With John Losey and Ignacio Chapela: The science of biology is being transformed by corporations who sponsor a new field of scientific research and industrial production called biotechnology. The biotech industry claims their products are safe and genetically engineered corn and soy area already grown all across the US. Rice wheat and potatoes are scheduled to follow soon.
John Losey discovered that Monarch butterfly caterpillars can die when they eat pollen from engineered corn plants. The industry waged an unsuccessful campaign to suppress his report.
Ignacio Chapela found that engineered corn has already invaded the cradle of corn in Oaxaca, Mexico. A campaign was begun to discredit him and he was denied tenure in spite of the full support of his colleagues. Two years after this event the University of California, Berkeley, reversed its 2003 rejection of tenure and hired Chapela as regular member of the faculty.
The scientists were recorded at UC Berkeley. The event, The Pulse of Scientific Freedom in the Age of Biotechnology, was held in December of 2003.
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