"What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether."
-Jeremy Rifkin
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"We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.“
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"I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course."
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"What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting."
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"Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies."
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"It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic."
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