GMO: Label or Not? (10/25/12)

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🗓️ 26 October 2012

⏱️ 71 minutes

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GMO: Label or Not? Jesus Arredondo, Principal and Founder, Advantage Government Consulting LLC Kent Bradford, Ph.D., Director of the Seed Biotechnology Center, University of California, Davis Ken Cook, President, Environmental Working Group Jessica Lundberg, Lundberg Family Farms Greg Dalton, Founder of Climate One, Moderator Proposition 37 on the upcoming California ballot is a high-stakes food fight with national implications. The measure would bring California, and by extension the United States, in line with the various GMO disclosure requirements already in place in Europe, Australia and Japan. Advocates for GMO labeling say consumers have a right to know if they are eating "Frankenfood." Food companies, led by Monsanto, Cargill, and General Mills, along with other critics, say disclosure would be misleading and alarm consumers. A Reuters story recently reported the proposition “could upend the U.S. food business from farm to fork if it prompts makers of popular foods to dump GMO ingredients.” What do we know about the safety of food with GMO ingredients? How would labeling impact the national food system? How much would it cost? Polls indicate voters favor GMO disclosure, but opponents, led by Monsanto, have a hefty war chest. Join a lively debate about one of the most controversial issues in the upcoming election. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on October 25, 2012 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?
0:05.0	Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:11.4	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,
0:15.2	Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:18.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and
0:21.9	culture, Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter. It's our future.
0:27.6	It's time to come together. Welcome to Climate One and conversation about America's energy,
0:32.6	economy, and environment. I'm Greg Dalton. Today we're discussing a proposition on the upcoming
0:37.0	California ballot to label genetically engineered food, genetically modified environment. I'm Greg Dalton. Today we're discussing a proposition on the upcoming California
0:37.6	ballot to label genetically engineered food. Genetically modified organisms or GMOs were
0:43.7	introduced to the United States food system in the mid-1990s. And now, an estimated 70%
0:49.1	of package foods sold in this country contains some genetically altered ingredients. Proposition 37 would require food
0:56.8	sold in California to carry a label if it contains just under 1% of GMO. Supporters say consumers
1:03.6	have a right to know what's in their food and that GMOs have not been adequately tested.
1:08.9	Opponents say tests have proven GMOs to be safe, and labeling will drive up food prices.
1:14.6	Over the next hour, we'll sink our teeth into GMOs with our audience at the Commonwealth
1:18.4	Club and two guests on each side of the debate.
1:21.6	Jesus Aradondo is principal and founder of Advantage Government Consulting in Sacramento.
1:27.3	Kent Bradford is director of the Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis.
1:32.5	Ken Cook is president of the Environmental Working Group and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.,
1:38.6	and Jessica Lundberg is with Lundberg Family Farms, which grows rice up near Chico.
1:44.3	Please welcome them to Climate 1.
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