VIDEO
WEBCAST
Originally broadcast live on
October 24, 2001
Are the US and Europe Heading for
a Food Fight Over Genetically Modified Food?
The Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology hosted a policy dialogue
to engage U.S. and European leaders on the trade issues surrounding
genetically modified food in light of the recent EU proposal to label
all biotech products and have information about their origins. The dialogue
also examined the economic ramifications and the cultural context of
the disagreement.
PARTICIPANTS:
- David Gergen, counsel to four presidents and author, Eyewitness
to Power: The Essence of Leadership from Nixon to Clinton, will moderate
- David Hegwood, Trade Advisor to the Secretary, U.S. Department
of Agriculture
- Julia A. Moore, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, who has written and spoken extensively
about consumer attitudes in the US and in Europe toward biotechnology
- Tony Van der haegen, Minister/Counselor for Agriculture, Fisheries
and Consumer Affairs, the European Commission Delegation
- Fred Yoder, president-elect of the National Corn Growers Association,
who will discuss how the EU proposal would affect American farmers
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