1. Plant breeders and geneticists seeding solutions. How did Dan Barber get it so wrong?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gale, Wayne (author / Chair, American Seed Trade Association)
- Format:
- Commentary
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06-18
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11041
- Notes:
- The June 7, 2019 commentary by Barber in the New York Times was retrieved online at: https://seedfreedom.info/opinion-save-our-food-free-the-seed. It is filed with this document., Online via seedworld.com. 3 pages., Response to an opinion piece in the New York Times by celebrity chef Dan Barber. Barber reported on visiting a 24,000-acre farm in North Dakota and observing the large scale of operations. He concluded: "We should be alarmed by the current architects." In this commentary author Gale offered a differing view of the changes in plant breeding and the seed industry over the past 100-plus years - and what they mean for the future.