<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Note: A longer version of this article was
published October 10 in <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The Fairfield Weekly Reader, Fairfield Iowa. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Des Moines Register Gets the Jump on World Food Prize
Events with Panel Discussion on Pros and Cons of GE Food<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p>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 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Des Moines Register</i> will present a panel
discussion on the pros and cons of genetically engineered crops the day before
the Food Prize activities commence. </p><p>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p>Commenting on the event, Druker notes: “It appears that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Register</i> felt the need for a more
balanced discussion than would have occurred solely within the confines of the
Prize Week official activities.” </p><p><b>The</b><b> e</b><b>vent 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. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><b> </b></span><b>The link is: </b><span style="mso-field-code:"HYPERLINK \0022http\:\/\/www\.DesMoinesRegister\.com\/Registerlivevideo\0022 \\t \0022_blank\0022""><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><a href="http://www.DesMoinesRegister.com/Registerlivevideo">www.DesMoinesRegister.com/Registerlivevideo</a></b></span></span> </p><p>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.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p>The other panel members will be:</p><p><b>Bill Horan:</b> A partner at Horan Brothers Agricultural Enterprises and
a past chairman of the Iowa Corn Growers Association.</p><p><b>Ruth MacDonald:</b> Professor and chairwoman of the Department of Food
Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University.</p><p><b>Gary Munkvold:</b> Professor of seed science at Iowa State University.</p><p><b>Micheal Owen: </b>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.) </p>
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