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Fred Perlak, Monsanto scientist talks GMOs, RoundUp and drinking wine
Monsanto GMO Scientist Fred Perlak discusses disruption, RoundUp and wine. Vance Crowe Podcast
Fred 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 scientific team that created Bt Cotton, a GMO that…
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