How are genetically engineered crops affecting food?

How are genetically engineered crops affecting agriculture and the food supply? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and how they are changing the landscape of food and farming. An estimated 70 percent of processed foods contain genetically engineered ingredients. And more than 270,000 organic farmers filed a lawsuit against Monsanto this year for the right to keep a portion of the world food supply organic. So what do we need to know about how GMOs are affecting farmers and consumers? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Eric Holt-Gimenez, executive director of Food First and author of Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice

 Ignacio Chapela, associate professor of microbial ecology at UC Berkeley

 Mike Ludwig, Truthout reporter who covers the biotech industry

 Jim Gerritsen, organic seed farmer in northern Maine and one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Monsanto

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Your Call 041008 Bill McKibben, Environmentalist

What can we do to save the environment?  On the next Your Call, we welcome environmentalist Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future and The Bill McKibben Reader.  For nearly three decades, McKibben has written about our relationship with the natural world.  He wrote The End of Nature, the first book about climate change, back in 1989.  How much time do we have left, and what changes are necessary?  It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:

Bill McKibben in Ripton, Vermont

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering. He is the author of The Bill McKibben Reader, a collection of 44 essays written for various publications over the past 25 years.

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