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Lessening the Tension between GMO vs Organic
The Seed Dream I will plant in soil tomorrow:
An invitation to engage in a healthy
dialogue between those who support Genetic Engineering
in its applications to seeds and farming, and those
who support organic food production and its lifestyle.
I will seed beets and beet seeds that this will
grow into a new plant, a plant that
represents an intention,
a new AAAS program called (DoSEF),
The AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics,
and Food.
As the Seed Grows, so may the program I now
see and seed, grow up from healthy soil.
Date: 2/21/2010 1:41:28 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1910 times
11:26 PM
February 20, 2010
I have been spending time with members of
the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT
OF SCIENCE (AAAS). I am part of the press corps.
I came in to this experience with a sense of urgency
about the state of GMO Foods. I was drawn in
to hear DR. ROBERT T. FRALEY,
Dr. Fraley oversees Monsanto's integrated crop and seed agribusiness technology and research with facilities in most world areas.
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1576502
The AAAP is a remarkable organization and this is its
146th meeting.
Last night I attended a a reception
that introduced me to The AAAS Program of Dialogue
on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER).
This is a vital program of AAAS that aims to ease the
tension between Science and Faith-Based Communities.
I met numbers of members and allies of AAAS who are
deeply involved in this program.
I blogged about this remarkable meeting.
A NEW SEED DREAM
I AM PLANTING
The Seed Dream I am planting now is to invite a healthy
dialogue between those who support Genetic Engineering
in its applications to seeds and farming, and those
who support organic food production and its lifestyle.
In many places around the world, there
has been a welcoming of GMO--Genetically Modified Organisms
in food. There has also been a repulsion of GMO foods
in Europe. It is time to look at these results as they stand
now and projections for the future. It is time to look
at the issues involved from an omnilateral point of view.
This series of blogs began with a sense or urgency.
The acceptance of GMO Seeds and its crops has the
inside track within U.S. Government policy, yet
many in who have looked at GMO Seeds from
the point of view of organic sustainable agriculture
are convinced it cannot exist side by side
with organic seeds and its crops.
I am among those who believe that residues from GMO plants
infiltrate organic foods and that they are no longer organically grown.
Show me otherwise.
This issue is part of the uproar and tension,
and the sense of urgency.
On the other hand, the USDA, our United States
Department of Agriculture, accepts that GE Alfalfa,
as an example, does effect Organically grown Alfalfa.
Their position is that most people do not care.
The earth has been organically grown following
Nature's Original Technology for ions.
We have now entered a different path.
This series of Plant Your Dream Blogs
records my personal experiences and transformation
at the AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting held in San Diego
February 18-22, 2010.
It records my journey inviting others among the
AAAS membership of Scientists to join with me
in an AAAS sponsored program of Dialogue on
Science, Ethics, and Food (DoSEF). We then
find numbers of blogs taking the idea of the
dialogue to the California Small Farm Conference
February 28-March 2, 2010, where A.G. Kawamura,
head of the Department of Agriculture gave support
for the dialogue.
SEE: http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1582841
I invite you to read my open journal of what has touched
me here at these meetings through these writings
and photos.
I invite you to join with me in seeding the success
of a new convergence of thinking.
I have some answers that I now hold as truth.
I am open to listen and learn.
I am willing to revisit premises of science
and apply its methods to these writings.
I am sure we can all gain through this journey.
I received a United Nations Peace Medal in 1983 from Robert Muller,
then Undersecretary for the U.N. for the work I would do in
my life. May the fulfillment of this Seed Dream be part of
that work.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
San Diego, California
Written at the end of the Third Day
of the Five Day 146th Annual Meeting
of the AAAS
11:52 PM
February 20, 2010
RELATED PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOGS.
MOST RECENT FIRST.
Profound and Life Shifting Experience
at the AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting
http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1576571
Uploaded February 20, 2010
SPONSORS OF THE DIALOGUE
on SCIENCE, ETHICS, and FOOD
Anthony Russo of the Biosmart Company,
makers of compost friendly takeout eating ware
made of sugar cane Bagasse.
Sales from this link here support my full time
job writing on the Plant Your Dream Blog.
NEW SPONSOR, March 1
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