Thu April 5, 2018
FOOD EVOLUTION: Film Screening & Panel Discussion
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FREE public screening of the most controversial contemporary movie on food and GM crops: Food Evolution. Stay for a different scientific view from an all-star scientist panel featuring, Belinda Martineau, Ignacio Chapela, Doug Gurian-Sherman and Brian Dowd-Uribe. Thursday April 5, 2018 at the University of San Francisco’s Presentation Theater. Showing begins at 6:45pm with panel to follow. #PublicScience
Movie description:
Amidst a brutally polarizing debate marked by passion, suspicion, and confusion, Food Evolution, from Academy Award-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa, the film, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, wrestles with the emotions and the science driving one of the most heated arguments of our time. In the GMO debate, both pro- and anti- camps claim science is on their side. Who’s right?
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Movie description:
Amidst a brutally polarizing debate marked by passion, suspicion, and confusion, Food Evolution, from Academy Award-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa, the film, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, wrestles with the emotions and the science driving one of the most heated arguments of our time. In the GMO debate, both pro- and anti- camps claim science is on their side. Who’s right?
FREE public screening of the most controversial contemporary movie on food and GM crops: Food Evolution. Stay for a different scientific view from an all-star scientist panel featuring, Belinda Martineau, Ignacio Chapela, Doug Gurian-Sherman and Brian Dowd-Uribe. Thursday April 5, 2018 at the University of San Francisco’s Presentation Theater. Showing begins at 6:45pm with panel to follow. #PublicScience
Movie description:
Amidst a brutally polarizing debate marked by passion, suspicion, and confusion, Food Evolution, from Academy Award-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa, the film, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, wrestles with the emotions and the science driving one of the most heated arguments of our time. In the GMO debate, both pro- and anti- camps claim science is on their side. Who’s right?
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Movie description:
Amidst a brutally polarizing debate marked by passion, suspicion, and confusion, Food Evolution, from Academy Award-nominated director Scott Hamilton Kennedy explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves to banana farms in Uganda to the cornfields of Iowa, the film, narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, wrestles with the emotions and the science driving one of the most heated arguments of our time. In the GMO debate, both pro- and anti- camps claim science is on their side. Who’s right?
show less
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2350 Turk Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94118
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