A Nutritionist Reflects on the Sad State of Health Education About GMOs and Farming at Schools and Universities | Genetic Literacy Project

A Nutritionist Reflects on the Sad State of Health Education About GMOs and Farming at Schools and Universities | Genetic Literacy Project

A Nutritionist Reflects on the Sad State of Health Education About GMOs and Farming at Schools and Universities

Ruth MacDonald, PhD, Author, Professor and Chair, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, and Interim Senior Associate Dean for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | August 8, 2018

Highlights:

• Anti-GMO propaganda documentary films have become a prime source of misinformation
• Most teachers have no background in farming or health issues and readily pass along anti-biotechnology jeremiads as facts
• Scientists are frustrated trying to counter this tsunami of fear-mongering when the education establishment is uniformly in the thrall of anti-GMO propaganda