Ed brings one of the most diverse agriculture perspectives to the podcast to date. He is the former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 2 time governor of North Dakota, and he has led a multi-national consumer products business as well as many entrepreneurial start-ups. Ed played a pivotal role in many of the biggest agriculture events and movements of the 21st century. This week in Agriculture Adapts: Tackling the 2008 world food crisis; learnings for a safe & resilient global food system What it was like to build the USDA organic label and why it may be more "wishy washy" than you'd expect G.M.O.s are a spectrum, we can't bunch them all together and rule them out-- there is too much potential for good How silicon valley jumped the gun with ag-tech *** References mentioned in the episode 2007-08 world food price crisis Golden Rice - G.M.O.s and Vitamin A deficiency in developing countries