Why India needs transgenic crops

[Michael Perelman]

I once debated Borlaug in Santa Barbar.  Actually, he was not able to show up
and had to debate via a TV hookup.

Of course, he is supportive of the Green Rev. and now GE crops.  He was
considered to be the key innovator of the GR.  Also, since winning his Nobel, he
has become increasingly political.

I don't know if we want to debate the GR here.  I would only note that you have
to look at the hysterical rhetoric -- invoking Lysenko and the Dark Ages, e.g.
-- to be sceptical of what he says.  He is not all wrong, but he is farther off
the target than Shiva.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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