Policy Analyst for the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit nonpartisan group funded by foundations and individuals, and Policy Director at the nonprofit International Center for Technology Assessment; former staff director of genetics and bioethics issues for the United Methodist Church (1981-2004), and has testified before Congress on many genetics issues
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