Petition CBC News, The National to Interview Dr Thierry Vrain Regarding GMO & The Future of Agriculture

The Issue

Dr. Thierry Vrain, formerly Head of Biotechnology at Agriculture Canada's Summerland Research Station, was once a supporter of GMO. He has in the last 10 years changed his position after paying attention to the flow of published studies coming from Europe that questioned the impact and safety of engineered food and is now sharing his concerns.

CBC thus far is ignoring the highly logical arguments that he is expressing and generally publishes Associated Press articles suggesting there are no problems with GMO in agriculture rather than do it's own in depth reporting.

It's high time that Peter Mansbridge interviews Dr Thierry Vrain on the National regarding the contents of his recent Ted talk entitled The Gene Revolution, The Future of Agriculture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQkQXyiynYs

Canadians need to be getting more information from our public broadcaster regarding problems with GMO in agriculture that are more and more being researched, published and ignored by CBC. The safety of our food and the future of agriculture in Canada and the world should be of much greater concern to our public broadcaster.

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Friends of Dr Thierry VrainPetition StarterI'm an experienced data engineer with a passion for music. I've recently spent five years in Gambia, West Africa, sharing knowledge and creating symbiotic relationships with some locals. The creation of the UTSWEB program http://sites.utg.edu.gm/utsweb/, a work experience building program for software engineering students at the University of the Gambia (UTG), which identified strong underemployed students and helped them get work experience, evolved out a desire to help, discussion with faculty and the reality of needing extra income to survive on top of the low UTG salary by gaining international contracts, whose finances were managed by UTG ensuring the university gained 30%. I hope to encourage other professionals to join UTSWEB in future. Satisfying a passion I learned music from and played a weekly show at the Kairaba Beach hotel with two griots. We made a cheaply recorded http://bafila.bandcamp.com/ album which we hope to improve upon in future.
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The Issue

Dr. Thierry Vrain, formerly Head of Biotechnology at Agriculture Canada's Summerland Research Station, was once a supporter of GMO. He has in the last 10 years changed his position after paying attention to the flow of published studies coming from Europe that questioned the impact and safety of engineered food and is now sharing his concerns.

CBC thus far is ignoring the highly logical arguments that he is expressing and generally publishes Associated Press articles suggesting there are no problems with GMO in agriculture rather than do it's own in depth reporting.

It's high time that Peter Mansbridge interviews Dr Thierry Vrain on the National regarding the contents of his recent Ted talk entitled The Gene Revolution, The Future of Agriculture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQkQXyiynYs

Canadians need to be getting more information from our public broadcaster regarding problems with GMO in agriculture that are more and more being researched, published and ignored by CBC. The safety of our food and the future of agriculture in Canada and the world should be of much greater concern to our public broadcaster.

avatar of the starter
Friends of Dr Thierry VrainPetition StarterI'm an experienced data engineer with a passion for music. I've recently spent five years in Gambia, West Africa, sharing knowledge and creating symbiotic relationships with some locals. The creation of the UTSWEB program http://sites.utg.edu.gm/utsweb/, a work experience building program for software engineering students at the University of the Gambia (UTG), which identified strong underemployed students and helped them get work experience, evolved out a desire to help, discussion with faculty and the reality of needing extra income to survive on top of the low UTG salary by gaining international contracts, whose finances were managed by UTG ensuring the university gained 30%. I hope to encourage other professionals to join UTSWEB in future. Satisfying a passion I learned music from and played a weekly show at the Kairaba Beach hotel with two griots. We made a cheaply recorded http://bafila.bandcamp.com/ album which we hope to improve upon in future.
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The Decision Makers

Peter Mansbridge (Chief Correspondent, CBC)
Peter Mansbridge (Chief Correspondent, CBC)
Chief Correspondent, CBC

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Petition created on June 20, 2013