Michael Pollan and Monsanto CEO discuss feeding the world
Michael Pollan, author of omnivores' dilemma and Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley's
Graduate School of Journalism is interviewed by Larry Brilliant, Executive Director,
Google.org along with Hugh Grant, Chairman, President and CEO,
Monsanto and Sonal Shah, a development expert at Google.
Brilliant frames the debate by asking whether Monsanto with its science and business based model that is centralized in approach will be better able to meet the food needs of the poor world than an organic "slow food" approach that is decentralized.
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Brilliant frames the debate by asking whether Monsanto with its science and business based model that is centralized in approach will be better able to meet the food needs of the poor world than an organic "slow food" approach that is decentralized.