Understanding GMOs and the Future of Food

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🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Investigate the complications, misinformation, passion and confusion around GMOs, sustainable farming, and the future of food, with Neil Tyson, Chuck Nice, plant geneticist Pamela Ronald, and Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of “Food Evolution” which Neil narrates. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk, and I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:27.0	And I'm also the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.
0:32.0	And I've got with me my coach Chuck Nice.
0:34.0	Hey!
0:35.0	Chuck and Baby!
0:36.0	I was tweeting in Chuck Nice comic.
0:37.0	That's right!
0:38.0	That Chuck Nice comic.
0:39.0	That's seeing weird places, but the weird fun places all the time on TV.
0:43.0	Yes, exactly.
0:44.0	That's just show up in place.
0:45.0	That's pretty much my whole career.
0:47.0	Weird fun places on TV.
0:48.0	It's like, where's Waldo?
0:49.0	It's like, we're Chuck today.
0:51.0	Exactly.
0:52.0	So today, we're talking about the science of GMOs.
0:55.0	Wow.
0:56.0	Wow.
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