Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat

by Rowell, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781853839320
• ISBN10: 1853839329
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This text argues that the policies pursued by developing countries will be crucial in determining the progress of climate change. Many are industrializing rapidly and the largest, particularly China and India, could have an impact at least as significant

Author Biography

Andy Rowell is a freelance writer and investigative journalist with over 12 years' experience on environmental, food, health and globalization issues

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Acronyms and Abbreviations	x
Chapter 1 Introduction	1	(8)
Chapter 2 Safe to Eat	9	(23)
BSE - a distant memory or living nightmare?	9	(3)
Relaxing the rules?	12	(3)
The only certainty is uncertainty	15	(4)
The first BSE outbreak	19	(2)
The Phillips Inquiry	21	(2)
MAFF - the 'Ministry of Truth'	23	(3)
Cover-up and censorship?	26	(1)
A slow policy of sedation	27	(1)
The Southwood Committee	28	(2)
Short-term economics continue to overrule long-term health	30	(2)
Chapter 3 Treated with Derision	32	(23)
Dr Alan Dickinson	32	(4)
Dr Tim Holt	36	(3)
Dr Helen Grant	39	(2)
Professor Richard Lacey	41	(3)
Dr Stephen Dealler	44	(3)
Dr Harash Narang	47	(4)
Mark Purdey	51	(4)
Chapter 4 Silent Spread	55	(23)
Professor Fred Brown	55	(8)
Modelling your way into a mess	63	(2)
Small-holders speak out	65	(4)
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate	69	(3)
The not-so-public, public enquiries	72	(2)
Waste not, want not	74	(4)
Chapter 5 Hot Potato	78	(25)
Arpad Pusztai	79	(5)
The Con A controversy	84	(2)
The 150 seconds that changed the GM debate	86	(1)
The riddle of the Rowett	87	(5)
Why were Pusztai's results so threatening?	92	(5)
The Audit	97	(6)
Chapter 6 The 'Star Chamber'	103	(21)
The Royal Society	103	(6)
The House of Commons Select Committee	109	(4)
The Royal Society Working Group	113	(1)
The Lancet	114	(6)
The Royal Society revisited	120	(4)
Chapter 7 Stars in their Eyes	124	(25)
The USA	125	(5)
StarLinkTM	130	(8)
Europe	138	(7)
Substantial equivalence	145	(4)
Chapter 8 Immoral Maize	149	(21)
A virtual world	156	(4)
The fall-out continues	160	(2)
Statements for and against	162	(1)
When is a retraction not a retraction?	163	(4)
Is GM contamination beneficial?	167	(3)
Chapter 9 Science for Sale	170	(17)
Realigning the Research Councils	176	(3)
What commercialization means for science	179	(2)
Corruption of integrity	181	(4)
The degradation of science	185	(2)
Chapter 10 Whitehall Whitewash	187	(12)
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	187	(3)
The Food Standards Agency	190	(9)
Chapter 11 Towards Safe Food and Public Interest Science	199	(21)
Towards safe and sustainable food	199	(15)
Public interest science	214	(6)
Notes	220	(41)
Index	261