From the Wisconsin academy -- Introduction to the scientific, political, and ethical dialogue on genetically modified organisms / Fredrick H. Buttel and Robert M. Goodman -- Telling the story / Daniel Charles -- Ending world hunger: the promise of biotechnology and the threat of antiscience zealotry / Norman E. Borlaug -- Questioning biotechnology's claims and imagining alternatives / Frederick Kirschenmann -- The genetically modified organism and genetically modified foods debate: why ethics matters / Jeffery Burkhardt -- Biotechnology and agriculture: a skeptical perspective / Vernon W. Ruttan -- Biodiversity and bioprospecting: conflicting worldviews / Lori P. Knowles -- Biotechnology and genetically modified foods: the role of environmental journalists / Richard Manning -- Adoption of agricultural biotechnology by Wisconsin farmers: recent evidence / Bradford L. Barham -- Don't ask, don't tell: U.S. policy on labeling of genetically engineered foods / Lydia Zepeda -- Off the farm: transportation, storage, and handeling issues / John Petty -- University ownership of patents: the Bayh-Dole act and using patents for the public good / Carl E. Gulbrandsen and Howard W. Bremer