[ShareTompkins] Free online Panel Discussion on Pros and Cons of GE Food -- OCT 14 at 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. CDT

[A Wilson]

Note: A longer version of this article was published October 10 in

The Fairfield Weekly Reader, Fairfield Iowa.





Des Moines Register Gets the Jump on World Food Prize Events with  
Panel Discussion on Pros and Cons of GE Food



Prompted by the controversy surrounding the awarding of the 2013 World  
Food Prize to three pioneers of the GE food venture (including an  
Executive Vice President of Monsanto and a founder of Syngenta  
Biotechnology, Inc.), the Des Moines Register will present a panel  
discussion on the pros and cons of genetically engineered crops the  
day before the Food Prize activities commence.

One of the panelists explaining the risks of GE foods will be public  
interest attorney Steven Druker, Executive Director of the Iowa-based  
Alliance for Bio-Integrity. Another will be Ron Rosmann, an organic  
farmer. There will be six panelists in all.

Commenting on the event, Druker notes: “It appears that the Register  
felt the need for a more balanced discussion than would have occurred  
solely within the confines of the Prize Week official activities.”

The event will be free and open to the public. It will go from 4 p.m.  
until 5 p.m. CDT on Oct. 14 at the Cowles-Kruidenier Auditorium at the  
State Historical Museum in Des Moines – and will be streamed live from  
the Register’s website.   The link is: www.DesMoinesRegister.com/Registerlivevideo

Druker states: “Through the live stream, people everywhere can learn  
key facts that have long been suppressed – and gain a fuller  
understanding of the risks of GE foods than they’ll be able to receive  
from the World Food Prize festivities.”

The other panel members will be:

Bill Horan: A partner at Horan Brothers Agricultural Enterprises and a  
past chairman of the Iowa Corn Growers Association.

Ruth MacDonald: Professor and chairwoman of the Department of Food  
Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University.

Gary Munkvold: Professor of seed science at Iowa State University.

Micheal Owen: Professor of agronomy and weed management Extension  
specialist at Iowa State University and associate chairman of the  
agronomy department. (He has pointed out some environmental problems  
that could arise in connection with some GE crops.) 
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