Farmers all over the world are breeding crops that can resist disease, enhance productivity, and have nutritional value. Better still, scientists are utilizing highly sophisticated methods for genetically modifying crops. Since the 1970s advances in gene-splicing and other aspects of biotechnology have upped the ante by dramatically improving agricultural products. Few topics inspired as much hysteria and misinformation as the advancement and dissemination of genetically modified foods (aka GMO’s). Is public resistance far out of synch with the potential risks? In this lecture sponsored by the Independent Institute in 2005, Henry Miller, co-author of the new book The Frankenfood Myth, and Bruce Ames, U.C. Berkeley professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, addresses these questions about this critical 21st century issue.