Agent Orange, Monsanto, and a Little Clarificiation
On Tuesday I gave a talk at Florida State College at Jacksonville entitled "The Future of Food: Feeding More People with Less". The talk described the challenges to modern agriculture, the need for conservation, improved production practices (including low-input/organic ag) and new genetics from breeding. One of the key facets was transgenic technology to complement other improvements. There was one person in attendance that was not a student, but a guy from the community that thought the topic was interesting. As soon as I got into the GMO part of the lecture he began being disruptive. I usually invite interaction, but his objections were relatively constant. As usual, they were dogmatic and uninformed, tying nicely to the propaganda lines of the anti-GMO interests. For my lecture I held up glyphosate resistance as a successful implementation of transgenics in agriculture. Here a relatively innocuous chemical displaces others that are more danger...