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Podcast: The Vance Crowe Podcast
Episode: Fred Perlak, Monsanto scientist talks GMOs, RoundUp and drinking wine
Description: Monsanto GMO Scientist Fred Perlak discusses disruption, RoundUp and wine. Vance Crowe PodcastFred Perlak Ph.D. is a retired scientist from Monsanto. During this interview he discusses the likelihood that glyphosate (RoundUp) causes cancer, how disruptive Monsanto was to the pesticide industry, and gives a metaphor to understand how you can engineer a plant to resist an herbicide that kills almost all other plants.  Perlak ran the Hawaii site for Monsanto, a site critical to Monsanto’s seed operations. Prior to that he was a key member of the s...