The Ulysses Philomathic Library is pleased to present Dr. Johnathan Latham as the first speaker in the Arts & Letters Series. Dr. Latham will show the film GMO OMG with a discussion to follow. The presentation will take place on Thursday, September 22 at 5:30 in the Melvin Community Room of the library.
Johnathan R. Latham, PhD is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and Editor of the Independent Science News Website. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology.
The following is a description of GMO OMG from gmofilm.com:
GMO OMG director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert is in search of answers. How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice? And perhaps the ultimate question, which Seifert tests himself: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can’t gain back? These and other questions take Seifert on a journey from his family’s table to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and the lobby of agra-giant Monsanto, from which he is unceremoniously ejected. Along the way we gain insight into a question that is of growing concern to citizens the world over: what’s on your plate?
