Cummings, Claire Hope. Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds.(Brief article)(Book review)

* Cummings, Claire Hope. Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds. Beacon, dist. by Houghton. Mar. 2008. c.240p, index. ISBN 978-0-8070-8580-6. $24.95. SCI

Seeds grow up to be many fundamental things: food, fiber for clothing, and lumber for houses. These plants also filter our air as they release oxygen. That plants are fundamental to our existence on this planet seems obvious, yet as journalist and former environmental lawyer Cummings argues here, genetically engineered plants seriously threaten the world's seed supply and the future existence of plants. Cummings carefully builds her arguments against genetically modified …