What exactly are gene-edited foods, and how should we label or regulate them? And how do these technologies affect what we will find in our local supermarket?
These questions and more will be discussed in on Thursday, March 2 from 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. in the Hill Library’s Fishbowl Forum with “Near-Future Genetically Engineered Foods: Prospects and Controversies,” a lively discussion of what the next generation of genetically engineered foods might look like.
NC State’s Rob Dunn (Senior Vice Provost for University Interdisciplinary Programs; William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, Applied Ecology) will facilitate the conversation with faculty members Jason Delborne (Professor in Forestry and Environmental Resources; Director of the Science, Technology, and Society program), Fred Gould (University Distinguished Professor, William Neal Reynolds Professor of Agriculture, Co-Director of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center), and Jennifer Kuzma (Goodnight-NC GSK Foundation Distinguished Professor in the Social Sciences; Co-Director of the Genetic Engineering and Society Center).
The event is a continuation of the Libraries’ “Future of Food” event series that followed the summer 2022 Wicked Problems, Wolfpack Solutions (WPWS) course, The Future of Food. That course challenged incoming first-year and transfer students to consider how we produce enough food for the world, how to distribute it equitably, and what growing processes and foods we will be eating in the future.
Held in the Hill Library’s Fishbowl Forum, the series will be free and open to the public, and livestreamed on the Libraries’ YouTube channel.
The Libraries’ Karen Ciccone, Lead Librarian for Public Science, has been the team lead for the “Future of Food” series. The series benefits from collaborations with organizations and departments from all over the university, including Physics; Biological Sciences; Poultry Science; the Genetics and Genomics Academy; Dining; Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences; the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (and their annual BugFest event); the Genetic Engineering and Society Center and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
This post was originally published in NC State University Libraries.