EXOGENOUS SEMIOTIC ENTROPY 

                     Herbicide Glyphosate (Roundup)

                                    Food Chain Radio Show #920

                                     May 18, 2013 • Sat 9AM Pacific

*********                       Michael Olson hosts:   Stephanie Seneff, PhD, Senior Research Scientist

                                         from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

                                          & Anthony Samsel, PhD and Independent Scientist and Consultant

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Is the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) safe to eat?

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Is glyphosate (Roundup) safe to eat? *

Yes

No

I don't know

I recently sat in on a Food Dialogues panel discussion titled “The Straight Story on Biotech in Agriculture: The Media and its Impact on Consumers.” 

http://www.fooddialogues.com/chicago-food-dialogues/bio-conference

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This discussion, which took place in Chicago at the International Bio convention in front of an audience of biotech people from biotech companies like Monsanto and DuPont, quickly became a tug of words between organic and conventional agriculture.  One of the panelists, Dr. Bob Goldberg, was the author of the ballot argument against California’s Proposition 37 GMO Labeling initiative, and so had lots of words with which to tug, and was very good at tugging.

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Nevertheless, I was there to tell the audience why I think people are uncertain about their technologies, and the foods those technologies produce, and so offered up something like this:

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“You have at your hands a marvelous new technology which has the capacity for ultimate good, and ultimate bad.  You have made it possible for one farmer to grow thousands of acres of food crops with no weeds, and therefore have made their lives much better, and yourselves, much wealthier.  But what did consumers get?  They got food drenched in herbicide and infused with pesticide.  And some of those consumers are starting to ask, ‘What’s to eat?’” 

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Those who manufacture herbicide-resistant plants say that the herbicide saturated foods are safe for people and mammals to eat.  The herbicides go right straight through us, they say, and they have the science to back up what they say.  And who am I to doubt the wisdom of their science?

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Is the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) safe to eat?

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(Food Chain Radio & Forums #920)