part VIII: Dinner
15. Deconstructing Dinner: Genetically Engineered, Organically Grown

Glossary
References
Index

About the Author

Pamela C. Ronald is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis.

Raoul W. Adamchak has grown organic crops for thirty years. He farms and teaches at the certified organic Market Garden at the University of California, Davis Student Farm. Raoul has received the UC Davis 2020 Sustainability Champion Award for Environmental Excellence.