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Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity (Paperback, New)
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Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity (Paperback, New)
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It was through control of the shattering of wild seeds that humans
first domesticated plants. Now control over those very plants
threatens to shatter the world's food supply, as loss of genetic
diversity sets the stage for widespread hunger. Large-scale
agriculture has come to favor uniformity in food crops. More than
7,000 U.S. apple varieties once grew in American orchards; 6,000 of
them are no longer available. Every broccoli variety offered
through seed catalogs in 1900 has now disappeared. As the
international genetics supply industry absorbs seed companies--with
nearly one thousand takeovers since 1970--this trend toward
uniformity seems likely to continue; and as third world agriculture
is brought in line with international business interests, the gene
pools of humanity's most basic foods are threatened. The
consequences are more than culinary. Without the genetic diversity
from which farmers traditionally breed for resistance to diseases,
crops are more susceptible to the spread of pestilence. Tragedies
like the Irish Potato Famine may be thought of today as ancient
history; yet the U.S. corn blight of 1970 shows that
technologically based agribusiness is a breeding ground for
disaster. "Shattering" reviews the development of genetic diversity
over 10,000 years of human agriculture, then exposes its loss in
our lifetime at the hands of political and economic forces. The
possibility of crisis is real; this book shows that it may not be
too late to avert it.
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