The Project’s scientists are available to discuss science, food and agriculture and their impacts on health and the environment. Contact us to arrange an interview. Below are some recent radio interviews.
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The Biosecurity Myth That Is Destroying Small Farming.
On January 17th 2021 Jonathan Latham, Executive Director of the Project was interviewed by Progressive Radio Host Derrick Jensen of Resistance Radio. You can hear the interview about small farms and biosecurity myths at: https://prn.fm/resistance-radio-guest-jonathan-r-latham-5/
[Talking Papers] A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This is an audio version of the paper titled “A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 Pandemic” – by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD. To listen to the entire paper read out, you can go to Talking Papers: https://soundcloud.com/talkingpapers/proposed-origin-for-sarscov2.
Jonathan Latham on Background Briefing with Ian Masters: Investigating the Origins of the Covid-19 Virus
Jonathan Latham discusses the coincidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has a Level 2 lab next door to the Wuhan “Wet” market and a BSL-4 lab eight miles from where the outbreak began. That Level 4 lab was working with EcoHealth Alliance capturing and identifying viruses in bats, some very similar to Covid-19. And while there is no suggestion of genetic engineering for a bioweapon, there were warnings in State Department cables of lax containment procedures at the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s BSL-4 lab. But as Trump tries to heap blame on China to distract from his unconscionable failures, the real villains responsible for these zoonotic leaps from animals to humans are the intrusions into nature caused by the Palm Oil industry which eradicates rainforests to grow a product that should be banned as an additive in food. And compounding this, as factory farms pen in animals shot full of antibiotics, new strains of swine flu and avian flu flourish, producing drug resistant viruses that can cause similar pandemics. Listen at: https://soundcloud.com/user-830442635/bbriefing-2020-04-29a-jonathan-latham
Derrick Jensen interviews Jonathan Latham on Resistance Radio about manipulation of EU pesticide testing by ILSI and other industry lobbyists.
Derrick Jensen interviews Jonathan Latham on Resistance Radio about the Gates Foundation and Cornell’s Ceres2030 project.
In this interview Dr. Jonathan Latham discusses Bill Gates and his grand plans for agriculture. It follows our exposé on Cornell’s Ceres2030 project, which is funded by the Gates Foundation. http://prn.fm/resistance-radio-guest-jonathan-r-latham/
James Corbett interviews Jonathan Latham about unintended DNA insertion in gene edited animals
Dr. Jonathan Latham was interviewed in October 2019 about the two stories we recently broke on gene editing: (1) that cows produced by Recombinetics have antibiotic resistance genes in them (which Recombinetics had no idea were there); And (2) that genomes edited by standard methods can acquire unintended and unsuspected DNA from E. Coli, from cattle, and from goats. This extra DNA can originate from cell culture media (cattle and goat) and genomic DNA co-purified with plasmid DNA (E.coli). https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1486-jonathan-latham-on-gene-editing/
Derrick Jensen interviews Jonathan Latham on Resistance Radio about the Poison Papers, June 2018
Scientific innovation and public protection depends on regulation. Regulation at government agencies such as the EPA has an undeserved aura of science and rigour that is exposed in this fascinating extended (51 minute) interview. https://resistanceradioprn.podbean.com/e/resistance-radio-jonathan-r-latham-061718/
Jonathan Latham interviewed about the Poison Papers by Peter B. Collins, June 2018
Based on the newly-released Poison Papers, Dr. Jonathan Latham of Independent Science News slams the EPA and its predecessors. Latham is also executive director of the Bioscience Resource Project, which has released a huge trove of documents from industries and regulators, the Poison Papers here.
We open with a discussion of recent moves by Trump’s EPA under Scott Pruitt, which just announced very narrow enforcement of 2016’s updates of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. Latham is dismissive, saying the EPA “already had its agenda for not doing anything”, and that EPA “has never done its job”.
This leads to his description of the Poison Papers, which date to 1920 and show that pattern of weak regulation, unchanged by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. We walk through searches for “Agent Orange” and “glyphosate”, and he comments on the range of documents in the collection.
Latham offers a sweeping indictment of EPA and regulation of toxic chemicals in general, describing a game where the industries are always outraged at “over-reach” and EPA enables the industries while appearing to regulate them. He sees little difference between Democrats who champion science as the basis of regulation and Republicans who promote corporate profits over sensible regulation. https://www.peterbcollins.com/2018/06/11/in-depth-interview-dr-jonathan-latham-exposes-the-game-epa-plays-with-industries-it-regulates/
Newly Released Documents Shed Light on Years of Environmental Lies on July 31, 2017
Todd Zwillich of WNYC interviews Dr Jonathan Latham about the politics of chemical regulation and the revelations of the Poison Papers (7 minutes) http://www.wnyc.org/story/poison-papers-reveal-all/
The Future and The Food Movement on Your Own Health and Fitness on November 16, 2016
In this one hour interview, Project Exec. Director Jonathan Latham discusses the future and the food movement with Jeffry Fawcett, PhD on the radio show: Your Own Health And Fitness. How is the food movement becoming the political alternative to neoliberalism? What are the threats to the food movement? How it might be co-opted and by who?
Jonathan Latham Interviewed on the Julianna Forlano Show on April 20, 2015
In this wide-ranging hour long interview with call-in questions, Dr. Latham discusses topics from GMOs and farming systems to human disease genes to the politics of science and the economy.
GMOs, Control of the Food System, and Healthy Ways to Feed the World
In Dr. Latham’s second interview with Kenny Jones (18 March 2013 on Talk Radio Europe) you can listen to the Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project give his view of the reality of the “food crisis” and on the many positive alternatives to GMOs and industrial agriculture. The interview starts with an overview of how GMOs might appear, in the short term, to benefit those farmers who choose to use insecticides and herbicides, rather than adopt agroecological or organic techniques. Dr. Latham and Mr. Jones then discuss how the combination of GMOs, patents on life, and the consolidation of seed and chemical companies gives enormous control over agriculture and the food supply to just a handful of corporations. They also discuss where the idea of a world-wide “food crisis” comes from and who benefits from the belief that there is a food shortage and that industrial agriculture is more productive than other alternatives. In response to the question, “Are GMOs a good technology, just in the wrong hands?”, Dr. Latham points out some of the many unresolved scientific and safety issues surrounding GMOs. Lastly they discuss SRI and other high yielding and ecologically sound systems that can contribute to a healthy global food and farming system, one that supports cultural and biological diversity and does not rely on GMOs, herbicides, artificial fertilizers, and other expensive and polluting inputs. The interview is available at: www.talkradioeurope.com/clients/jlatham2.mp3
Who needs GE Foods and Why? And Just How Safe are They?
In Dr. Latham’s interview on 11 March 2013 with Kenny Jones on Talk Radio Europe, you can listen to the Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project give his view of the impact genetically engineered (GE) seeds on food and farming and the inadequacies of food safety regulation. Interview questions include who needs GE organisms? Why do farmer’s grow GE seeds? What are the implications of GE seeds for food and seed prices? And what are the safety implications of the ‘Hidden’ Viral Gene VI DNA found in the majority of genetically engineered plants? Listen to this important interview at the following mp3 link: www.talkradioeurope.com/clients/latham.mp3
Big Conservation Groups Rife with Corporate Executives
On 28 March 2012, Jonathan Latham was interviewed on Pacifica’s Uprising radio show about the Project article “Way beyond Greenwashing: Have Corporations Captured Big Conservation?” Hear the interview at: Big Conservation Groups Rife With Corporate Executives.
Why We Get Sick—Debating the Genetic vs. Environmental Causes of Diseases
“A lively debate is shaping up between environmentalists and geneticists. Environmentalists, pointing to an important new study, say that deviations from the genetic norm are too small to matter in determining, for example, whether or not you will be diabetic. If true, this must make environmental causes, like what you eat, proportionally much more important. Genetic medicine begs–loudly!–to differ. We hear from both sides.”
Guests:
Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., Executive Director, Bioscience Resource Project
Stanley Nelson, M.D., Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, Director of the UCLA DNA Microarray Facility, and Co-Director of the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
