GENETICALLY MODIFY FOOD? Debates about #food always seem to get people worked up with much passion and high emotion. Many people look at the food they eat not just as a life style choice or a health choice. #Food , it seems, is often an expression of who they are as people. This is the introduction I made with +John Donvan for the+Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates : "GENETICALLY MODIFY FOOD". Debaters included: Robert Fraley Executive VP & Chief Technology Officer, +Monsanto Company ; Alison Van Eenennaam, #Genomics and #Biotechnology Researcher,+UC Davis ; Charles Benbrook, Research Professor, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources; Margaret Mellon, Science Policy Consultant & Fmr. Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists.
Our moderator was of course, John Donvan Author & Correspondent for +ABC News Watch the full #IQ2US debate here: http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/1161-genetically-modify-food
#tbt #tbthursday #GMO #gmofree #GeneticallyModifiedFood