Known as the Sensible Environmentalist, Dr. Patrick Moore is the co-founder of Greenpeace and has been a leader in the international environmental movement for over forty years.
From pesticides to fertilizer to genetic modification, Dr. Moore will make the case for using science and technology to improve the nutrition and productivity of our food production systems. While Greenpeace and their allies denounce advances in genetics that could end malnutrition around the world, over 250,000 children go blind each year from vitamin A deficiency. The solution to this problem, genetically modified Golden Rice, has been available for over a decade, yet the anti-GMO campaigns have prevented its introduction. This and many other aspects of agricultural production show us that we can feed 9 billion people if we take advantage of the knowledge we already possess.
Sponsor include: Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, Ag-West Bio, Genome Prairie, SaskCanola, the JSGS and the U of S Global Institute for Water Security, Global Institute for Food Security, College of Agriculture and Bioresources and the School of Environment and Sustainability
From pesticides to fertilizer to genetic modification, Dr. Moore will make the case for using science and technology to improve the nutrition and productivity of our food production systems. While Greenpeace and their allies denounce advances in genetics that could end malnutrition around the world, over 250,000 children go blind each year from vitamin A deficiency. The solution to this problem, genetically modified Golden Rice, has been available for over a decade, yet the anti-GMO campaigns have prevented its introduction. This and many other aspects of agricultural production show us that we can feed 9 billion people if we take advantage of the knowledge we already possess.
Sponsor include: Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers, Ag-West Bio, Genome Prairie, SaskCanola, the JSGS and the U of S Global Institute for Water Security, Global Institute for Food Security, College of Agriculture and Bioresources and the School of Environment and Sustainability
Event Details
- When:
- Time:
- 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM CST
- Location:
- Neatby Timlin Theatre (Arts 241)