CA Secretary of Ag Gives Support to Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food
California Secretary of Agriculture A.G. Kawamura gives support to Dialogue
on Science, Ethics, and Food in a short video clip with
Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener, at the
California Small Farms Conference, February 28-March 1 & 2,
2010 at the San Diego Marriott.
Date: 3/2/2010 6:28:05 AM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1879 times
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LESLIE: I want to create a dlalogue where we lessen the tension
between Science, Ethics, and Food, and just start listening
to one another. Would you support that?
A.G. KAWAMURA: ...Absolutely.
You just mentioned exactly where we are, Science and Ethics, and the
philosophies of how we bring those all together has always been
a part of where.. agriculture... (we are at] }crossroads..a bridge... between the two...in many ways.
LESLE: Well, let's work on that together.
A.G. KARAMURA; I would be happy too.
4:12 AM
March 2, 2010
A.G. Kawamura, the California Secretary of Agriculture
sat down with Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener,
at the recent California Small Farms Conference 2010
at the February 28, March 1 & 2 at the San Diego Marriott.
A.G. Kawamura, in this video clip lends his support
toward a Diaglogue on Science, Ethics, and Food
inititated at the recent American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS) 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego
March 18-22.
Dr. Robert T. Fraley, Ph.D.. the American Father of Agricultural Biotechnology,
also gave his support to lessen the tension between GMO and Organic
Lovers.
Secretary Kawamura has been secretary for seven years now.
He recently came back from Copenhagen for the Climate Conference.
He is a very likeable man. I told him I wanted to start a campaign
to have him be the Secretary of Agriculture under the next governor
of California as well. He said he was looking forward to returning
to farming full time. He farms in Orange County with his family.
I felt very inspired by A.G. Kawamura. I watched him give quality
listening to a small farmer who was hurting.
I want to visit him at his farm in Orange County.
Dr. Robert T. Fraley, Ph.D., the Father of
Agricultural Biotenchnololgy, Leslie, and Tami Craig
Schilling, head of Public Affairs for the Monsanto
company met at the recent American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2010 Conference
March 18-22, 2010 at the San Diego Cpnvention Center.
Getting to know each other is a beginning stage of
dialogue, I believe.
The idea for a Dialogue was inspired a few days before I met
Dr. Robert T. Fraley. I attended a reception
for the a Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion
at the AAAS Conference. They are building a bridge
between Science and Faith Communities.
There is a lot of tension now between
GMO and Organic Lovers, and and many other points
of view that I feel is not helping get to the
basic issues that need to be discussed.
I approached Dr. Fraley with the idea of lessening
the tension between GMO and Organic Lovers. I showed
him the Art I did the night before.
This Art Here:
Dr. Fraley said he liked where I was coming from.
"Let's close the gap," he wrote to me in a note.
We planted Seeds toward that intention in
a small sugar cane compost Friendly pot,
a gift from Anthony Russo, of the Biosmart Company,
and a Beet Keeper Sponsor. There are 30 or more
Plant Your Dream Blogs on the recent AAAS meeting
in San Diego.
The Beet Keepers function as a non-profit and aim
to help each person regain their beat with Nature through
planting beet seeds or repotting a fully growing beet
in a pot.
Here is a description of the KEEP The BEET project.
It is now expanding.
LESLIE IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE
HILLCREST FARMERS" MARKET COMMUNITY
in San DIEGO. Three local, organic San Diego
Beet Keeper Farmers provide beets for the project
that aims to help small farmers through creating
a moment of Awakening among shoppers.
From the BROOK LARIOS story
in the EXAMINER, June 3, 09
“I’m playing with the story of an actual beet
that decided she was tired of just sitting
in the ground, watching the human race
become more and more fragmented,
and the beet, whose name is Keep the Beet,
decided to speak up,” said Goldman,
also known to friends as The Enchanted Gardener.
Keep the Beet encourages people to make friends
with a local, organic farmer; purchase the largest beet
they can find and repot it, keeping it alive
as it sprouts billowing, edible green leaves.
Leslie with the Seeds of Change staff
at Sage Mountain Farm in 2009.
Leslie loves local, organic food, and moves more
healthy dialogue. He has friends in every branch
of agriculture. He was given a U..N. Peace Medal in
1984 for the work he would do in his life.
As a blogger, he attended the 2008 BIO
Biotenchnology Industry Organizaion Conference
in San Diego, and most recently the Associaition
for the Advancement of Science Conference.
"We all need to be open to each other. We
are in agriculture because we love food
and want to feed the world. I make friends
where ever I go. Leslie inspired the book
"The Ultimate Gardener. The book is dedicated to him.
Charlie Nardozzi, a consultant to Michelle Obama
on the White House Organic Garden Project
is listed as the author of that book.
Another favorite book of his is
"Mendel in the Kitchen," by incoming
AAAS president Dr. Nina Federoff.
The book describes a scientists support
for GMO Foods. It is a great takeoff point
of looking at the issues I want to discuss
in our Dialogue on Science, Ethiics, and Food
that is beginning here on the Plant Your Dream Blog.
Come visit often!
You are always welcome!
HELPING THE WOMEN IN AFRICA
GET RID OF WEEDS.
BIOTECHNOLOGY and ORGANIC
APPROACHES CONSIDERED.
THERE IS AN EXCELLENT UNDERSTANDNG
FROM CROPLIFE ON THIS LINK.
This interview with PHIL NOBLE of SAGE MT FARM
on TEMECULA VALLEY NEWS
includes an explanation
of the KEEP The BEET Media Star
Project.
Uploaded May 10, 09
WEALTHIEST MAN I KNOW http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1412458
This PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG is
about PHIL NOBLE, SAGE MOUNTAIN FARM,
a grower of KEEP The BEET Media Star
In a time of water shortage facing our local So Cal Farmers,
Phil has a knack for finding land with water.
JR ORGANICS JOE RODRIGUEZ, JR
DESCRIBES HIS FARMING PRACTICES
THIS IS ONE OF THE CERTIFICATES
WE FILL OUT WHEN WE DO THE PLANT YOUR DREAM
WORK
What will you be celebating one year from now,
KEEP The BEET Media Star,
The World's First Talking Beet Plant wants to know??
There are approximately 23 Plant Your Dream Blogs
written between February 18-25 on my experience
at the 176th Annual meeting of AAAS This represents
approximately 60 hours of work. I have
20 more hours of debriefing and followup I would
like to do about the conference.
If you would like to be a sponsor
for these freelance writings that are intended
to further the dialogue, please contact me through the
email above, or through my personal email.
Your name will be listed on
a blog of sponsors of the dialogue, or you may
ask your contribution to remain anonymous.
NEW SPONSORS
WESTBRIDGE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
THANK YOU TINA FOR SPONSORING OUR DIALOGUE
and PROGRAM TO PUT IN A GARDEN AT
HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOL IN LOS ANGELES. http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1582616
March 1, 2010
ART UPLOADED
11:44 AM
February 23, 2010
I was given a United Nations Peace Medal in 1983 by Robert Muller,
then Undersecretary General of the U.N. for the work I would do
in my life. The image is the UN Peace Medal Surrounded by
beet seeds. That story is told here. http://lesliegoldman.com/AboutLeslie/id33.htm
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