Expert Panel 1 Sept. 8, 2014
Proponents:
Dr. Ray Seidler: Ph.D., former EPA Scientist
Dr. Ray Seidler is a former Senior Scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency, who wrote the EPA’s Bio safety Plan. During his career, Dr. Ray Seidler studied the development of methods to evaluate/predict the survival, multiplication,gene exchange, effects, and dispersal of recombinant organisms (GMOs); the origins, and health significance's of pathogens in surface and drinking water, industrial and agricultural environments.While at EPA he was invited to give over 100 talks on GMO biosafety issues throughout the world. During the 1980′s he was the Chief EPA scientist involved in monitoring the first ever microorganism GMO releases into the open environment.
Cheryl Gray, RD
Cheryl Gray is a Registered Dietitian and natural born leader who inspires others with her passion for individualized nutrition, functional medicine, and wellness. With over 20 years’ experience, Cheryl has worked as a Functional Medicine consultant in the nutraceutical industry where she continues to educate physicians on the value of nutrition and functional medicine principles. In 2001 she founded and served as Executive Director for the highly successful Functional Medicine Forum in Colorado using her leadership skills to create a network of high-profile speakers, providing a series of monthly lectures to physicians and other healthcare providers on the science-based principles of functional medicine. Recently, Cheryl produced the Seeds of Doubt Conference, a special one-day seminar for doctors and healthcare practitioners, which examined the detrimental effects of GMOs on our health and the environment. The conference presented the latest compelling research from leading experts around the world and brought to the forefront the importance of educating practitioners and patients of the growing concerns around the effects of genetically modified crops on our environment and health. She regularly consults with physicians and other health care providers helping them incorporate functional medicine into their daily practice.
Opponents:
Don Shawcroft
Don Shawcroft is a fourth generation rancher from Conejos County, Colorado. Don has been working for the Colorado Farm Bureau (CFB) since 1986 and is currently the President of the CFB. Don has previously served agriculture as the Chairman of the Board for the United States Animal Identification Organization, as Chairman of the Colorado Ag Water Alliance and currently as a Director for the Mountain States Legal Foundation.
Back home in the valley, in addition to managing the family ranching operation, Don serves on the Board of the Colorado Choice Health Plans and San Luis Valley Health as well as being active in his church. He and his wife Ann are the proud parents of six, grandparents of nine, with a son and son-in-law currently working on the ranch.
Martina Newell-McGloughlin, D.Sc.
Dr. Martina Newell-McGloughlin directs the University of California System wide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, which covers ten campuses and three national laboratories. She is co-director of a National Institutes of Health Training Grant in Biomolecular Technology and has also served as director of the UC Davis Biotechnology Program. Dr. Newell-McGloughlin travels worldwide for various organizations including the U.S. State Department and the USDA as an expert on biotechnology research and education issues. She has recently provided briefings for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation directors and thePontifical Academy of Science at the Vatican on future opportunities and challenges in biotechnology. Her science training is from Trinity College, Dublin; University College Dublin, and the National University of Ireland.She has extensively studied issues related to mandatory labeling systems of food ingredients in the E.U. as well as proposed single-state labeling systems similar to Proposition 105 in the United States.
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