My mentor, Fred Perlak, was a career scientist at Monsanto, an agriculture company that created GMOs and pesticides we recorded one of our long conversations.

Fred Perlak Ph.D. is a retired scientist from Monsanto.  During this interview he discusses the likelihood that glyphosate (RoundUp) causes cancer, how disruptive Monsanto was to the pesticide industry, and gives a metaphor to understand how you can engineer a plant to resist an herbicide that kills almost all other plants.  

Perlak ran the Hawaii site for Monsanto, a site critical to Monsanto’s seed operations.  Prior to that he was a key member of the scientific team that created Bt cotton, a GMO that protected the plant from being eaten by specific insects.   

Fred is on Twitter: @FredPerlak

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The Vance Crowe Podcast interviews experts in unexpected fields and gets them to reveal the discoveries that come from having a knowledge of a highly specific discipline.  Vance Crowe is the CEO of Articulate Ventures (www.VanceCrowe.com) a communications strategy company- and he is regularly invited to deliver speeches around the U.S. and Canada teaching audiences how to communicate so that others want to listen, understand and value what you have to say.