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Guess What's Coming to Dinner
Title
Guess What's Coming to Dinner [electronic resource (video)] / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c1990.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (50 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 13, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This video presents a comprehensive indictment of the way we produce, grow, process, and sell the most important requirement of any human society-food. Dr. Ed Dart, a genetic engineer, and Roger Salquist of the California biotechnical firm Calgene, claim that food shortages in the developing world could be readily overcome by introducing genetic engineering. They state that by transferring genes from plants that can survive drought into ordinary crops grown in drought-stricken countries, food production can be greatly increased. However, Professor John Lawton of the Imperial College warns of the dangers inherent in releasing some genetically engineered organisms.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Introduction: Biotechnology (2:16)
Genetically Altered Plants (2:00)
Genetic Engineering: The Process (3:00)
Genetic Cassettes (0:58)
Genetic Libraries & Methods of Inciting Mutation (1:17)
Regulation & Commercialism (1:22)
1940s Pesticides (2:12)
Consequences of Pesticides (2:44)
Beneficial Promises of Genetic Engineering (1:32)
Financial Infeasibility of Aid to Developing Countries & Exploitation of Resources (3:04)
Biotech Investments in Seed Industry (2:55)
"Green" Advertising (0:54)
Profitability of Herbicide-Resistant Plants & Herbicide Industry (2:48)
Campbell's Soup & Super Tomatoes (2:30)
Commercial Reality v. Idealism (0:31)
Incident of Harmful Crop Variety & Market Ban (2:10)
"A Fruit That's Always in Season" (0:37)
Regulating the Biotech Industry (2:54)
Cautionary Tale: Risks of Irresponsible Genetic Breeding (2:28)
Incalculable Effects on Large Ecological Systems (1:38)
Challenges of Ecological Studies (1:22)
Biotech Hazarding (2:11)
Government Restriction & Irresponsible Testing in Developing Countries (1:52)
Secrecy, Environmental Impact, & Green Economics (2:07)
Credits: Guess What's Coming to Dinner (1:13)
Videorecording number
48726 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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