Bangor Studio/Membership Department
63 Texas Ave.
Bangor, ME 04401

Lewiston Studio
1450 Lisbon St.
Lewiston, ME 04240

Portland Studio
323 Marginal Way
Portland, ME 04101

Registered 501(c)(3) EIN: 22-3171529
© 2025 Maine Public
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Scroll down to see all available streams.

Climate One Radio

Monday, July 24 at 2:00 pm

Rounding Up The Facts On GMOs

Are GMO advocates the new flat earthers? Are GMO opponents the new climate deniers?

Like many issues these days, the two sides are working from different sets of facts.

Monsanto and other supporters of GMOs say they can promote more nutritious crops, improve farmer livelihood, foster drought tolerance and flood resilience, reduce chemical pesticide use, end hunger and more.

Food advocates say those claims are false. They say GMOs promote industrial monoculture, concentrate corporate power in a few hands, and drive the use of glyphosate, which has been labeled a carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency and is now the subject of a class action lawsuit in California.

A law passed last year requiring future labeling of GMOs displeased both critics and supporters.

Join us for a conversation about the science and the facts behind eating and labeling GMOs.

Speakers:
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman
Senior Scientist, Director Grassroots Science Program, Pesticide Action Network

Scott Kennedy
Filmmaker, Food Evolution

John Purcell
VP and Global R&D Lead, Monsanto Company

Austin Wilson
Environmental Health Program Manager, As You Sow

To listen to the audio “Rounding Up The Facts On GMOs” on Climate One Radio online, please click HERE.