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Pamela Ronald is Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at the University of California, Davis. With her husband R. W. Adamchak, an organic famrer, she coauthored Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics and the Future of Food. Her research is funded by the NSF, NIH, USDA, DOE, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She receives no funding from Monsanto.
Genetically modified foods are safe for humans and pose no special environmental risk. Yet there are serious policy questions to consider.
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