GM Foods: The Eco-Friendly Choice?
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/22/A_Short_History_of_the_American_Stomach Author Fred Kaufman discusses the social, cultural and economic impacts of America's ever-increasing shift towards genetically modified foods. ----- A Short History of the American Stomach with Fred Kaufman. Kaufman takes us on a raucous, witty and fact-fill... Read more
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- -: GM Foods: The Eco-Friendly Choice?
March 21, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/22/A_Short_History_of_the_American_Stomach Author Fred Kaufman discusses the social, cultural and economic impacts of America's ever-increasing shift towards genetically modified foods. ----- A Short History of the American Stomach with Fred Kaufman. ...
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- -: Open Source Food and Genetic Engineering - Michael Pollan
May 14, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/05/Michael_Pollan_Deep_Agriculture "The real key to genetic engineering is control of intellectual property of the food crops that we depend on," says author Michael Pollan of companies like Monsanto. He advocates an open source GE model. ----- Farming...
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- -: Saving Lives with Designer Babies? - Alan Trounson
August 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/30/Genetic_Testing_The_Ultimate_Matchmaker Dr. Alan Trounson discusses the ethics of genetically selecting offspring, highlighting a case where parents wanted to have another child to save their first one's life. He argues that situations like this are e...
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- -: Genetic Engineering Not a New Science - Pamela Ronald
August 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/28/Pamela_Ronald_and_Raoul_Adamchak_The_Food_of_the_Future Pamela Ronald, professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis, explains that although there is a stigma around the term, genetic engineering has been around for thousands of ...
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- -: Organ Farms? Super-Predators? Cloning Myths, Debunked
March 13, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/07/How_to_Defeat_Your_Own_Clone Kyle Kurpinski and Terry Johnson, authors of How to Defeat Your Own Clone, discuss common misconceptions about genetic engineering. Kurpinski debunks the idea that genetic engineering will lead to super-predators, while Jo...
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- -: Can the Earth Feed a Population of 9 Billion People?
April 16, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/22/Matt_Ridley_Deep_Optimism Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, looks at past rates of food production to explain why it should eventually be possible to produce enough food to feed a global population of 9 billion people. ----- Via trade an...
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- -: Using Hydroponics to Curb Global Hunger
August 15, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/31/Singularity_Universitys_Rob_Nail Rob Nail, associate founder and COO of Singularity University, showcases a project to end world famine, called Agropolis. Nail discusses the role the project plays in advancing genetic engineering in an environmentally...
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