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In reply to the discussion: MoJo: What Did Monsanto Show Bill Nye to Make Him Fall "in Love" With GMOs? [View all]Nina V. Federoff.... the science and technology adviser to the secretary of state from 2007 to 2010 under the Bush and Obama administrations...an ardent advocate of genetically modified foods...
served on the scientific advisory board at Evogene... (the) Israeli agriculture-biotech firm works closely with Monsanto, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Bayer CropScience, Syngenta and others. She also served on the board of Sigma-Aldrich...provides services and products - including transgenic animals - to agricultural biotech companies.
And she herself is one of the early patent-holders on transgenic technologies...
http://gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13374
served on the scientific advisory board at Evogene... (the) Israeli agriculture-biotech firm works closely with Monsanto, Pioneer Hi-Bred, Bayer CropScience, Syngenta and others. She also served on the board of Sigma-Aldrich...provides services and products - including transgenic animals - to agricultural biotech companies.
And she herself is one of the early patent-holders on transgenic technologies...
http://gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13374
Peter Raven....Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden and one of the worlds leading botanists...(Wikipedia)
The Raven-Monsanto equation includes the Garden's multimillion-dollar research centre - The Monsanto Center.
And it doesn't stop there, as the St Louis' paper, The Riverside Times, noted in 1999: 'The Garden received $3 million from Monsanto in their last fundraising campaign... Monsanto also contributed land and a large chunk of the $146 million startup money for the Danforth Plant Science Center (a project Raven was instrumental in getting off the ground).
Monsanto matches its employees' contributions to the Garden ($225,000 last year) and contributes to the operating fund ($25,000 last year). Trustees give privately, too, and in past years the Garden has had Monsanto CEO Robert Shapiro, Monsanto vice president Tom K. Smith and Monsanto research-and-development director Howard Schneiderman on its governing board.
Now the Garden is collaborating with Monsanto's nutrition sector on a food library, collecting samples of all plants used worldwide as foods and medicines. (The World Resources Institute lists Monsanto as a bioprospector since 1989 and lists its collector, as of 1993, as the Missouri Botanical Garden.)
When Confluence, an environmental quarterly, criticized Monsanto, the Garden's PR woman pulled it from their literature table.'
At the time that was written, Raven's wife was Monsanto's Director of Public Policy, Kate Fish, leading to jokes that even Raven's sex life came corporate-sponsored...Raven played a key role in getting the Golden Rice publicity bandwagon rolling, after its inventor... had his paper...rejected by the journal Nature.
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/44-2005/4125-peter-raven-and-transgenes-in-mexican-maize-892005
The Raven-Monsanto equation includes the Garden's multimillion-dollar research centre - The Monsanto Center.
And it doesn't stop there, as the St Louis' paper, The Riverside Times, noted in 1999: 'The Garden received $3 million from Monsanto in their last fundraising campaign... Monsanto also contributed land and a large chunk of the $146 million startup money for the Danforth Plant Science Center (a project Raven was instrumental in getting off the ground).
Monsanto matches its employees' contributions to the Garden ($225,000 last year) and contributes to the operating fund ($25,000 last year). Trustees give privately, too, and in past years the Garden has had Monsanto CEO Robert Shapiro, Monsanto vice president Tom K. Smith and Monsanto research-and-development director Howard Schneiderman on its governing board.
Now the Garden is collaborating with Monsanto's nutrition sector on a food library, collecting samples of all plants used worldwide as foods and medicines. (The World Resources Institute lists Monsanto as a bioprospector since 1989 and lists its collector, as of 1993, as the Missouri Botanical Garden.)
When Confluence, an environmental quarterly, criticized Monsanto, the Garden's PR woman pulled it from their literature table.'
At the time that was written, Raven's wife was Monsanto's Director of Public Policy, Kate Fish, leading to jokes that even Raven's sex life came corporate-sponsored...Raven played a key role in getting the Golden Rice publicity bandwagon rolling, after its inventor... had his paper...rejected by the journal Nature.
http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/44-2005/4125-peter-raven-and-transgenes-in-mexican-maize-892005
Phillip Sharp...is Institute Professor (highest academic rank) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the Department of Biology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research...
Sharp co-founded Biogen (now part of Biogen Idec), Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, and Magen Biosciences, and has served on the boards of all three companies.[16]
http://ki.mit.edu/people/faculty/sharp
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MoJo: What Did Monsanto Show Bill Nye to Make Him Fall "in Love" With GMOs? [View all]
99th_Monkey
Mar 2015
OP
really? i think he's gone over to the dark side. too bad. i used to like him on seattle tv.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#2
not quite "dark side," don't worry!--but he's a hydraulic engineer and impresario,
MisterP
Mar 2015
#4
Ah, I see. He's got a BA in mechanical engineering. The "science guy" is an engineer. And
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#37
And I have an MS in a science (more closely related to this topic than nye's) and
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#123
"which have been linked pretty decisively to the decline of monarch butterflies"
Major Nikon
Mar 2015
#3
It's easier to rant and rave than realize that farmers are trying to grow as much food as possible.
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#5
Oh baloney. The US pays farmers *not* to grow food to keep prices up, and the only reason
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#38
You don't want to discuss with me because you can't refute the truth. All you have are canned
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#78
To get a sense why the monarch butterflies are in decline, I called Lincoln Brower, a professor of
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#9
The alternative to what? The scientist says that Roundup is the primary cause of Monarch
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#13
Is that 'simple"? You seem to be saying that without GM & Roundup, something *worse* for
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#17
first i want to make sure that that is indeed you argument. as for your pirate chart, it's
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#22
so you're not even going to tell me if that is indeed what your claim is, that if there weren't
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#31
No more misleading than your claim that corn production has 'skyrocketed,' especially
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#41
"Increased" doesn't = "Skyrocketed". And if it increased because a big corporation lobbied
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#46
Well, I'd say you'd get an argument if you claim GM crops have "greatly increased food production".
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#36
The Green Revolution was 40s-60s, which is what you're referring to. Borlaug didnt do
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#45
Hardly "destroyed". It said the only variety of GM that would cause a problem is one being phased
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#10
I don't think you understand the meaning of ad hominem. And I only looked at the first two
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#35
Why did I bother to bring *what* up? Pointing out that some scientists have interests that
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#42
Do you also share a BS in Mechanical Engineering? That's the sum total of his science experience.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#47
Certainly. But it's not a degree that gives Nye any relevant qualification to judge the
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#50
Certainly a BS in Engineering gives him the right to an opinion, and a general knowledge of
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#61
I also have a science degree: at a higher level, and more relevant than nye's. i've done
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#64
You keep making this claim, but you keep showing that you don't understand the issue at all.
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#68
If you want to use Koch & Monsanto-linked sources, be prepared to be called on it.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#98
"Do you also share a BS in Mechanical Engineering? That's the sum total of his science experience."
NCTraveler
Mar 2015
#106
Nye has a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He worked at Boeing after he graduated, before
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#48
This thread isn't about Vandana shiva, and you're the only one who brought her into it.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#114
Not generally, because the label "organic" doesn't equate to healthier foods.
NuclearDem
Mar 2015
#107
Good for him, but I'm my own man and can make my own decisions based on the evidence.
NuclearDem
Mar 2015
#109
and him eating organic when organic is 'meaningless' doesn't bring his reliability
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#111
nye the scientist loves organics (which many of our resident DU scientists think =
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#115
it's only a fallacy if you claim his inconsistency proves his position must be wrong. which
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#118
Interestingly, my guess was that Nye was vegetarian or vegan, because he has 'the look'.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#55
Debate will continue until all results of putting these gene changes into the environment can be
mmonk
Mar 2015
#62
You have never advocated for "truth in labeling," just demonization via labeling.
HuckleB
Mar 2015
#70
What could account for such a change? That's some photo of employees with a faux Bill Bow Tie.
appalachiablue
Mar 2015
#76
Ha, ha. Not a big sucker, far from it. He seems like a person who knows just what he's doing.
appalachiablue
Mar 2015
#110