Justice Begins with Seeds- A Postmordem
Last month I submitted a proposal to present a workshop at Justice Begins with Seeds, an anti-GMO conference to be held in Seattle Washington. The conference asked for proposals, I submitted an "Ask a Scientist" Q&A forum, and Anastasia Bodnar, Jon Entine and I were prepared to fly out and attend the conference, potentially at great expense. The proposal was purely educational. Last week I posted that I had heard nothing from the organizers. I sent them a note and received a timely reply from Miguel Robles, the person I originally contacted at the organization. Miguel has always been kind and supportive. He told me that the reason we were not invited to present a workshop was not about GMO per se, but that the "conference is focusing particularly on the global social-economic-political repercussions of genetic engineering." He then went on to the talking points, mostly about how this is all about money, destruction of small farms, etc. He made a claim