Index 25
Renewable Fuel Standard, 9
research grants, – 6
reservoirs, – 4 , 6
resistance
antibiotics and, 8 , 92 – 95 , 228
herbicides and, 9 – 200
pesticides and, 95 – 9 ,
99 – 200
revisionist science, 6 –
rice, breeding of, 05
The Road to Wigan Pier (Orwell),
4 , 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 4
Roosevelt, Theodore, 92 , 49
Roundup herbicide, 29 – 0 ,
9 – 98. See also glyphosate
rubber, 09 , 20
Russia, 2 – 26
Rwanda, – 2
safaris, 4 – 46
safety. See food safety
Sagan, Carl, 6 , 08 , 20 , 2 8
Saginaw River, 205
Salmonella, 54 , 59 – 60 , 6
salt, - 4 , 68 , 4 - 6 , 9 , 85 , 90 ,
95 , 24 , 244
Salt, Sugar, Fat (Moss), 5
Salvador, Ricardo, 4
Sandel, Michael, 2
Sanders, Bernie, 2 4
science
basic research and, 09 – 0
Bayh-Dole Act and, 0 –
early advances from, 08 – 09
food safety and, 62 – 64
funding for, – 6
Land-Grant Act and, 06 – 0
patents and, 0
population growth and, 05 – 06
power and, 20 – 2
rejecting findings of, 8 – 20
reliance on, 9 – 20
role of, 04 – 05
seed collection and, 2 – 24
specialization and, 4
Science magazine, – 8
Science- The Endless Frontier (Bush),
09 – 0
scientific method, 08 , 6 –
seed collections, 24 – 26
seed companies, patents and,
26 – 29
seeds, 24 – 29
self-interest, 5 – 6
Serengeti, 4
shareholders, responsibility to, 94
Shiga toxin, 54
shrimp, 84
Shuanghui International Holdings,
8 – 9
Silent Spring (Carson), 6 , 96
Simon, Julian, 06
Sims, Laura, 6 – 68
Sinclair, Upton, 48 – 49
Smith, Adam, 5 – 6 , 8 , 2 , , 4
Smithfield Foods, 6 , 8 , 6
SNAP. See Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program
snow in July, 49 – 50
social norms
changing in America, 96 – 00
food production in America and,
89 – 94
water supplies and, 8 – 8
soils, 68 – 0 , 20 – 202
South Africa, 4 – 46
soybeans, 9 , 225
space, 2 – 2 2 , 2 9 – 240
special interest groups, 9 – 94