Guess What's Coming to Dinner
Description
This video presents a comprehensive indictment of the way we produce, grow, process, and sell the most important requirement of any human society-food. Dr. Ed Dart, a genetic engineer, and Roger Salquist of the California biotechnical firm Calgene, claim that food shortages in the developing world could be readily overcome by introducing genetic engineering. They state that by transferring genes from plants that can survive drought into ordinary crops grown in drought-stricken countries, food production can be greatly increased. However, Professor John Lawton of the Imperial College warns of the dangers inherent in releasing some genetically engineered organisms.
Runtime
50 min
Subjects
- Environmental health (87)
- Food (360)
- Plants (88)
- Plant diversity (33)
- Evolution (Biology) (216)
- Environmental sciences (779)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c1990
Database
Films on Demand