Project: Archive of Agricultural Genetic Engineering and Society Interviewee: Glenn Davis Stone, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University Interviewers: Fred Gould, Todd Kuiken Videographer: Nic Beery Interview Date: January 24, 2017 Location: James B. Hunt, Jr. Library, NC State University Length: 1:25:50 Learn more at https://go.ncsu.edu/AAGES SEE FULL TRANSCRIPT AT: https://research.ncsu.edu/ges/files/2017/09/Stone_Glenn_20170124_transcript_final.pdf 00:02 - Introduction - Agricultural Engineering and Society 00:27 - Name, where you’re from and Role? 00:50 - What did you want to be when you were a kid? 02:20 - Could you explain the difference or similarity between archeology and anthropology? 03:11 - How did you wind up in this field of study? 06:26 - Can you talk about how you became interested in genetic engineering as a technology? 11:41 - Can we hear more about your working with these farmer’s and how they integrated genetically engineered cotton, and how they viewed what it was. 19:48 - How did you become an embedded anthropologist? 23:40 - You mentioned that you had industry on one side, GMO’s on the other side. Both saying they were speaking for the farmer. You could talk about the research questions you went in there with, in terms of being able to pull out what actually that farmer wanted? And did any responses surprise you? 30:40 - How did your farmer’s that were planting the BT cotton see those seeds and the technology? 35:35 - Government and university investment in agricultural technology goes back to the 1840’s in the US. What have you learned about industries contribution to agricultural farming from your work both in the US and other countries? 41:23 - Does the farmer care? Are research endeavors speaking for the farmer they are purported to be helping? 46:20 - Over the years of being embedded with different cultures and different farmer’s, have your views on the technology of genetic engineering changed at all? 55:23 - Can I ask you about the cotton as a pro pour cotton thing? Not in terms of nourishment, but in terms of health. In China there are a number of studies portraying it as decreasing the number of times that farmer’s wind up in the hospital at the end of the season from organic phosphate poisoning. Did you see any of that in your system and do you think that’s an accurate help to the farmer? 56:55 - Do you have any knowledge of the Chinese Studies? 57:40 - You know the story of BT eggplant. You se different sides in that context in terms of health and spraying, but also the idea that this is a trojan horse. What are your views on that? 01:00:00 - If you could make a graph of your career, from graduate school to now, how would you divide your career into different era’s? Also, where would you place the high’s and low’s of that? Finally, through out that graph and curve, if you ever thought you were going to be fired? 01:05:04 - Is there a particular debate within genetic that you participated in that you feel most strongly about. What went well in that debate, what surprised you, what do you wish would have gone differently, if anything? 01:12:20 - What’s a better way to have that discussion around the safety of a technology? 01:15:05 - Do you think there’s been a most significant moment in the history of genetic engineering in agriculture, and what do you think its impact has been? 01:20:15 - Do you have a solution to the public’s level of lack of trust of the government and health establishment and private companies? 01:21:15 - Was there anything you’d like to add? Is there anyone else you think we should be interviewing for this historical record? 01:22:00 - Is there a person that has very different views on GMO’s that you respect? And why?