Over the past century, worldwide consumption of food-animal products such as meat, milk, and eggs has steadily grown due to increases in global population and per capita income that fuel demand for ...

A sliced seedless watermelon on a wooden board - Natalia Semenova/Getty Images Many people wonder how seedless fruit can possibly be made, if not by genetic modification. However, in reality, seedless ...

It refers to an organism whose genetic material has been altered in the laboratory using genetic engineering techniques such as recombinant DNA technology and reproductive cloning. These processes are ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. With a growing human population and rising living standards, demand for animal-derived ...