Hi, I'm inviting you to a fascinating event I'll be moderating on Saturday: a top-notch radical scientific panel on the issue of CLONING (touching also on Genetic Engineering).
SATURDAY, June 14, 2008 12:30 pm (for vegetarian lunch) Sixth Street Community Center 638 East 6th St. (between Ave. B & C) -- Manhattan (212) 677-1863 www.sosfood.org
In January of this year the FDA approved the sale of meat and dairy products from cloned livestock for human consumption. Should you be concerned about this issue? Have any questions about animal cloning?
This panel will consist of leading scientists, writers and activists. The event has been organized by the members of the SOS Food Advocacy Committee. Come join a growing movement working to restore sanity to our food and farm policies.
Hope to see you all there!
Speakers:
- Stuart Newman - Sheldon Krimsky - Michael Hansen
Moderated by Mitchel Cohen
BIOS of Speakers: Stuart Newman Ph.D Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D. is Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at New York Medical College, where he directs a research program in developmental biology. Newman has contributed to several scientific fields, including cell differentiation, theory of biochemical networks and cell pattern formation, protein folding and assembly, and mechanisms of morphological evolution. He has has been a visiting professor at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the University of Tokyo, and was a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash University, Australia. He is a member of the External Faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria. He is co-editor (with Gerd B. Müller), of Origination of Organismal Form: Beyond the Gene in Developmental and Evolutionary Biology (MIT Press, 2003) and co-author (with Gabor Forgacs), of Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, Cambridge, MA, is currently a Fellow of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, Chicago IL, and has testified before Congressional committees on issues ranging from patenting of organisms to human stem cells and cloning. He has also been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health on policy regarding the use of human fetal tissue for research. In response to the growth in patenting of life forms and the emergence of technologies that threaten to blur the boundary between human and nonhuman organisms, Newman applied for a patent on human-animal chimeras (mixed species organisms) as a challenge to existing patent policy, and a way to prevent inappropriate uses of the technology. Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D is professor of Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning in the School of Arts & Sciences and Adjunct Professor in Public Health and Family Medicine in the School of Medicine at Tufts University. Professor Krimsky's research has focused on the linkages between science/technology, ethics/values and public policy. He is the author of eight books: Genetic Alchemy: The Social History of the Recombinant DNA Controversy (MIT Press) 1982, Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics (Praeger) 1991, Hormonal Chaos:The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), Science in the Private Interest: Has the lure of profits corrupted biomedical research? (Rowman & Littlefield Pub.) 2003. He is co-author of Environmental Hazards: Communicating Risks as a Social Process (Auburn House) 1988 and Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy and Social Values (University of llinois), 1996 and co-editor of a collection of papers titled Social Theories of Risk (Praeger) 1992. Professor Krimsky has published over 160 essays and reviews that have appeared in many books and journals. His current book is a co-edited volume titled Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age: Why We Need a Genetic Bill of Rights (Rowman & Littlefield Pub.) 2005.
Professor Krimsky served on the National Institutes of Health's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee from 1978-1981. He was a consultant to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He participated on a special study panel for the American Civil Liberties Union that formulated a policy on civil liberties and scientific research. Professor Krimsky was chairperson of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility for the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 1988-1992. Currently he serves on the Board of Directors for the Council for Responsible Genetics and as a Fellow of the Hastings Center on Bioethics. Professor Krimsky has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "seminal scholarship exploring the normative dimensions and moral implications of science in its social context."
Michael Hansen, Ph.D Michael K. Hansen Ph.D., a Senior Staff Scientist with Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, currently works primarily on food safety issues. He has been largely responsible for developing CU positions on safety, testing and labeling of genetically engineered food and “mad cow” disease. Since 2003, he has worked on a multi-state effort to ban the use of food crops to produce pharmaceutical drugs and industrial chemicals. Dr. Hansen has testified at hearings in Washington, D.C., many states, and Canada, and has prepared comments on many proposed U.S. governmental rules and regulations on food safety issues. He also represents Consumers International, a federation of more than 250 organizations in 110 countries, at Codex Alimentarius and other international fora on issues. Dr. Hansen speaks on CU’s concerns on mad cow disease, GMOs, pest management, and antibiotics in animal feed, at meetings and conferences throughout the world. He is widely quoted in the media. Dr. Hansen served on the USDA Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology from 1998-2002, and on the California Department of Food and Agriculture Food Biotechnology Advisory Committee, from 2001-2002. He was appointed to a FAO/WHO Joint Consultation on Genetically Engineered Animals in 2003. In June 2005, he joined the Board of ETC Group, previously known as RAFI.
Dr. Hansen authored the Consumers Union book Pest Control for House and Garden, published in 1992, and co-authored Pest Management at the Crossroads, a 1996 policy study on integrated pest management. He has also written reports on alternatives to agricultural pesticides in developing countries, and the pesticide and agriculture policies of the World Bank and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. He wrote CU’s 1990 report on recombinant bovine growth hormone, Biotechnology and Milk: Benefit or Threat? In 2004, he co-authored Pharmaceutical Rice in California: Potential Risks to Consumers, the Environment and the California Rice Industry.