THE PATRICK TIMPONE SHOW

Andrew Kimbrell

Executive Director of Center for Food Safety

Andrew Kimbrell is an internationally recognized public interest attorney, public speaker, and author. He is the founder and Executive Director of Center for Food Safety. He also is Director of the San Francisco based Center for Technology Assessment, co-founder of Foundation Earth, and President of the Board of Humane Farm Animal Care (that administers the Certified Humane label).

As an attorney, Kimbrell has successfully challenged federal agencies in several historic court cases. He initiated the court challenge that resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court victory forcing, for the first time, EPA regulation of greenhouse gases and their impact on climate change. He also pioneered the legal strategy that led to the Supreme Court ruling that DNA is not patentable due to being a “product of nature.” Through his leadership at CFS, Kimbrell has been at the forefront of legal challenges to genetically engineered crops and lawsuits forcing FDA to adopt new food safety regulations. His legal work has also helped maintain the integrity of organic standards.
As an author and public speaker Kimbrell has been a leading proponent of regenerative forms of agriculture and organic policies. He is the editor of the nationally renowned book Fatal Harvest, The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture and the author of Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food. Kimbrell’s articles and editorials have appeared in The New York Times, Harpers, USA Today, and numerous other print and new media publications such as The Huffington Post.

Show Highlights:

Monsanto now owns 55% of all the seed companies in the world. Not just in commercial agriculture, seed companies that sell packages at Walmart and your favorite nursery.

Listen to this compelling hour with Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director of The Center for food safety and author of several books on genetic engineering of the food supply and the consequences.

Monsanto owns 90% of the cotton seeds. Since the introduction of GMO crops, sold on the concept they will require less chemicals, just the opposite is happening.

The weeds are cleaver and become resistant to chemicals, similar to antibiotics, and it always takes more. The sales of chemicals worldwide grows with GMO proliferation.

You’ll want to plant a garden after listening to this. Stay tuned for a big push by many groups to get mandatory labeling of all GMO foods legislated in Congress.

Soy is virtually all genetically modified now.

Website: http://centerforpublicsafety.org