{"id":3065,"date":"2011-08-15T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2011-08-14T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:19:22","slug":"bill-gates-on-genetically-modified-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/3065","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates on Genetically Modified Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The five-minute video is <a title=\"Bill Gates Tackles Controversy over Genetically Modified Crops\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/video\/bill-gates-tackles-controversy-over-genetically-modified-crops\/415022\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I share Gates&#8217; optimism about the food-security potential of genetically modified (GM) crops.<\/p>\n<p>Much like\u00a0<a title=\"Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Starved-Science-Biotechnology-Being-Africa\/dp\/0674033477\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1313327544&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Paarlberg (2009)<\/a>, I find it hypocritical to pontificate about the ill effects of GM crops when the only meals you&#8217;ve ever had to skip, you skipped because you wanted to lose weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five-minute video is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16,55,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-development","category-economics","category-food","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-Nr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}