Panel: Social Conflict, Trade disputes, and Genetically modified Organisms Revisited

Advances in the genetic modification of organisms and their application to agriculture and other human activities are considered great advances in human progress by many, while others have voiced grave concerns. Iowa State faculty and administrators will discuss the academic debate, social protests, and trade disputes generated by the disagreement: Richard Ross, College of Agriculture; John Obrycki, Entomology; Gary Munkvold, Plant Pathology: Lorna Michael Butler, Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture, Dermot Hayes, Economics; with Colin Scanes, interim head of the Plant Sicences Institute, will moderate.