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Bioscience Resource Project News and Views
Jonathan Latham Speaks at Organic Conference in Guelph, Ontario on Jan 27, 2017
Jonathan Latham, Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project, is speaking during the Keynote Forum of the 2017 Guelph Organic Conference, along with Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) (Ottawa); Rene Van Acker, PhD – Crop-weed Ecologist and Dean, Ontario Agriculture College (Guelph); and Dianne Dowling – Organic Dairy Farmer and President of the National Farmers Union (NFU) Local 316 (Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox-Addington).
The Forum is entitled: What is the future of genetic engineering? It is being held on
For more information about the Forum go to: http://guelphorganicconf.ca/sessions/keynote-forum-what-is-the-future-of-genetic-engineering/
Radio Interview with Jonathan Latham: The Food Movement Is Unstoppable
In this one hour interview, Project Executive Director Jonathan Latham discusses the future and the food movement. He discusses how the food movement is becoming the political alternative to neoliberalism. The discussion moves to ask what are the threats to it? How it might be co-opted and by who?
Listen here: https://bioscienceresource.org/the-food-movement-is-unstoppable/
Overkill: The Effects of GMO Herbicide Tolerance Traits on Human Health and the Environment, talk by Jonathan Latham
Tomorrow is unmissable Wednesday! The latest installment of the student-led class at Cornell: Overkill: The Effects of GMO Herbicide Tolerance Traits on Human Health and the Environment, is a talk by Jonathan Latham, PhD, Executive Director of The Bioscience Resource Project.
Time and place: 7pm in The Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (note the new venue).
Free and Open to All, with Free Parking near Anabel Taylor Hall.
Link to last week’s fabulous discussion with the unique and incomparable Michael Hansen of the Consumers Union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsVupnT0kY&feature=youtu.be
More about GMO debate and GMO course and link to past talks: http://www.gmowtf.com/
Cornell Faculty Refuse to Defend GMO Crops
Published today (Tues. 4th Oct 2016) on Independent Science News, “Cornell Faculty Refuse to Defend GMO Crops,” was written by Jonathan Latham, PhD.
Despite a long list of invitations: to Cornell faculty, to Dean of Agriculture Kathryn Boor, to the Cornell Alliance for Science, to various academic GMO boosters, and to the chief technology officer of Monsanto, no one can be found to debate Michael Hansen of Consumers Union and myself at Cornell this coming Wednesday night (Oct 5th, 7pm). Why, we can ask, will no one openly debate the science of GMOs? Are GMO crops that indefensible?
Read the full article at: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/un-sustainable-farming/cornell-faculty-refuse-to-defend-gmo-crops/
PRESS RELEASE: NY FARMERS CALL FOR CORNELL TO EVICT “THE ALLIANCE FOR SCIENCE”:
Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable
Published on Tuesday, Sept 20th 2016 by Independent Science News,
“Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable” was written by By Jonathan Latham, PhD.
Synopsis: The food movement is increasingly a powerful force all over the globe. This article identifies the key social and political components that define it and distinguish it from other social movements. These features include a low barrier to entry and broad social inclusiveness as well as synergisms between previously disparate strands of social thought, such as animal welfare and environmentalism. This unification of ideas—and the coherence of the food movement in general—is explained as the result of its adoption of a radical philosophy that rejects the major principles of ‘enlightenment’ thought. This rejection sets the scene for a major clash of ideas with governments and commerce.
The essence of this philosophy is that the food movement conceives the proper relations between organisms (including among humans) as being synergistic rather than adversarial and as being largely mediated through food (i.e. chemical energy). Importantly, it is no coincidence that a philosophy which rejects divisiveness, violence, and oppression (and in fact rejects all ideology) originates from the grassroots. The food movement therefore conceptualizes our ecological and social and climate crises as all aspects of a larger piece and from this follow solutions that are rational and coherent. Since neither governments nor the traditional alternatives are seen as having much apparently to offer, this now places the food movement in pole position. Its rapid progress and some impressive victories are thus early evidence of how opposition to the status quo is coalescing around food…..
To read the full Independent Science News article go to: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/why-the-food-movement-is-unstoppable/
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