Although I missed most of the Jesus and Evangelical Power conference, held on October 27-29, 2006 at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, I attended Ruth Padilla DeBorst's second presentation of Too Close to the US and Too Far From God (mp3). As I noted on the conference blog,
I was intrigued by her comment about how the export of genetically
modified food into her country has driven out a lot of local farming
(since local farmers would have to buy patented seeds). I was looking
for confirmation that I heard her correctly and substantiation of her
claims. Some other commenters followed up, pointing to:
- 6-Regulation: El Salvador new seed law gives green light for GMOs
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an article in the Wall Street Journal (for which I have no easy access as a non-subscriber) and
I'm hoping that the blog will soon be restructured to better facilitate
discussion around particular talks. I'm also looking forward to
listening to the talks, which are all available for download as mp3s.