Speakers
The
following people are
scheduled to be speakers at the BioREALITY
Conference. Many
more speakers will be added in the
next week or two.
Philip
L. Bereano, Ph.D., J.D.
Philip
L. Bereano, Ph.D., J.D., is a professor
in the College of Engineering, Department
of Technical Communication, University
of Washington, Seattle. For over
30 years he has worked on issues
regarding technologies and public
policies.
He
chairs the national Committee on
Databases and Civil Liberties of
the American Civil Liberties Union,
and is a co-founder of the Council
for Responsible Genetics. He participated
in the development of the UN Cartagena
Biosafety protocol.
Deborah
Koons Garcia, Filmmaker
A
native of Cincinnati, Ohio, filmmaker
Deborah Koons Garcia has called California
home for over thirty years. Her film
production company, Lily Films, is
located in Mill Valley, California
just north of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Her most
recent film, The
Future of Food, examines alarming
issues surrounding the rapidly increasing
corporate domination of our food supply.
It is the first major film to cover
the history and technology of genetic
engineering and the complex implications
of untested genetically engineered
crops on the environment and unlabelled
foods on consumers.
Garcia's
other film credits include All About
Babies, Poco
Loco and Grateful
Dawg, a documentary featuring
her late husband, Jerry Garcia, of
the Grateful Dead.
Samuel
S. Epstein, M.D.
Samuel
S. Epstein, M.D. is professor emeritus
of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
at the University of Illinois School
of Public Health, and Chairman of the
Cancer
Prevention Coalition.
He
has published some 260 peer reviewed
articles, and authored or co-authored
11 books including: the prize-winning
1978 The
Politics of Cancer; the 1995 Safe
Shopper's Bible; the 1998 Breast
Cancer Prevention Program;
the 1998 The Politics
of Cancer, Revisited; the 2001 GOT
(Genetically Engineered) MILK! The
Monsanto rBGH/BST Milk Wars Handbook;
the 2001 Unreasonable
Risk. How
to Avoid Cancer from Cosmetics and
Personal Care Products: The Neways
Story; and the 2005
Cancer-Gate: How to
Win the Losing Cancer War.
Rick North
Rick North is the project director
for the Oregon
Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Campaign For
Safe Food, which was initiated in 2003.
The Campaign’s current priorities
are leading a grass roots effort to
discontinue the use of recombinant
bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST)
in cows and to ensure that genetically
engineered biopharmaceutical crops
do not contaminate the human food supply
or environment.
Rick has written numerous newspaper
articles and op-ed pieces, been a spokesman
on television and radio, and presented
at regional and national meetings.
Jeffrey M. Smith
Jeffrey M. Smith is
a leading spokesperson on the health
risks of genetically engineered foods
and the controversies surrounding their
approval. He is the author of the world’s
bestselling book on the subject, Seeds
of Deception : Exposing Industry
and Government Lies about the Safety
of the Genetically Engineered Foods
You’re Eating.
He is also
the producer of the video, Hidden
Dangers in Kids’ Meals and
author of the internationally syndicated
monthly column, Spilling
the Beans. He has traveled in 25
countries on six continents, briefing
world leaders and the public, and has
reached well over 100 million people
through hundreds of media interviews.
Craig
Winters
Craig
Winters is the founder and president
of
The
Campaign, a non-profit political
advocacy organization working to pass
legislation to label genetically engineered
foods. He was also founding president
of Citizens For Health.
Craig
has been working in the natural products
industry for 28 years and served as
an instructor at Bastyr University
from 1996-1999 where he taught nutrition
students a course called "Nutrition in
the Natural Products Industry." He
has given hundreds of lectures and
radio interviews on the issues surrounding
genetically engineered foods, food
irradiation, organic agriculture, holistic
health and the environment.
