[Video]: Monsters, Miracles, and the Politics of Genetic Engineering

From Save Kauai Farms

In his Food for Thought lecture below, Ron Herring, professor of government and the director of the Program on Nature and Development at Cornell University, New York, discusses how the genetic engineering of crops has become a proxy for much larger ideological and political debates. He explores the consequences of limiting this technology for poverty alleviation, global trade, and the environment.