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GMO: Your Right To Know

October 30, 2012Full Showagribusiness, california, center For Environmental Health, charles margulis, genetically modified organisms, gmoAlex Wise

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Like it or not, genetically engineered foods make up a significant portion of our nation’s food supply. Approximately ninety-three percent of all U.S. soy and canola and eighty-six percent of our corn are genetically modified. There are informed positions on both sides of the debate around genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, pertaining to the health and long-term safety of these food products. But many assert that as long as this debate still rages, consumers deserve to know whether they’re eating and serving foods that have been genetically modified.

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Designer Genes Without Labels: The Fight For GMO Transparency

April 3, 2012Full Showcenter For Environmental Health, charles margulis, genetically modified organisms, gmo, GreenpeaceAlex Wise

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Have you ever tasted a strawberry whose DNA was altered to include fish genes? In the United States, genetically modified foods are not generally labeled as such. This week’s guest on Sea Change Radio is Charles Margulis, Communications and Food Program Director at the Center for Environmental Health and former lead for Greenpeace’s Genetic Engineering Campaign. Margulis believes that American consumers have the right to know when they are eating genetically modified organisms, or, as he calls them, unlabeled experimental foods. Listen as he speaks with host Alex Wise about the rise of the GMO, the movement pushing for more regulation of GMOs, and the substantial resistance that proponents of GMO labeling have encountered.

Sage & Spirit: Talking With John Perry Barlow and Stewart Brand

October 26, 2010Full Showelectronic frontier foundation, genetically modified organisms, global business network, grateful dead lyricist, john perry barlow, long now foundation, merry prankster, nuclear energy, stewart brand, the well, whole earth, whole earth catalog, whole earth disciplineAlex Wise

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Where did conservation and America’s conservative movement part ways? Is the flight to the cities in the developing world a positive phenomenon? Has the population bomb been defused? This week on Sea Change Radio, we discuss these topics and more with two iconic sages of the green movement – Grateful Dead lyricist and green entrepreneur, John Perry Barlow along with author, ecologist and former Merry Prankster, Stewart Brand.Read the show transcript

Genetically Modified Organisms: Part II of our discussion with Stewart Brand

August 11, 2010Full Showgenetically modified organisms, global business network, gmo, long now foundation, nuclear energy, stewart brand, the well, whole earth, whole earth catalog, whole earth disciplineAlex Wise

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In Part I of Alex Wise‘s Sea Change Radio conversation with Stewart Brand, Brand makes his case for expanding nuclear energy. In Part II, Brand takes an unexpected position on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), one which calls into question fundamental assumptions that underlie environmentalism itself. Stewart Brand is an American writer best known as the editor of the Whole Earth Catalog. He founded a number of organizations including The WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation. His most recent book is Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto. Other recommended reading on plant breeding by Stewart Brand includes Noel Kingsbury’s Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding.